Delta State Police command has recorded yet another loss on Sunday as Ashaka Police station was burnt down.
It was gathered that about twenty armed men stormed the station in the early hours of Sunday, throwing Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) into the station, shot sporadically, before setting the police station ablaze.
In a statement released by the State’s Police spokesperson, DSP Bright Edafe, revealed that a patrol vehicle was also lost to fire in the attack while stating that no life was lost.
The statement read in part: “In the early hours of today 6/6/21 at about 0100hours, some enemies of the community and that of the police all armed men numbering about twenty stormed Ashaka police station, they threw IEDS at the station, shot sporadically, and set the police station that was built by the community/DESOPADEC ablaze, and also burnt down one patrol vehicle also bought for the police division by good people of the community just to ensure that police presence is not felt.
“It is pertinent to state that no life was lost and no arm was taken away. However, the police will not relent in ensuring that law and order is maintained in any community.
“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.”
He also revealed that the State’s Police Commissioner, CP Ari Muhammed Ali has issued a marching order to all tactical commanders, DPOs and men of the command to be on their toes, gather intelligence and take the battle to the den of criminals.
CP Ali also enjoined members of the public not to relent in providing any useful information that will assist the police in discharging its duties.
