In the early hours of Friday, the Enugu State Police Command broke up a five-man gang that was trying to execute an unofficial sit-at-home order.
This was announced in Enugu on Friday night by DSP Daniel Ndukwe, the Command’s police public relations officer.
He recalled that earlier on the same day, the police had reported that members of the Awkunanaw Division of the Command had stopped the criminals as they were stealing an ENTRACO-branded Sharon minivan at gunpoint, engaged them in a gunfight, and taken them into custody at One-Day, Awkunanaw, Enugu.
Despite escaping with severe bullet wounds, a thorough examination of the car turned up an AK-47 rifle with a magazine filled with 19 live rounds of 7.62 calibers, two petrol bomb bottles, and other evidence that could have been used against them.
Nevertheless, the PPRP provided an update on the operation, stating: “Further to the earlier report on Police Operatives serving in Awkunanaw Division of the Command, dislodging armed subversive criminal elements, who attempted to enforce the illegal sit-at-home order, in the early hours of today, 07/07/2023, a combined team of tactical Police Operatives of the Command have further discovered and recovered the lifeless bodies of four (4) of the male
“The Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Ammani, has reaffirmed that the Police and other Security Forces in the State shall not desist in their efforts to ensure the highest level of security and safety of the law-abiding citizens as they go about their legitimate businesses.
He begs for their ongoing assistance, nevertheless.
