The Delta State Police Command, on Friday, August 29, says it has rearrested one Victor Ojie, popularly known as Wong Box, a self-acclaimed human rights activist in the state.

State Police Public Relations Officer SP Bright Edafe, in a statement, said that Ojie, who earlier jumped bail, was in the command’s custody.

He disclosed that Ojie was earlier arrested on August 14 for multiple offences of assault occasioning harm, threat to life, and threatening violence contrary to Sections 355, 86, and 249 of the Criminal Code, and granted bail on the same date.

He said that the suspect has since refused to show up at the police station for further investigation, following which the police issued a statement that a manhunt had been launched against him.

A few hours after the statement, Edafe, in a terse message via WhatsApp, said that Ojie is now in custody and would be charged to court after investigation.

Giving background of what led to the arrest, Edafe stated, “It’s pertinent for the command to state the facts as follows:

“On the 29th of May 2025, at about 1100 hours, staff of Benin Electrical Distribution Company (BEDC) went on official duty of disconnection of electricity supply from defaulting customers, but on getting to the house of the suspect Victor Ojie (Wong Box) at Anyameluhor Street, Asaba, whose outstanding bill sums up to Four Million, Eight Hundred and Seventy Thousand, Seven Hundred and Eighty Naira (N4,870,780), was disconnected.

“The suspect, upon sighting the BEDC staff, rushed to them and attacked them with a cutlass (video attached), 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 BEDC staff member fell, and Victor Ojie charged at her with the cutlass. In the attached video, the suspect Victor Ojie was heard visibly shouting at the BEDC staff, stating the following: ‘Why will they disconnect his house’, ‘You don’t know where you came to? Did you ask questions?’ He ordered them to reconnect the light, ‘He called on one Maduka (surname unknown) to bring him an iron.’ ‘That he will burst their head,’ He said, ‘I go cut una’, He went inside and brought out a cutlass, shouting, ‘I will cut you’, 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 BEDC 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 BEDC staff members who was pregnant at the time of the incident was rushed to the hospital, where she was treated for over two weeks.”

Edafe reiterated that the Command, under the leadership of CP Olufemi Abaniwonda, had warned 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. In a follow-up message, he wrote: ‘Victor Ojie A.K.A. Wong Box now in custody and will be arraigned for the above stated offences soonest please’.” (Daily Sun)