Police describe it as “unexplainable”. Lawyers are demanding justice in the court of law. Civil society affirms it is nothing new as citizens are enraged in the murder of 28 year Oghenemine Ogidi in broad daylight by ASP Nuhu Usman on April 26 in Delta state.
For members of the Ogidi family of Ujevwu, Udu Local Government Area (LGA), who reside at 13E Ogedegbe Street, Warri, it was an affliction striking twice, in similar harsh measures. For them, it was an unbearable pain, too hard to imagine.
Struggling with the words to describe how hurting it feels, Ogidi’s mother, Mrs Campaign Stella Ogidi, lamented, “What have I done to the Police? Two of my children have been killed by the police. The police first killed my son in 2022. They have taken another one from me again. The first one they killed was the younger brother to the one they just took from me now. How do I survive this?”
Victory, elder brother to the deceased who was also called Mine, aka, OG Million (his entertainment name) added, “The equally extra judicial killing of my brother by the Police in 2022 was what led to my father’s death a month after.”
Horrific scenes
Mine walked the painful path unto untimely death in two horrific scenes. The first scene at the Effurun Motor Park, Uvwie LGA broke the internet in a viral video shared by an unidentified resident. That video may well be the overwhelming piece of evidence to prove a glaring case of extra judicial killing. Without it, critical stakeholders believe the Police authority could have twisted the culpability of ASP Usman, aka Ogbegbe and his four colleagues.
In the said video, Mine sat on the ground at the motor park, restrained with both legs tied, and his hands tied to the back. Shouting on top of his voice, he profusely begged the AK-47- wielding Usman led police team, in mufti, to spare his life.
The park authority had alerted ACP Shaba that they had found a barreta pistol and four rounds of ammunition in a consignment that was way-billed through the park logistics desk. Mine came to pick the consignment and the park officials held him bound waiting for police to pick him up.
ACP Shaba, the Area Commander, Effurun had drafted the five man surveillance team headed by Usman to go and bring in the suspect.
Police Public Relations Officer, Delta Command, SP Edafe Bright said, “From what we heard initially, as the suspect was handed over to him, he (Usman, tattooed in one arm) put him in their vehicle to take him away. Suddenly he took him out again. “Please don’t kill me. Officer, I will tell you everything. My friend in Sapele sent me to come and pick up the parcel. He deceived me. I’m innocent. I will take you to him. Please spare my life”, Mine pleaded endlessly, apparently sensing death lurking following his conversation with Usman in the vehicle.
Usman wouldn’t listen. With a gathering crowd watching, he shot at Mine. His AK-47 didn’t fire. A team member pulled his magazine from his own rifle and handed it to Ogbegbe. The team leader replaced his faulty magazine with his colleague’s. He cocked and fired at close range at the left arm of the restrained OG Million.
More horror followed
The shot fired at the park didn’t kill Mine from the video footage. Usman and his team then dragged him into their vehicle. More horror was waiting as they took him away.
Away from the prying recording cameras, behind the walls of the Area Command’s office, without having informed ACP Shaba, Usman finished off Mine with multiple gunshots.
Jolted by the shooting, the Area Commander came to find that the Surveillance Team leader he sent had killed the suspect he asked to be brought to him. “The instructions were very clear. Go and bring the suspect. So one wonders why a suspect who is not armed, who is already tied to his back, begging for his life, would be shot”, SP Bright wondered.
Twisted narrative on parcel movement
SP Bright’s account of the movement gave the impression that OG Million visited the Park to send the consignment, but facts of the video and report of the Park operators attest that he went for pickup.
Bright had explained that, “When CP Yemi Oyeniyi assumed duty as 24th Commissioner of Police, Delta state, he advised park owners and logistics companies on the need to search (verify) waybills (consignments) before letting them fly because drug peddlers and arms peddlers have started transporting these items through waybill. Having had that meeting with the CP, the parks had started checking waybills before allowing it to go.
“This young man came with a waybill. On checking that particular waybill, they found a barreta pistol with four rounds of live ammunition.”
Dismissing that narrative, Victory, elder brother to Mine, clarified, “My brother went to receive a
parcel from Sapele. He didn’t go there to send a parcel. None of us knew the person that sent the parcel. From the park video footage, Mine could also be heard pleading that the instruction to pick up the parcel came from a friend in Sapele who he was willing to show to the police if they could allow him”.
As one security expert noted, “Parcels’ screening are perfected at the level of shipping or sending, not at the point of pick. The park authorities’ discovery of a pistol which informed the distress call to the Area Commander is not adding up.
“The checks were supposed to be done from the destination the parcel was sent from. Who packaged the gun, from where and through which driver did it get to Effurun Park. Ordinarily, the receiver was supposed to show up, present identification and pick up his consignment and leave without going through any harassment.
“So, a lot needs to be done to unravel the secrets Usman was desperate to hide in killing OG Million. All those who are connected including the courier desk officer, the driver and sender need to be held accountable and the park operators must give no excuses in providing the driver who brought the parcel.”
A character known as Usman ‘Ogbegbe’
PPRO SP Bright said, “Before now, we’ve not had any record close to this kind of incident from him (ASP Usman). I’ve known him for over six years. We’ve never had a reason to believe he could exhibit this kind of behaviour. And by virtue of his rank, a 2-Star Officer, it is expected he knows what is right and wrong. He knows how a Police officer is trained as a professional. He ought to know what it means to respect human life and that was why he was chosen to lead the team to bring in the suspect.”
Aside this internal appraisal, the closest the public has heard of any unbecoming attitude of Usman was a social media outcry by a lady claiming to have had an encounter with the embattled officer in 2023 which ended in Usman extorting N50,000 from her for perceived indecent dressing.
Doubts he acted on own volition — SAN
The Delta Police Spokesman assumed Usman was under spiritual manipulation, but Kunle Edun, SAN, suspects he may have acted under inducement by other conspirators who pushed him into the unwarranted killing.
The Senior Advocate who has offered to provide legal representation pro bono in the fight for justice for the deceased and family stated; “The murder is suspicious. Was it done to cover up the identity of the owner of the gun or other things that we don’t know? Was Usman acting alone or on the authority of someone else. “The dastard, brutal, reckless killing of Ogidi is very traumatising and inhumane. Watching the video of the reckless murder makes me wonder if Usman ever had human blood flowing in his veins. What he did was murder in broad daylight in front of the office of the Area Commander, Effurun Area Command. There was no reason to shoot him (Mine) at all.”
Unsung hero yet unidentified
Despite SP Brights’s touching display of emotions to paint the killing by Ogbegbe as an isolated situation, activist Omoyele Sowore, rights lawyers Marshall Abubakar and other concerned citizens are having none of it.
Provoking public sympathy for the prime suspect and the Delta State Command, SP Bright, close to tears, said, “in my six years in police public relations, this is my most difficult moment. Having an incident that can’t be explained is very difficult.
“No explanation for this. This policeman, I just don’t get what was wrong with him. Police cannot attribute problems to spirituality, but that may not be far from it, because that’s the only explanation one can give to it.”
For Sowore, Marshall and others, the Effurun shooting was not uncommon in the Police. Many cases are hidden from the public. The only reason this gained prominence was the unsung hero who recorded the park shooting and pushed the video to activist Harrison Gwamishu who shared it and instantly went viral.
Sowore noted, “The police didn’t know who took the video, otherwise they could have killed the person also. That’s how wicked the Nigeria Police is. These things are not new. Police have been killing people extra judicially. That was what led to EndSARS.
“What you saw that day (Effurun) is what happens even here in Abuja. At the former SARS, there was a place called Abattoir, anybody they brought there would be shot immediately.”
Chief campaigner for pipeline surveillance contracts decentralization, Oliver Fejiro recalled, “The officer who led and personally shot the APO-6 in Abuja which caused international uproar is today an AIG of police.
“He wanted to date the girlfriend of one of the spare parts dealers but she refused. He saw them coming from the club one day, stopped them, branded them armed robbers and shot all the six persons on the spot. He was promoted after killing the spare parts dealers.”
The Police are not alone in the business of extra judicial killings. Minutes before crossover into 2026, at the Mount Zion Church, Ette, Ikot Abasi LGA, Akwa Ibom state, 13-year-old Timothy Daniel Monday had his head blown open with a rifle by a trigger-happy soldier.
“He died instantly, his brain splattered in a pool of blood. The soldier, among military personnel serving as private guards to an oil company, murdered the unarmed teenager for questioning the harassment of his 17 year old sister. Nothing was heard on the case thereafter, the killer was shielded by the army authority.
On October 12, 2025, another soldier stabbed Oghenekaro Ugochukwu Bonny to death at the gate of a private estate in Otokutu, Ughelli South LGA, Delta State during verbal exchange over security protocols at the gate. Army authorities labelled the deceased a criminal, but the estate host said he needed access to visit and the watching public knew he was innocent.
Meanwhile, Usman and his team have been dismissed from the police force after preliminary investigations and would be handed over for prosecution for their roles in the extrajudicial shooting.
New Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olatunju Disu is pulling all strings to ensure discipline and professionalism in the police force. He has already approved the dismissal of Nuhu Usman and his team as recommended by the Force Disciplinary committee that found the officers culpabable of gross misconduct and violation of Force Order 237, governing use of firearms.
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