By Austin Ogwuda
…but silent on bribery allegations from those arrested during the new year mass arrest
The power of the social media, unarguably, cannot be underestimated.
Following the viral video showing a woman alleging that the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) attached to Jesse Police Division extorted N2.5 million from her to facilitate the release of her brother, the new Delta State Commissioner of Police (CP) Aina Adesola has ordered the removal of the DPO and arrest of another officer mentioned in the video.
This was confirmed in a press release by the Command’s Spokesman, Bright Edafe, a Superintendent of Police (SP) today (Friday).
Ironically, the new DPO who assumed office five days ago, has not reacted concerning the allegations of extortion levelled against some top officers of the command by some of those arrested on new year eve including serving members from sister Agencies – DSS, FRSC, Fire Service.
CP Aina Adesola
On the Jesse bribery scandal, Edafe stated in the press release that “After a careful examination of the video clip, the command wishes to state as follows:
“On the 1st of January 2026, the youth leader of Jesse community arrested some suspects and brought them to the Police station. Among the suspects was the narrator’s younger brother, later identified as Israel Onojeruo, aged 20 years. The suspect was arrested based on the confession of another suspect, Okoro Desmond, who stated that he sold a gun to Israel Onojeruo.
“Suspects were later transferred to the State Anti-Cult Unit (SACU) for further investigation. However, on the allegation of extortion levelled against the DPO and two other officers of Jesse division, the commissioner of Police, CP Aina Adesola, who is a community friendly Police officers, listened to the complaint and took immediate action.
“The CP ordered the AC X-Squad to investigate the allegation leveled against the officers. The Constable identified as Bright in the video has been detained at the command headquarters, and the DPO has been removed and deployed to the command headquarters pending the outcome of the investigation.
“The removal of DPO”, the release went on, “is in response to a series of complaints of extortion and unprofessionalism levelled against the DPO from different quarters.
“The CP assures members of the public that if, after investigation, the officers are found to have acted in an unprofessional manner, they will be decisively dealt with in accordance with the extant laws as stipulated in the Police Act and regulations to serve as a deterrent to others.
“The CP wishes to emphasise that the command under his leadership will not tolerate any form of extortion, intimidation, incivility to members of the public and unprofessionalism from officers in the command. He therefore urged that members of the public to reach the command complaint response unit numbers in cases of complaint against police action by calling the following Phone numbers
09011112311, 09155570008, 09064308018 and 09066575187″, stated the release.
