Gunmen on Wednesday killed two police inspectors when they
attacked the Obosi Police Station in Idemili North Local
Government Area of Anambra State.
The attack was launched around 11.30 pm, barely 24
hours after the newly appointed Commissioner of
Police for the state, Christopher Adetokumbo
Owolabi, resumed duty.
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Credible sources said the two police inspectors were
killed during a gun battle, while some AK47 rifles and
a large quantity of ammunition were carted away.
Police officials called the masterminds of the latest
attack in Anambra as “armed men”, but security
experts closely monitoring recent happenings in the
South fingered the Eastern Security Network (ESN),
the militant arm of the outlawed Indigenous People
of Biafra (IPOB).
A source confided that the assailants had also freed
all the suspected criminals locked in the cells at the
police station before setting the facility on fire.
“There was a serious gunfight between the invaders
and the police operatives at the station that lasted for
several minutes…The two inspectors that died during
the gun duel were targeted inside a non-functional
filling station close to the police station.
“They were firing shots in a move to repel the
gunmen from entering the police station but were
overpowered,” he said.
It was learnt that the attackers, armed with
sophisticated weapons besieged the station in a
convoy of about ten vehicles.
A security source who does not want to be named
said: “They opened fire while approaching the station
and sustained the onslaught to the extent that they
subdued the officers on ground, set the place ablaze
and also burnt one patrol vehicle.
“This is not the first time they are doing this and it
appears the South East is now the new battleground
and a killing field that is seamlessly degenerating into
a no-man’s land.
“Miscreants are having a field day committing
criminality and sadly, the governors and other
prominent people are finding it difficult to call them
out.
“The locals are also complicit in the terrible things
happening in the South East…They don’t want to
expose the criminals. Government must act fast
because, by the time they finish with police stations,
they would start attacking other security operatives,”
he said.
Our correspondent reports that the police in Anambra
have confirmed the killing of two of their personnel.
Spokesman for the command, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga,
said the new police commissioner had dispatched a
tactical team for an on the spot assessment of the
incident.
“The tactical team led by an assistant commissioner
of police was equally told to identify and apprehend
the hoodlums that perpetrated the attack,” he said.
Ikenga, who said that the bodies of the deceased
policemen have been deposited at a nearby morgue,
said investigations into the matter had begun.
…Similar attack in Ebonyi
Another policeman was killed when gunmen in the
early hours of Thursday invaded Obiozara Police
Station in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi
State.
The gunmen, who drove in a similar manner as their
partners in crime in Anambra invaded the station
around 3 am and set the office of the Divisional
Police Officer (DPO) and the admin building on fire.
A source within the area said that the main police
station at the LGA was burnt down during the
#EndSARS protest, forcing the officers and men of
the division to be using a temporary shelter which
was also burnt yesterday.
Ebonyi State Police spokesman, Loveth Odah,
confirmed the attack saying the gunmen invaded the
station in large numbers.
Policeman killed, another abducted in Ogun
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have reportedly
shot dead a policeman, abducted an officer and three
civilians.
It was gathered that the kidnappers abducted a civil
servant working with the ministry of agriculture and a
couple who wanted to establish a fish farm in the
state on Wednesday evening.
They were abducted at Ibara-Orile in Abeokuta North
Local Government Area of the state after killing one
of the policemen that served as a guard for the
farmers.
A source with the family of one of the victims told
our correspondent that the ministry asked the civil
servant to follow the couple who made a request for
an agricultural extension expert.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer
in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the
incident.
Oyeyemi said the team was ambushed by gunmen
through connivance with an insider.
He said the command had been on the matter and
would ensure the perpetrators were brought to book
and the victims rescued.
Abia varsity students kidnapped
An unknown number of students of Abia State
University, Uturu, were abducted by gunmen on
Wednesday night.
The students were taken hostage while travelling in a
bus along Okigwe-Uturu Road.
Commissioner for Information in the state, John Kalu,
confirmed the incident in a statement on Thursday.
“Preliminary information available to us showed that
the students were moving in a minivan from Okigwe
to Uturu between 7 pm and 8 pm when they ran into
the armed gang who marched them into the nearby
forest along with other yet-to-be-identified travellers.
“Two of the students managed to escape from the
hoodlums while others are still being held at a yet-to-
be-identified location.
“We are working with the government of Imo State
and relevant security agencies in both states to
ensure the rescue of the abducted students and
others,” he said.
“No criminal operating within our environment will be
allowed to escape justice as we take the job of
protecting the lives and property of Abians and
visitors to the state very seriously,” the commissioner
added.
Our correspondent reports that families of the
abducted students were in distress and earnestly
waiting to hear from the abductors.
“Nobody can tell whether our children are even alive
or not because their abductors have not said anything
yet,” one of the parents said.
“This is a trying moment for us and we are appealing
to governments at the state and federal level to act
fast,” another parent said.
Bandits kill 7 persons in Niger
Seven people have been reportedly killed by bandits
in Yangalu community in Magama Local Government
Area of Niger State.
The bandits reportedly invaded the community in
large numbers on motorcycles shooting sporadically
in the direction of the hapless people.
It was gathered that before living the community, the
bandits had destroyed properties and foodstuff.
The Chairman of Magama Local Government Area,
Sufiyanu Yahaya, who visited the community to
commiserate with the people on the development,
assured them that measures would be taken to
improve the security situation in the area.
Attacks by bandits are now a common phenomenon
in Niger as thousands of people have been displaced
and dozens of communities deserted. Hundreds of
women have turned widows while children have been
orphaned and out of school.
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello had cried out severally
for help which he said was not forthcoming the way
it should.
He had also expressed fears that Abuja might likely
be the next target if the needful was not done
considering that all the contiguous state around the
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are in dire straits.
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No unknown gunmen in south east we just know IPOB as gang of criminals and terrorist
Nyamiri vampires are drinking human blood instead of
alcoho

100% Ipob terrorist

The title of this news should be "a litany of security infractions in Nigeria". Evil people are real.

Nawaooo this is becoming too unbearable oo

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The title of this news should be "a litany of security infractions in Nigeria". Evil people are real.

This police station they are destroying (ipob) u know that if trouble
comes is desame police station they will run and hide

AnjolaDesign:
Again?

Dis IPOB youths De wanna destroy their lands like De wai boko
haram did to maidugri abi

Wahala!