Family Of Murdered Guber Candidate Wants Killers Exposed

The family of the murdered candidate of the Citizens Popular Party (CPP) in Delta State, Chief Ogbe Onokpite, has urged police to unmask the killers operating in the state.
Onokpite, who contested the governorship election with  Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan  in 2006, was allegedly shot dead on Saturday November 26, 2011 by policemen at Beeland Hotel, Warri on allegation of gun-running.
However, lawyer to the Onokpite family, Mr. Odiana Eriata stated that the revelations from police investigation so far had revealed that a killer gang exists in the state.
Eriata, who was with Dino Onokpite, younger brother to the deceased CPP chieftain, at a press conference in Lagos yesterday, alleged that there were several attempts to cover up the extra-judicial killing of Onokpite by police personnel, led by one ASP Umara T. Ibrahim from Delta State police command.
He urged the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Muhammed Abubakar  to make every effort  to expose those behind several cases of assassination in Delta State.
Eriata said that powers that be in the state were alleged to have made attempts and series of maneuvers to cover up the murder of Onokpite, which culminated in the gruesome murder of British Egene and Orlando Owodo on July 17 this year.
He said Egene and Owodo were the two persons suspected to have set up late Onokpite while the car where guns were planted on Onokpite was said to belong to Owodo.
He stated that both Egene and Owodo were murdered in Bayelsa State shortly after an eyewitness in the killing of Onokpite, Mr. Gbenga Onasiji identified eight of the 11 policemen involved in the incident at an identification parade in Abuja.
 “We believe that the assassination of British Egene and Orlando Owodo in Bayelsa State on the 16 July 2012 could not have been a coincidence but planned to break the chain of investigation and information in order to frustrate the unraveling of the procurers of Ogbe Onokpite’s murder.
 “The police must expand its investigation to the owner of the vehicle that conveyed British Egene and Orlando Owodo on the day they killed them because the character was at the Beeland Hotel the day late Onokpite was killed”, Eriata said.
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