The police in Enugu State, south-east Nigeria, said
they have killed four gunmen who were enforcing a
controversial one week sit-at-home order declared by
a faction of the outlawed Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB).
The police spokesperson in Enugu State, Daniel
Ndukwe, disclosed this in a statement on Friday
night.
One week sit-at-home
PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that Simon Ekpa,
the leader of Autopilot, a faction of the IPOB, had in
a statement on 14 June, announced that there would
be one week sit-at-home in the South-east.
Mr Ekpa, a self-acclaimed prime-minister of Biafra
Republic Government in Exile, said the sit-at-home
would hold from 3 to 5 July and continue from Friday
7 to 10 July.
He would later announce that Sunday 9 July had
been exempted from the sit-at-home days, to allow
residents of the region – which has a high population
of Christians – to worship their God.
But Emma Powerful, the spokesperson of the IPOB
faction led by Mr Kanu, later told PREMIUM TIMES
that the sit-at-home order did not emanate from the
group, but was declared by “criminals” seeking to
frustrate the release of Mr Kanu.
Since 3 July, there had been reports of shootings by
gunmen enforcing the civil action across the five
states in the region.
‘How the gunmen were killed’
Mr Ndukwe, a deputy superintendent of police, said
police operatives serving in Awkunanaw Divisional
Headquarters in the state had, on Friday morning,
dislodged the gunmen when the operatives
intercepted them attempting to snatch a minivan
vehicle from a driver along Agbani Road, Enugu
South Council Area.
The police spokesperson said the operatives foiled the
attempt by engaging the hoodlums in a shootout,
forcing them to abandon the vehicle and “narrowly
escaped with varying degrees of fatal gunshot
wounds, due to superior firepower of the operatives.”
He said the operatives subsequently recovered the
vehicle, which had blood stains on its seats and other
parts of the vehicle, adding that some arms and
ammunition were also recovered from the attackers
during the operation.
Mr Ndukwe said the operatives would later discover
and recover “bodies of four of the male hoodlums, in
a forest behind G. Ede Filling Station/Seven-Up, at
Awkunanaw, Enugu, where they escaped into.”
Awkunawan is a community in Enugu South Local
Government Area of the state.
The police spokesperson said the discovery of the
bodies followed an “intense manhunt” operation
launched by a combined team of security agencies.
One AK-47 rifle with a magazine loaded with 19 live
ammunition of 7.62 calibres and two bottles of petrol
bomb were among the items recovered from the
hoodlums during the operations, according to the
police.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Ahmed
Ammani, has reassured residents of Enugu State that
the police and other security agencies in the state
will not relent in their efforts to secure their lives
and property, Mr Ndukwe said.

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