A 58-year-old ex-soldier, Mr. Christopher Ogbodo, was murdered at his place of work at Igboke Nike along Nsukka-Ugwogo Nike road, leaving his family in shock and grief.
It was gathered that the late Ogbodo was a security guard at a petroleum station under construction, where he was murdered on July 1, 2025.
His widow, Mrs. Ngozi Ogbodo, who spoke to the media on Thursday, said she spoke with her husband on the phone on the same day he was murdered.
According to her, a few hours after he spoke with her, he was killed by unknown persons at the construction site.
She said after receiving the report of his gruesome murder, the police were alerted, and the case was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Homicide department for further investigation.
Mrs. Ogbodo, however, expressed frustration over the delay in the investigation, questioning why the station manager and the owner of the station have not been arrested or questioned by the police.
“I’m not happy over the delay in the investigation of the murder of my husband,” she said. “The big question is, why is it that since the day my husband was killed, the station manager has not been arrested?”
“The day he was murdered, police officers from Unity Police Station, Ibeagwu Nike, Enugu, came later at night and took his corpse to the morgue. From there, the case was transferred to the State CID Homicide department for further investigation. I learnt that a labourer working at the station was arrested,” she said.
“Why is it that the owner of the station under construction has not surfaced to meet with the family or be arrested by the police?” she questioned. “Is anything cooking that we don’t know about my husband’s death which they are hiding from us?”
She continued, “I want the police to do their discreet investigation into the murder of my husband. They should arrest everybody around the place, both the station manager and the unknown owner of the station. It is human life we are talking about, and not animals; even domestic animals have owners.
“I’m embittered that since July 1, 2025, when my husband was murdered in cold blood, the main suspects are walking around freely as if nothing happened.”
The widow is demanding that the police arrest everyone around the construction site, including the station manager and the owner, to provide detailed information about her husband’s murder.
“The police should do their job and bring those involved in the death of my husband to justice, no matter whose ox is gored,” she said.
Mrs. Ogbodo has also appealed to the police to release her husband’s corpse for burial while the investigation continues.
The case has raised questions about the safety of security guards and the need for increased protection for workers in the construction industry in Enugu State.
Efforts to reach the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Daniel Ndukwe, were unsuccessful, as calls and a text message seeking his response went unanswered.
The continued silence from the police and other security agencies in the state has left both the family and the public in uncertainty, with no clarity on the progress of the investigation.
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