By Austin Ogwuda
DELTA State Police command says it has launched a manhunt for Delta-based Human Rights Activist, Comrade Victor Ojie, popularly known as ‘Wong Box’ for jumping bail after he allegedly assaulted some workers of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDEC) on a disconnection exercise.
The Command’s Spokesperson, Bright Edafe, a Superintendent of Police SP disclosed this in a press statement on Friday, obtained by The Townhall.
According to the statement, “the suspect was arrested on the 14th August 2025 for multiple offences of assault occasioning harm, threat to life and threatening violence contrary to Section 355, 86 and 249 of the Criminal Code, and granted bail on the same date.
“The suspect has since refused to show up at the Police station for further investigation”.
The statement went on: “It is pertinent for the command to state the fact as follows:
“On the 29th of May 2025, at about 1100hours, Staff of Benin Electrical distribution company (B.E.D.C) went on official duty of disconnection of electricity supply from defaulting customers, but on getting to the house of the suspect Victor Ojei (Wong box) at Anyameluhor street, Asaba, whose outstanding bill sums up to Four Million, Eight Hundred and Seventy Thousand, Seven Hundred and Eighty Naira was disconnected.
“The suspect, upon sighting the B.E.D.C. staff, rushed to them and attacked them with a cutlass insisting that they must reconnect his compound. The technician, out of fear of being murdered by the suspect, reconnected the light. The suspect did not stop at that; he continued to threaten them and in the process, a pregnant B.E.D.C. fell, and Victor Ojei charged at her with the cutlass.
“In the attached video, the suspect Victor Ojei was heard visibly shouting at the B.E.D.C. staff, stating the following,
1. Why will they disconnect his house
2. You don’t know where you came to? Did you ask questions?
3. He ordered them to reconnect the light
4. He called on one Maduka (surname unknown) to bring him an iron.
5. That he will burst their head
6. He said, ‘I GO CUT UNA’
7. He went inside and brought out a cutlass, shouting, ‘I will cut you’
8. He stated again while holding the cutlass ‘ I go cut you, and nothing go happen’
He further stated that he is ‘Wong box of Delta state’, and next time, the B.E.D.C staff should ask questions, stating that he will tell them that he is a ‘politician’.
“It is also pertinent to state that one of the B.E.D.C. staff members who was pregnant at the time of the incident was rushed to the hospital, where she was treated for over two weeks.
“The Command under the leadership of CP Olufemi Abaniwonda wishes to reiterate that nobody is above the law, and the suspect is not an exception. The command will ensure that the suspect Victor Ojie A.K.A Wong box is rearrested and brought to justice”, the statement added.
