Widow Of NSCDC Officer Beaten To Death By Abuja Police Wardens Speaks

Widow Narrates How Late Husband, NSCDC Assistant Superintendent Was Beaten To Death By Police In Abuja

Exclusive report by Punch Metro reporters Sunday Aborisade and Adelani Adepegba

A woman who witnessed the brutal murder of her husband in Abuja few days ago has narrated how he met his untimely death.

According to her, the late Assistant Superintendent of the NSCDC, who was attached to the Sharia Court in Abuja, was taking her to the Gloryland International School, Karu, where she works as a teacher, when the incident happened.

She said, “We were going to Karu from New Nyanya, but on getting to the Catholic church, we diverted. A traffic warden stopped the vehicles on the other side and asked vehicles on our side to move, but when it got to our turn, he stopped our car and my husband pleaded with him that he was late for work.

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“The traffic warden retorted that it was not his business, because he was not the cause of the traffic jam. He stood in front of the vehicle and said my husband wanted to hit him with the car.

“He kicked the vehicle and went to the driver’s side and was pulling my husband out of the vehicle. His (the traffic warden’s) colleague, Mr Idoko, also joined him and they were beating my husband with batons. I alighted from the vehicle and pleaded with them.

“They (traffic wardens) dragged my husband on the ground to their station. If you see his body in the mortuary, you will notice that his fingernails were chopped off and he bled to death.”

Ada added that while her husband was being taken away by the policemen, she went back to the vehicle to fetch the car key and his phones.

“By the time I got to their station, I found my husband sitting on the ground and unable to talk. All the policemen were insulting him, saying, ‘You are a stupid man; we hate civil defence corps officers, they are too stubborn’. They killed my husband in my presence, leaving me to cater for two children alone,” she noted.

The teacher explained that the policemen were not willing to take Ogah to the hospital, on the excuse that their vehicles had no fuel, adding that the deceased was not accepted at the Nyanya General Hospital, where they eventually took him to after a long delay.

She described her husband as a gentleman, adding that he avoided confrontation by all means.

The deceased’s elder brother, Mr Odi Jumbo, said he was informed that an autopsy would be conducted on Ogah’s corpse, which had been deposited in the Maitama General Hospital’s mortuary.

The accountant said eyewitnesses stated that the policemen wanted to cover up the case