US Activist Arnold Condemns Cop’s Killing of Delta Man Ogidi, Renews Call for State Policing
_By Secular Advocacy TV_News Desk | April 29, 2026 |
The fatal shooting of 28-year-old Mene Ogidi by a police officer in Effurun has drawn sharp condemnation from US Activist Mike Arnold, who described the incident as a consequence of Nigeria’s federal policing system.
A video circulating online shows Ogidi, a Delta man man from Effurun, kneeling with his hands tied and pleading with an officer. “Officer, I beg. I will tell you everything. I will carry you go the place,” Ogidi is heard saying. The officer, identified as ASP Nuhu Usman of the Effurun Area Command, first shot him in the leg before firing a second, fatal shot at close range.
Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Yemi Oyeniyi, confirmed that ASP Usman was arrested the same day and transferred to Abuja. The officer is facing a Force Disciplinary Committee and will be tried under Force Order 237, which governs the use of firearms. CP Oyeniyi also issued a public condolence to the victim’s family.
In a post on his official Facebook page tagged #EarthShaker, Mike Arnold said the killing reflects structural problems in Nigeria’s centralised police force. Arnold pointed out that Usman is not from Delta State or the South-South region, but a federal officer from far North posted to Effurun.
“Sixty-five years after independence, the federal government in Abuja still holds a constitutional monopoly on every uniform that walks the streets of Warri, Port Harcourt, Aba, Onitsha, Enugu, Owerri,” Arnold wrote.
He further argued that recruitment, posting, discipline, and accountability all run through Abuja, not through local elected officials. “A young Urhobo Christian was shot in the dirt by a federal officer… who answered to no governor, no local council, no traditional ruler,” he stated.
Arnold commended CP Oyeniyi for acting swiftly but said the video was crucial. “Without the video, Mene Ogidi is a ‘suspect shot resisting arrest’ in a press release nobody reads,” he wrote.
The Activist Arnold described the incident as a replica of “federal architecture doing what it was designed to do for sixty-five years: post outsiders into Christian Southern cities, give them federal weapons, hold them to federal discipline that the locals cannot see and cannot enforce.”
Concluding his post, Arnold further renewed calls for state police: “Until Nigeria has state police — answerable to governors, to communities, to the people they serve — the question is not whether this happens again. The question is when. And to whom.”