Categories: Benue news

End SARS: Idoma-born police officer, Emmanuel Ogboji murdered, body set on fire by hoodlums in Enugu

Emmanuel Ogboji, a police constable serving in Enugu State has been clubbed to death.

Ogboji, a native of Ugbokolo area of Okpokwu LGA of Benue State met his untimely death in the hand of hoodlums who hijacked the ongoing End SARS protest in the state.

IDOMA VOICE gathered that Ogboji, who was a Benue State Polytechnic student, Business Administration department was on his his way from work when their vehicle ran into the hoodlums who dragged him out, clubbed him to death and set his body ablaze.

His wife, Comfort confirmed this on Friday.

“My husband is dead. He was killed in Enugu,” the wife told a close friend of the husband amid tears.

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