Shocking story of the murder of Benson Ogedegbe in Delta State by soldiers of the 19th Battalion.
Investigation revealed that members of the 19th Battalion have been working with, and protecting, criminal gangs in the area for years. Benson was a Chairman of a Vigilante Group, and a police informant, providing information on the criminal activities in the West Ethiope Area, and was murdered by the military for frustrating crime in the area.
We learned that a military officer in Delta State executed a police informant named Benson Ogedegbe, a resident of Ethiope West Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta State, without trial or just cause. Our sources, including police officers in the area, said Mr. Ogedegbe was on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 shot at close range in broad daylight by Lance Corporal Obinna of the 19th Battalion, stationed at the Koko Military Base in in Delta State.

Our police sources said several people witnessed the extra-judicial murder Mr. Ogedegbe early on Tuesday morning.

According to a senior police source, “Lance Corporal Obinna carried out this murder on the orders of his Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Umar.” Colonel Aminu Umar is also stationed at Koko Military Base. Also present during Mr. Ogedegbe’s extra-judicial execution was one Captain Femi and three other officers.

Several witnesses at the scene told us that Lance Corporal Obinna, Captain Femi, and three other military officials stalked Mr. Benson Ogedegbe on an expressway, stopped his car by shooting at it, pulled him out for severe beating before shooting him.

we obtained exclusive photos of Mr. Ogedegbe’s car with its windows shattered by gunfire. “We were there when the soldiers shot at the man’s car,” one witness said.