Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting
The management of Ossiomo Power Company has raised concerns over what it described as the unjustified arrest of 10 private security personnel deployed to protect its multi-billion-naira property in Ologbo, Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State.
According to the company, the security personnel were arrested on Friday while on the company’s premises by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of the Ologbo Police Station.
A press statement by the management disclosed that Chief Johnson Asheleghe, and other unidentified mainly itsekiri persons had gone to the company premises with the mobile policemen from MOPOL 5 (Benin City) and ordered all the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) out of their duty posts, and arrested 10 of them in the process.
Only yesterday (Thursday), some itsekiri youths from the community prevented the Ossiomo Power Company attempt to restart electricity supply to Benin City and its environs.
The youths believed to be fronting for a Chinese firm known as Jiangsu Communication Clean Energy Technology Co. Ltd (CCETC), have since early November, 2025, forcefully and illegally disrupted the operations of the company’s gas plant, thereby preventing the Ossiomo Power Company from providing electricity power to its teeming customers.
It was further alleged that the policemen also drove away the bricklayers employed by the Ossiomo Power to work at its shopping mall.
“The DPO’s men and the Mobile Police from MOPOL 5 (Prince Johnson’s escorts) also broke down our gates, creating our fear that the absence of our security men will create the opportunity to vandalize and steal our property.
Effort to contact the Ologbo divisional police officer proved abortive.
But the police public relations officer, Edo State Police Command,
Please call the PPRO for possible comment or reaction
This is the number of the DPO 803 219 4839, Mr. Gideon Azuwonu
