Delta State Police Respond to Video of Naval Officers Clashing with Police Over Arrest of Suspect with Banned Substances.

In response to a video that captured a free-for-all altercation between police officers from the Command’s Quick Response Squad and some Air Force soldiers from Air Force Base Jeddo in Okpe Local Government Area, the Delta State Police Command has responded.

The Nigerian Air Force members allegedly attacked the police officers who were carrying out their legal duties without any provocation, according to a statement made by SP Bright Edafe, the command spokeswoman.

Read what Edafe said below;

‘’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 event is embarrassing, he said, adding that the Nigeria Air Force, Navy, Army, Delta State Police command, led by CP Olufemi Abaniwonda, and other security services in the state have a friendly working relationship that should be emulated.

He went on to say that Air Force officials and Delta State Commissioner of Police CP Olufemi Abaniwonda are investigating the unpleasant incidence and putting all the necessary procedures in place to prevent this humiliating circumstance from happening again.

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