Sunday, August 24, 2025 - The spokesperson for the Delta State Police Command, SP Bright Edafe, has stated that police officers have the right to search people’s pockets and bags without a warrant.
The police imagemaker stated this via his X handle on
Saturday, August 23. He stated this while parading a suspected thief
caught with a firearm.
“Do the
police have the right to search you randomly without a search warrant? The
answer is yes; search you and not your houses or your phones. But to search
you, your bag, pockets, is allowed.
This chap
was standing at a club around 5am looking suspicious, when operatives of RRS
intercepted and searched him, and this gun was recovered. Listen to his reason
for taking the gun to the club,” he wrote
Edafe in the video he shared, recounted how operatives of
the Rapid Response Squad on visibility patrol around DBS Road, near Don and
Master, intercepted a young man carrying a bag in a suspicious manner.
“While
operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Delta State Police Command were
on their visibility patrol around DBS road, just by Don and Master, they saw
this young man carrying a bag, he was sighted in a suspicious manner, he was
intercepted and searched. When his bag was searched, this gun was found in his
bag, this is the magazine and these are the ammunitions that were recovered
from him.”he said
Edafe added that further investigation revealed that the
suspect, identified as 39-year-old Bassey Udoh from Akwa Ibom, had been
involved in stealing generators.
“Bassey Udoh
did not only have this in his possession. In the course of our investigation,
we discovered that he usually scale through the fence of people’s houses while
they’re sleeping and steals their generator. At times use the gate to come out
and or also take it out through the fence. The time of their operation are
usually between the hours of 4am and 5am,” Edafe added.
The suspect, who admitted he had been in Delta State for
three years, confessed to have entered about nine houses to steal generators
since he started the “business” two months ago.
“I’ve not
entered more than nine people’s houses. Some people buy the generator for
N40,000 or N35,000,” Udoh said.
When asked about the gun, he claimed he was not using it for
robbery but for showoff at a club.
“I was holding it, I did not use it to rob. It was for flexing at a club. I put it in my waist,” he said
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