Bloodbath Averted As Nigerian Airforce Personnel Attack Police In Delta

By Frank Oshanugor

A quick divine intervention prevented what would have been a bloody incident on Tuesday when some personnel of the Nigerian AirForce allegedly accosted operatives of Delta State Police Quick Response Squad who had arrested some suspected criminal elements.

ATLANTICNEWSONLINE sources said operatives of the two federal security agencies had found themselves in a battle of wits that would have resulted in fatality on either or both sides if not for the divine intervention and maturity on the police side.

Clarifying the issue on Wednesday, spokesman of the Delta State Police Command, Bright Edafe, a Superintendent of Police (SP) in a statement said: “The Command is aware of the embarrassing situation between Policemen attached to the Quick Response Squad of the Command and some Airforce personnel attached to Airforce base, Jeddo in Okpe Local government Area where the personnel of Nigeria Airforce without any provocation attacked the policemen who were performing their lawful duty.”

According to Edafe, “on 11th February, 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 from him.

“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 would not 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 spokesman added that 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 wondered why personnel of the AirForce should create such an embarrassing scenario.

Meanwhile, Edafe confirmed that the Commissioner of Police, Abaniwonda and Airforce authorities in Delta State have begun to look into the incident with a view to

putting all modalities in place to forestall future occurrence of this type of embarrassment to the federal government.