Mrs. Ngozi Ogbodo, widow of 63 year-old retired soldier Christopher Ogbodo, who was brutally murdered at his workplace in Igboke Nike along the Nsukka Ugwogo Nike Road, has urged the police to speed up efforts to arrest and prosecute those responsible.
Speaking to journalists in Enugu on Thursday, she explained that her husband, who worked as a security guard at a petroleum station under construction, was killed on July 1.
Frustrated by the slow pace of the investigation, Mrs. Ogbodo criticized the police for failing to question or arrest the station manager and the station’s owner, demanding they be held accountable and provide information regarding the murder.
She expressed bitterness over the fact that the main suspects were still walking around freely, and appealed to the police to release her husband’s corpse for burial while the investigation continued.
Widow demands justice as 63 year old ex-soldier killed at Enugu site.
“I’m not happy over the delay in the investigation of the murder of my husband. The day he was murdered, the police 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 was arrested who was working at the station.
“The big question is, ‘Why is it that since the day my husband was killed, the station manger has not been arrested?’ 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? Is anything cooking that we don’t know about my husband’s death, which they are hiding from us?
“I want the police to do their discreet investigation into the murder of my husband. They should arrest everybody who was 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 their 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 police should do their job and bring those involved in the death of my husband to justice, no matter whose ox is gored,” Mrs Ogbodo lamented.
