Inspector Arrested After Son Allegedly Stabs Neighbour To Death Over Misunderstanding

By Babatunde Solanke

A police inspector named Ogbantu is currently cooling – off in one of the cells of the Delta State Police Command after his son stabbed a fellow resident to death following a misunderstanding at the Officers’ Barracks of the Warri Area Command of the Nigeria Police in the State

It was gathered that in the evening of Friday, September 22, 2023, the police son named as Destiny Ogbantu, a student of Madonna University, lost his temper and in the process allegedly stabbed a neighbour, one Onyebuchi Emeka, to death within the vicinity of their Block D, Warri Barracks apartments.

According to witnesses, following war of words between the duo, Destiny suddenly rushed to his father’s apartment upstairs and picked a knife and a dagger, and on coming down, chased Onyebuchi for a few moments across other blocks to the east end of the barracks, till he (Onyebuchi) fell into a gutter.

The witnesses said Onyebuchi was stabbed repeatedly at the back and deep into his chest by the Inspector’s son.

“All this was witnessed by residents of the barracks, including the mother of the alleged suspect and his siblings,” one of the witnesses, who would not want his name in print, said.

It was gathered that the victim was consequently rushed to a nearby private hospital by members of his family but was pronounced dead shortly after admission, having lost too much blood due to the veracity of the deep cuts.

Sources said that the mother of the suspected murderer, on seen the gravity of her son’s  action, “instantly rushed back to their apartment inside the barracks, packed all her children, including the suspect, and absconded from the barracks till this moment”, while their whereabouts are still unknown as of the time of filing this report.

But the father of the suspect, Inspector Ogbantu, is said to have been “arrested as proxy for his son’s action” and is currently in police custody.