Police launch manhunt as Delta activist goes on the run after assaulting BEDC staff

The Delta State Police Command has launched a manhunt for a self-acclaimed human right activist, Victor Ojei, aka WongBox.

Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe disclosed this in a statement sent to our correspondent in Warri on Friday.

According to Edafe, the suspect was arrested on 14th August, 2025, 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.

However, Edafe said the activist has since then refused to show up at the police station for further investigation.

He added, “It’s pertinent for the command to state the fact as follows:

“On the 29th of May 2025, at about 1100hours, staff of Benin Electrical distribution company (BEDC) went on official duty of disconnection of electricity supply from defaulting customers.

“On getting to the house of the suspect Victor Ojei (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), the compound was disconnected.

“The suspect, upon sighting the BEDC staff, rushed 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 fell, and Victor Ojei charged at her with the cutlass.

“In the attached video, the suspect Victor Ojei was heard visibly shouting at the BEDC staff, stating: 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 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.”