Twenty-six suspected attackers of Omuma and Njaba Police Stations in Imo State have been arrested by the Tactical Team of Imo State Police Command.
The team had earlier on swiftly repelled the bandits’ attack in which one of the bandits identified as Emmanuel Nnaji, who hails from Awala in Ideator LGA was arrested with bullet wounds, while a Divisional Police Officer also lost his life.
In a statement issued on Monday by the Command Public Relations Officers, CSP Michael Abatham, the Commissioner of Police, CP Abutu Yaro, said that on interrogation by the command’s tactical teams, the suspect gave a vivid description of a hotel located in Orlu where they stayed, planned, before they carried out their dastardly act on the police stations.
According to the CP, the suspect said that the owner of the Hotel had been accommodating and assisting them financially.
The CP added that the suspect had volunteered information and led security forces to the location of the hotel where they arrested 26 suspects including seven females.
CP Yaro said that it was also discovered that it was the same hotel that the human head that was severed and placed on the road closed to the hotel adding that investigation into the matter was ongoing while the suspects were under going on interrogations.
Items recovered included one AK-47 rifle with two magazines loaded with 55 rounds of live ammunition, five pump action guns, two double-barrel cuts to size guns, four double-barrel locally made pistols and three single barrel locally-made pistols among others.
It would be recalled that the same incident occurred in the same Orlu, some months ago during the peak of IPOB/ ESN attacks and killing of Police officers including innocent citizens and burning of Police stations in the state.
Similarly, the command’s tactical teams and Special forces, after a diligent gathering of technical intelligence, had arrested a 57-year-old Boniface Okeke from Obor Autonomous Community in Orlu LGA of Imo State in connection with attacks on security agencies and private individuals where Police stations were burnt down and police officers killed in numbers.
The Police boss said that on interrogation, the suspect confessed of being a facilitator and financier of IPOB/ ESN operations in the state to the tune of ten million Naira (N10,000,000 ) while he was outside the country.
The CP said that the suspect had assisted the police in the arrest of some of their members and decimation of their Camps in the state.
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