How Delta State Police Command Shielded ‘Killer Cop’ ASP Nuhu Usman Despite Record Of Bribery, Extortion

The Delta State Police Command has been accused of aiding and abetting the criminal activities of ASP Nuhu Usman, whose recent extrajudicial murder of a bound suspect has sparked nationwide outrage.

Efemena Umukoro, the interim Delta State Coordinator of the Social Patriotic Youths Initiative and National Secretary of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), made the allegations while reacting to the controversial killing of Mene Ogidi in Effurun...READ FULL STORY; FROM THE SOURCE.

Ogidi was shot dead by ASP Usman, an officer attached to the Area Command in Effurun, despite being handcuffed and pleading for his life in a viral video that has sparked outrage across the country.

The activist revealed that the police command deliberately shielded Usman from justice despite a documented history of corruption and misconduct.

Speaking during an interview on News Central TV on Saturday, monitored by SaharaReporters, Umukoro described Usman as an “evil” that the police failed to destroy, which has now returned to haunt the institution.

The activist alleged that ASP Usman’s decision to gun down a bound suspect in Effurun was not an accidental discharge but a calculated move to “kill the line of investigation” and protect his own criminal interests.

The deceased suspect, who was seen in a viral video crying and promising to lead officers to a location in Sapele, was allegedly silenced because he knew too much about Usman’s past operations in the Jesse and Sapele axis.

“Nuhu worked in Jesse previously; Jesse has a close proximity to Sapele,” Umukoro explained.

“I guess that was the main reason Nuhu quickly killed him, because Nuhu knows that his crimes and criminality will be exposed since he has worked in that area and he tends to know too much in that area, hence this action of extrajudicial killing.”

Umukoro narrated a chilling backstory of Usman’s time in Jesse Town (Idjerhe), Ethiope West Local Government Area, where the officer allegedly engaged in massive extortion.

According to the activist, he had personally reported Usman to the Commissioner of Police after the officer and his superior, CSP Shinde Nwabueze (then DPO of Jesse), allegedly collected N2.5 million to release a suspect caught with a “cut to size gun.”

Giving further details of Nuhu’s criminal records, he said: “While Nuhu was in Jesse it was my complaint to the Commissioner of Police in Delta that took him from Jesse where he did a similar gun issue – he arrested somebody with a cut-to-size gun and then collected N2.5million himself and then Divisional Police Officer one CSP Shinde Nwabueze, to release the same suspect.

“Realising that the same suspect has a lot of money, Nuhu now went further to start extorting the family. While the suspect was in Police cell for seven days, the Chief Magistrate of Jesse Magistrate Court came to the station and demanded to see the cell. Interacting with the suspects and Shinde, demanded that Israel (Suspect) arrested for that offense should be released.

“When Nuhu and his DPO realised that they had already collected N2.5million releasing the suspect by the Magistrate would put them into trouble they now told the Magistrate that the case is for transfer to Asaba, the Delta State Command headquarters.

“That was why the family came to say you cannot transfer our brother to Asaba while we have given you N2.5 million. You must bring our N2.5 million before you will transfer our brother.”

Umukoro revealed that instead of being disciplined after his report, Usman was merely “transferred” from Jesse to the Delta Area Command in Effurun.

“That was the case I reported to the state command and they told me that Nuhu has been arrested unknown to me that when I left their station they transferred Nuhu from Jesse, and took him to Delta Area Command Effurun.

“That is why I will continue to say that the Nigerian Police aided Usman Nuhu to this offence,” he narrated.

Addressing the current status of the victim’s remains, Umukoro noted that the police are currently keeping the corpse at a government mortuary in Warri to prevent an escalation of tensions.

While the State Police Command has invited the family of the deceased for an autopsy, Umukoro insisted that the “safety” of the corpse does not erase the fact that the police hierarchy provided the enabling environment for a “killer cop” to thrive.

The revelations by the UPU National Secretary paint a grim picture of the Nigerian Police Force’s internal disciplinary mechanisms. Critics argue that the practice of “punitive transfers” — where rogue officers are simply moved to new jurisdictions instead of being dismissed and prosecuted — continues to endanger the lives of citizens.

As the Delta State Command struggles to manage the fallout of the latest extrajudicial killing, the spotlight remains firmly on why ASP Nuhu Usman was allowed to remain in uniform despite a trail of petitions and criminal allegations following him from Jesse to Effurun.