Delta Police Reacts To Attack On Officers By Personnel Of Nigeria Airforce Attached To Airforce Base Jeddo

By Daniel Dafe

The Delta State Police Command has reacted to the attack of police officers by personnel of Nigeria Airforce attached to Airforce base Jeddo, Okpe Local Government Area, describing the incidence as an embarrassing situation between policemen attached to the Quick Response Squad of the Command and the said Airforce personnel.

This was contained in a statement on Wednesday signed by SP. Edafe Bright, Police Public Relations Officer, Delta State Command, Asaba.

According to the statement, “the personnel of Nigeria Airforce without any provocation attacked the policemen who were performing their lawful duty.”

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He continued: “On 11/2/2025, at about 1700 hours, operatives of Quick Response Squad (QRS) while on crime prevention patrol flagged down a Toyota Corolla car with reg. no. AKD-73-FL, but the occupants of the vehicle on sighting the police took to their heels which prompted the policemen to go after them, and arrested one of the suspects identified as Ibohama Precious aged 25yrs and recovered some weed suspected to be Indian hemp, Canadian loud and other hard drugs. While the Policemen were on their way to the station alongside the suspect and exhibit, upon getting to the Airforce checkpoint at Jeddo, they were stopped by the Airforce personnel and were told that they wouldn’t be allowed to proceed until they released the suspects they were carrying which the policemen vehemently resisted and subsequently, the Airforce personnel attacked the Policemen without justification.”

The police said “the Delta state Police command under the leadership of CP Olufemi Abaniwonda, the Nigeria Airforce, Navy, Army and other security agencies in the state have a cordial working relationship worthy of emulation and the incident is indeed an embarrassing one.”

“The Commissioner of Police Delta State CP Olufemi Abaniwonda and Airforce authorities are looking into the ugly incident and putting all modalities in place to forestall future occurrence of this embarrassing situation,” the statement concluded.