Not more than 48 hours after the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of research and planning, Moses Ambakina Jitoboh, had lectured police command n Delta and told them to be courageous, unknown gunmen shot sporadically, setting ablaze a police station in Delta state.
According to a release made available to journalists by the state police command public relations officer, Edafe Bright, the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba Usman through Jitoboh had told the officers not to hoodlums and miscreants harass them.
At the wee hours of Sunday, June 6, 2021, unknown gunmen stormed Ashaka, a community in Ndokwa East local government area, threw Improvised Explosive Device into the station, shot sporadically and set the police station on fire.
In a statement made available to Emerald News, Edafe Bright said the numbering about 20 in number also burnt one patrol vehicle. He said the police station was built by Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission DESOPADEC.
He, however, said no life was lost neither any ammunition taken away. H said in the midst of the atrocities being committed against the police, the force will not relent in ensuring that law and order is maintained in any community.
He added: “Unprovoked attacks on the police will not deter the police from providing the needed security in any community in Delta state. The hoodlums who perpetrated this dastardly act will certainly not go free, as serious efforts are on to arrest them and bring them to book.”
