The Imo State Police Command, Operation Search and Flush Team, has arrested one suspected Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) member, Obumneke Gabriel.
The suspect, Imo Police authorities said, was believed to be among those terrorising motorists and people in that area.
Obumneke was arrested along Owerri/Umuahia Road of Imo State during a police routine stop and search operation.
The Imo State Commissioner of Police, CP Abutu Yaro, in a statement issued by the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Michael Abatham, said that the suspect who hails from Umueli Amaraku in Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo was arrested by the team made up of personnel of Police and NDLEA.
The Police boss said that the Command had embarked on the stop and search operation following information received that some of the remnants of the IPOB/ ESN group, after the decimation of their camps, were seen roving about, robbing innocent people on the road around Umueli Amaraku in Isiala Mbano LGA of Imo State.
He said that the team while conducting stop and search along Owerri/ Umuahia Road, arrested Obumneke Gabriel in possession of a locally made double barrel pistol loaded with ten ( 10 ) rounds of live cartridges and two expended cartridges, which were recovered from him.
The CP said that the suspect, when interrogated, confessed to being a member of the proscribed IPOB/ ESN group and had volunteered useful information that would lead to the arrest of his other members.
He said that investigation was ongoing and the Command was working tirelessly to neutralise other armed suspects in the state.
Yaro, therefore, directed the Command’s Operation Search and Flush to immediately embark on a vigorous and result oriented stop and search operation within the area.
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