Maurice Ogbonna, the cross-river commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), was discovered dead in a hotel in Calabar.
His officers, who had arrived to pick him up for a scheduled assignment, discovered him dead.
Irene Ugbo-Obase, the Cross River State Police Command’s spokesperson, confirmed the development and stated that a cause of death was being investigated.
Ogbonna, who was only recently in charge of the state when she was transferred to Cross River in August 2025, was not already in full charge.
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Marwa Mourns
In addition, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa, the agency’s Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, is present. Over the incident, Ogbonna’s family has been inpologise.
He claimed that the death report was brought to his attention in Borno State, where he was a participant in a head-of-agency retreat organized by the Federal Ministry of Justice.
Femi Babafemi, the agency’s spokesman, made this known in a statement released on Friday.
At 10 a.m., CN Ogbonna was supposed to lead his officers on some scheduled engagements. m. On September 18, 2025, his officers arrived at his hotel room in the company of the hotel staff, and they received numerous knocks at his door and calls to his phone line that remained unanswered.
According to Babafemi, one of the hotel staff’s unsuccessful attempts to force or open the door from the outside led to the discovery of the Commander’s lifeless body through a window that had to be opened by the hotel staff.
Alerted by law enforcement
He continued, “The police command in the state was immediately alerted, and the Commissioner of Police personally visited the scene while the police continued to investigate the cause of death.”
The agency’s Chairman/Chief Executive has since instructed ACGN Mathew Ewah, the Zonal Commander of Zone 14 of NDLEA, to relocate to Calabar in order to assist with the police investigation.
Source: Channels TV
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