According to reports, several commercial motorcycle riders in Ogwashi-Uku, the Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State, assassinated 45-year-old police inspector Festus Onori.
Reporters learned that the victim was lynched on Sunday while traveling to church with his wife and kids.
The inspector was traveling to church with his wife and three children when a commercial motorcycle driver struck their vehicle from behind in Okpanam, according to the deceased’s older brother Austin, who spoke on Monday.
.”My brother drove about one pole after the minor accident to park properly and came down to make sure that the motorcyclist and his passenger were unharmed, only for more than twenty men to chase him with sticks and clubs, forcing the deceased to run back into his car,” the man added. Motorcycle riders chased after my brother as he sped away out of fear of getting struck. They grew in number as they chased after him.
When he arrived in Marble Hill (Okpanam), he took a different route to the freeway in the hopes that they would lose heart and withdraw. When his car ran out of petrol on the Ogwashi-Uku-Kwale Expressway, look how they pursued him to the Ogwashi-Uku village while facing Kwale.
Then, in front of his wife and three kids, they lynched him to death.
“They also wrecked his car. According to the wife’s account, a bystander brought him to the Ogwashi-Uku Police Station before he was pronounced dead.
He claimed that the victim, a 45-year-old inspector at the Marine Police Station, Cable Point, Asaba, was killed.
He claims that the widow claimed that the motorcycle and his passenger, who struck the inspector’s car from behind in the earlier collision that killed her husband, were unharmed.
The state police public relations officer, DSP Bright Edafe, claimed to not have received any official information on the incident when contacted.
I have not received formal information regarding the incident, so I am unable to comment, he stated.