Police AIG orders investigation into murder of staff inside oil company in Anambraa

By Cyprian Ebele, Onitsha

The Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, zone 13, Ukpo, Anambra State, Godwin Iguh Eze, has reportedly ordered for discrete investigation into the alleged murder of a staff of Golden Oil Industries’ staff, Mr Frank kenechukwu.

It was gathered that the victim was killed  inside the company at Harbour Layout,  Odoekpe, Ogbaru Local Government Area.

He made the order based on the petition to him written by the elder brother to the deceased, Stephen Kenechukwu, on behalf of the bereaved family, pleading for the investigation.

In the petition, the family accused the staff of the company of masterminding the killing stating that the claim by some of them that he slumped and died on the fateful day, 11 May, 2026 at about 8am inside the company was false as he was hale and hearty when he left for work.

“Our investigation revealed that he was murdered about 5am on the fateful day when he went for night duty to return in the morning of the next day.We thank God that the AIG has ordered for discrete investigation to unravel the circumstances that led to his untimely demise.

“It could be recalled that on Monday 11 May, 2026 I received a sad news of his death when there was no satisfactory explanation as to what led to his demise.

“None of the family members was brought into the picture before his dead body was deposited in the mortuary at Borromeo hospital. When  I came to the company I was taken to the mortuary, low and behold, I discovered bruises on the dead body of my brother.

“Yet the company staff could not give me a convincing reason as to what led to his death and why are there bruises on his body.It looks very suspicious the way he was rushed to the mortuary without a qualified medical  confirmation of his death based on their claim that he collapsed while in the company’s premises in the presence of his colleagues.

“If the company had provided emergency assistance to take him to the nearest hospital for his resuscitation rather than rushing him to mortuary without any first aid administered to him to prove his death was natural,”

“we would have agreed it was natural but that will still not stop proper investigation,” the family stated.

In his own reaction, the chairman of a human rights group, Fundamental Rights League International(FRLI), Mike Umezulike,  condemned the position of the company staff that he collapsed

He  added that the first thing in such a situation is to rush the person to any hospital adding that a big company like this ought to produce first aid and not to rush to mortuary. 

“To have rushed him to the mortuary instead of hospital for a doctor to confirm him dead means there is more to it than meet the eyes,” he insisted.