The Nigerian Airforce says it has commenced disciplinary procedures for its personnel involved in the clash with policemen on February 11, 2025, at Jeddo in Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State.
Director, Public Relations and Information headquarters of Nigerian Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Olusola Akinboyewa, made the disclosure in a statement released February 13, 2025.
He said the incident has been decisively addressed, adding that the commander of the concerned NAF unit, has engaged with the relevant police authorities in Delta State, to resolve the matter with a view to enhancing inter-agency understanding.
He noted that the injured police officers, have received the necessary medical attention, while the NAF personnel involved are undergoing disciplinary procedures in accordance with military regulations.
The Delta State Police Command, in a press release on February 12, described the altercation, which went viral on the internet as embarrassing.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP. Edafe Bright, in the press release, recounted: “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 Areaz where the personnel of the Nigeria Airforce without any provocation attacked the policemen who were performing their lawful duty.
“On 11/2/2025, at about 1700 hours, operatives of Quick Response Squad, while on crime prevention patrol flagged down a Toyota Corolla car with registration 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 25, and recovered some weed suspected to be Indian hemp, Canadian loud and other hard drugs.
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“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 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, 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.”
