In its war against crime and criminality, the Delta State Police Command has disclosed that it has arrested over 627 suspects and recovered 144 firearms, including 27 AK-47/AK-49 rifles, in one year.
The Commissioner of Police, Delta State Command, CP Abaniwonda Olufemi, disclosed this during press briefing at the police headquarters in Asaba on the achievements recorded by the Command from January 2025 to date.
“In line with the mandate of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, to ensure a safe, peaceful, and crime-free environment across the country, I have directed officers and men of the Delta State Police Command to remain proactive, professional, and fully committed to the protection of lives and property across the State.
“This commitment has, within the year under review, resulted in the arrest of over 627 suspects, recovery of 144 firearms, comprising 27 AK-47/AK-49 rifles, 25 Beretta pistols, 56 single-barreled and locally fabricated cut-to-size guns, 6,930 rounds of ammunition/cartridges, among others, significantly degrading the operational capacity of criminal elements.”
“The Command recorded the arrest of over 627 suspects, which includes one 140 suspected armed robbers,113 suspected kidnappers,125 murder suspects,187 suspected cultists, 62 suspects arrested for rape and defilement offences, and 36 million ransom recovered within the period under review.
“Within the period under review, the Command adopted a proactive, intelligence-driven and community-centred policing strategy, working with sister security agencies and community stakeholders (Vigilante, Anti-cult volunteers, PCRC, CSOs, traditional rulers,.. etc) to sustain targeted operations against criminal networks.”
CP Olufemi explained that the prime suspects in the murder of retired Justice Ifeoma Okogwu have been arrested.
According to him, following the gruesome murder of Justice Ifeoma Okogwu (Rtd), which occurred on the 24th of November 2025 at her residence, the command while acting on credible intelligence, on December 6, 2025, through the operatives attached to the Homicide Section, State CID, Asaba, arrested one Godwin Mngumi, 25, who is a security guard attached to the residence of the deceased.
He said the suspect was found in possession of one of the late Justice’s mobile phones and, upon interrogation, he made a voluntary confession and admitted to inviting his accomplice, one Nnaji Obalum, 21 years old, to perpetrate the crime.
“The suspects confessed that on November 23, 2025, they, alongside a third suspect currently at large, entered the home of the deceased, tied her with a rope and cloth, and murdered her. They thereafter stole her valuables, including two phones and a wristwatch, which they disposed of for a meagre sum. One of the stolen phones has been recovered in Ogbogonogo market, Asaba. Investigation is ongoing.”
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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