SECURITY OPERATIVES ARREST IPOB/ESN MEMBERS WHO ATTACKED OMUMA AND NJABA POLICE STATIONS, RECOVER WEAPONS
Security operatives have arrested the IPOB/ESN members responsible for the attack on Omuma and Njaba police facilities.
Recall that security operatives, in a gun duel with the assailants on Saturday, repelled their attack on the police station. One of the suspects, Emmanuel Nnaji, a native of Awala in Ideato South LGA of Imo State, who sustained bullet wounds was also arrested.
Upon interrogation by the security operatives, the suspect revealed that a hotel located in Orlu was the hideout where the bandits sought refuge, planned, before they execute their nefarious activities on police facilities.
Emmanuel disclosed that the owner of the Hotel has been accommodating and assisting them financially. He led security operatives to the location of the hotel, and 26 suspects were arrested. The suspects include; seven females and 19 males.
Some of the ammunition recovered include, one AK-47 rifle with two magazines loaded with 55 rounds of live ammunition, 5 pump action guns, 2 double barrel cut to size guns, 4 double barrel locally-made pistols, 3 single barrel locally made pistols, 8 live cartridges, charms, 2 bags of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp, Biafran flag and beret, ESN cap, four pairs of army camouflage uniforms and a camouflage bag.
It is pertinent to mention that it was in the same hotel that the head of a young man was severed and placed on the road close to the hotel premises.
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In a statement by CSP Micheal Abbatam, investigation is ongoing and the suspects are undergoing interrogation.
One month ago, during heightened IPOB/ESN attacks and killing of police officers in the State, security operatives in the State arrested a certain Boniface Okeke, 57, from bor Autonomous Community in Orlu LGA of Imo State
On interrogation, he confessed to being a facilitator and financer of IPOB/ ESN Operation in the state to the tune of ten million Naira ( #10,000,000 ) while he was outside the country.
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