……….Assures Residents Of Adequate Security During The Season And Beyond.
FIC Report (Delta State) – The Delta State Police Command has assured residents of a hitch-free Christmas and New year celebration.
The Delta State Commissioner of Police CP. Olufemi Abaniwonda, has ordered massive deployment of Personnel across the state to provide adequate security before, during, and after the celebration to ensure the protection of all residents in the state and the success of all activities lined up to mark the celebration.
According to a press statement signed by the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer PPRO), SP. Edafe Bright ANIPR, the CP directed that all Area Commanders, DPOs, and Tactical Commanders identify and deploy men to all venues of celebrations and other resort centers to prevent mischief makers from showing their ugly faces and causing any form of mayhem to law-abiding citizens in the State.
The statement further indicated that Police Patrol teams have been drawn from Dragon Patrol, Safer Highways, Quick Response Squad, Rapid Response Squad, CP-SAT and Eagle-net Special Squad and deployed along Asaba/Onitsha Head Bridge, Anwai Campus Gate to Illah, Onicha Ugbo to Idumuje-Ugboko as well as the PTI, DSC Roundabout, just as officers have been deployed to Asaba – Agbor Expressway, Abraka to Eku Road and Asaba to Kwale/Ughelli Road.
Patrol teams from Abraka, Ughelli and Sapele Divisions respectively have also been deployed along Abraka, Eku, and Ughelli Express Roads.
The statement also revealed that massive deployment has also been made to all flash points within the Asaba Metropolis which includes Summit Junction, Inter-bau Roundabout, Federal Medical Centre Roundabout, Ibusa Junction by Nnebisi Road, Ogbe-Ogonogo Market, Government House Gate, Coker Junction, Ezenei/Osadenis Roundabout, Airport Junction and the Federal College Junction by Nnebisi Road, Asaba.
Traffic Control at the Head Bridge has equally been taken care of as both police personnel and traffic wardens have been deployed solely for the purpose of traffic control while the Divisional Police Officers ‘B’ and ‘C’ Divisions Asaba and the State Traffic Officer have been tasked with the responsibilities of working with other security agencies to ensure free flow of traffic and effective supervision of Police and traffic personnel deployed.
The DPOs Ekpan and Ebrumede Divisions have been directed to ensure adequate security in Warri, Effurun and its environs and to ensure that there is free flow of traffic in the ever busy DSC and Effurun Roundabouts.
The CP also ordered the deployment of marine Police along the water ways to checkmate the activities of Sea pirates and illegal bunkerers with particular attention on Escravos, Burutu and Warri waterways with a view to ensuring the protection of traders and travellers along the water ways.
The Command’s statement also emphasized that the CP has mandated the Deputy Commissioner of Police incharge Operation DCP Olumuyiwa Adejobi to organize Continuous ‘OPERATION SHOW OF FORCE’ with effect from Sunday 21st December 2025 across the State.
The CP urged members of the public to be law abiding and continue to support the police in the fight against crime and criminalities while assuring them of the Command’s commitment in providing security, maintenance of law and protection of lives and property among other duties in the State.
The CP on behalf of officers and men of Command wished Deltans and Nigerians in general a hitch free celebration.
Signed
Felix Ijomah
FIC Asaba Delta State
22nd December, 2025
