A dismissed Policeman, Christian Ogwu has confessed that he shot dead his girlfriend’s mother for preventing him from marrying her daughter. Ogwu, a native of Afor Town, Ndokwa East Local Government Area of Delta State, fled to Port Harcourt, Rivers State after he shot Venorica, 45 with a locally made pistol in front of her children at their residence in Otolokpo community in Ika North Local Government Area of the State.
He told Cornerstone news that he killed the woman for preventing his girlfriend from marrying him and at the same time encouraging her to abort the three months old pregnancy she had for him. He said he enlisted into the Nigeria Police Force in the year, 2000, but was dismissed after robbers stole a smoke gun that was assigned to him. He said: “My Force number was 371416 and I was trained at the Police College Ikeja, Lagos. I was posted to Ehor Police division at the Edo State Police Command, where I served for five years before I was dismissed because two robbers operating on a motorbike snatched the smoke pistol assigned to me at a checkpoint”.
Christiano as he is fondly called ,said he joined a fraud syndicate in Asaba , after he lost his police job and his role was to act like a serving Assistant Superintendent of Police ( ASP) working at the Force Headquarters Abuja : “I joined a fraud syndicate operating in Asaba Delta State and the man who introduced me to the syndicate taught me all the tricks and I became a professional fraudster and started using my experience as an ex-policeman to defraud people. ” I adopted the rank of a Superintendent of Police and people started coming to me for assistance.
Some policemen who were looking for promotions came to me for help because I told them I was working in IGP’s office, Abuja and they were paying me money. Those who wanted to be recruited into the police constable rank also came to me and I usually demanded N150,000 as my fee while those who wanted the Cadet level paid me the sum of N400,000. I succeeded in some cases and where I failed I would keep the victims on hold. They all thought I was a genuine policeman. I also used my position as a fake policeman to smuggle drugs to Ilorin, Kwara State and in some cases I would tell people that I was working for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC).
“I met my girlfriend In the course of doing my fraudulent business. Her name is Blessing Obijeogo at Ogwashi -Uku Polytechnic Delta State, where she was a student. She told me she was single and we started a relationship and in the process she became pregnant but she aborted the pregnancy. She told me that she could not have a child for me because I wasn’t known to her family. So, in April 2018, I went for a formal introduction and her family asked me to come back for a more elaborate introduction ceremony after which they would issue me the list of items to be brought for marriage.
” On September 7, 2018, I went again with my family and we had the ceremony and I got the list. In October of that same year, she informed me that she was pregnant and I told her that we would have to hurry up the marriage. We then fixed on December 27, 2018, as the date of the marriage while I gave her money to buy the clothes for the wedding. “She got clothes which included mine.on December 5, 2018, she called me and said she was on her way to Asaba, where I resided and after waiting for her for a long time, I started calling her but she wasn’t picking her calls. Then one of her brothers, Friday informed me that Blessing was sick and she was at the hospital in Asaba with her mother and that she developed complications from an abortion she had. I went to the hospital but the doctor denied me access to Blessing and her mother.
Then one my brothers called and told me that Blessing informed him that she had a miscarriage, and it was then I noticed that something was fishy. When I called her to know what was going, she said she was in Asaba in her friend’s place. I went there, waited all day without seeing her and on December 21, 2018, she called me again informing me that she had traveled to Lagos. I then became very angry and confused believing that blessing and her mother took me for a fool and I was determined to deal with them. I then asked one of my friends known as Steven to get me a gun with two live cartridges and paid him N10,000. On December 26, 2018, which was supposed to be the eve of our marriage, I went to Blessing’s village and was told she was in town but when I called her she said she was in Lagos. I then went to a shop close to her house where I bought a bottle of dry gin and some tramadol tablets which I took.
After taking the drugs and gin, I saw my girl’s mother and her younger brother walking towards my direction. I shot Blessing’s mother and watched her die and I zoomed off on the bike I rode to the place. I then dropped the gun with my sister in Oriegoh and fled to Rivers State where I was arrested “. Ogwu was arrested by operatives of the Inspector – General of Police Intelligence Response Team ( IRT), led by DCP Abba Kyari, following a petition to the IGP by the deceased’s family. A police source said, in an effort to get justice over the murder, the family of the deceased petitioned the IGP, Adamu Mohammed, when it became difficult for the police in Delta State, to arrest the suspect.
He said, the IGP, directed Kyari, to go after the suspect and bring him to book. The operatives, however, visited Afor community, where they spoke with some of his relatives who disclosed that they had not heard or seen him since he committed the crime, but they gave the operatives some vital information which aided his arrest at a commercial bank in Port Harcourt, five months later. When Christian, who showed no remorse for the crime he committed, was arrested, he accused the deceased of encouraging his fiancee to abort the three months pregnancy she had for him as well as canceling their marriage ceremony fixed for December 27, 2018. Christian said he got so frustrated and was angry with his fiancee and her mother and wanted to kill both of them because they betrayed and defrauded him having spent so much money on them.
