The Beretta pistol that killed Mena Ogidi started its journey in Imo State with a man named Amadi Felix. He sold it for N200,000 to Amadi Princewill. That was the first transaction.
Princewill did not keep the gun. He resold it to Emmanuel Chukwuemeka for N290,000, pocketing a N90,000 profit. That was the second transaction.
Chukwuemeka then sold the same pistol to a man called Desmond for N380,000. That was the third transaction. By this point, the gun had changed hands three times and accumulated a paper value of N870,000. But Desmond did not want the gun for himself. He wanted it sent to Sapele, a town in Delta State. To make that happen, he needed someone to carry the parcel.
That person was Oghenemine Ogidi, a 28-year-old known as Mena.
Mena was not a gunrunner. Police later confirmed that he was simply the person asked to collect the parcel from a commercial motor park in Effurun and send it to Sapele. He was a courier, likely unaware of how many hands the Beretta had passed through or the value of what he was carrying.
On April 26, 2026, Mena arrived at the motor park in Effurun with the parcel. Inside was the Beretta pistol and four rounds of live ammunition.
What happened next has been documented in a viral video that shocked the country. Before Mena even arrived, police at the park had already received intelligence about a suspicious package. Officers were alarmed. They were waiting. Assistant Superintendent of Police Usman Nuhu was among them.
When Mena appeared, they intercepted him. The video shows Mena pleading with ASP Nuhu to help identify the sender of the package. He was begging, trying to explain that he was only a messenger, that he did not know who truly owned the gun. The officer did not listen. He fired. Mena fell and died at the scene.
The killing did not go quietly. The video spread quickly. Outrage followed. Questions arose about how a Beretta pistol could travel through multiple states and multiple hands without being stopped, and how a young man pleading for his life could still be shot by a police officer.
The Delta State Police Command launched an investigation. It took 44 days.
On May 4, 2026, operatives arrested Emmanuel Chukwuemeka in Bayelsa State. He was found alongside a friend and roommate whose phone Chukwuemeka had used to communicate when purchasing the gun. During questioning, Chukwuemeka confessed.
He said he bought the pistol from Amadi Princewill for N290,000 and sold it to Desmond for N380,000. He also revealed that Desmond was the one who contacted Mena to collect the parcel in Effurun.
With that confession, police traced Amadi Princewill. On May 15, 2026, he was arrested in Imo State. Princewill told investigators that he had bought the same gun from Amadi Felix for N200,000.
Police then tracked Amadi Felix. On May 16, 2026, he was arrested in Owerri, Imo State.
All four arrested suspects, the police commissioner later disclosed, are members of the Black Axe confraternity. A fifth suspect, Desmond, remains at large. Police say efforts are ongoing to arrest him.
On Monday, Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Olufemi Abaniwonda Oyeniyi, announced the arrests and gave the public the full account of how the pistol moved from hand to hand. He confirmed that the suspects would be charged to court once investigations are concluded.
The Beretta has been recovered. Four men are in custody. One man is still being hunted. And Mena Ogidi, who walked into a motor park carrying a parcel, is gone. He was 28 years old. He pleaded for his life on camera. The officer shot him anyway. That is the end of the journey for the Beretta that was sold three times and the whose hands it was last found.
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