By Ebinum Samuel
The Delta State police command has condemned the attack on police operatives attached to the Quick Response Squad of the Command by Airforce personnel attached to Airforce base Jeddo in Okpe Local government Area.
The spokesman of the command, SP Edafe Bright disclosed that the Airforce personnel attacked his men who were performing their lawful duty
According to him on Monday this week, at about 1700 hours, operatives of Quick Response Squad (QRS) while on crime prevention patrol flagged down a Toyota Corolla car with plate number 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 weeds suspected to be Indian hemp. Also recovered by the operatives were Canadian loud and other hard drugs. Edafe said While the Policemen were on their way to the station alongside the suspects 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 with them. This, the policemen vehemently resisted and subsequently, the Airforce personnel attacked the Policemen without any justification.
“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”
He disclosed that the Commissioner of Police and the Airforce are looking into the ugly incident and putting all modalities in place to forestall any future occurrences