By Adadareporters
The Enugu State Police Command, Sunday, said its operatives killed a suspected IPOB ‘subversive criminal’ at Igbele in Igbo-Eze LGA of the state.
The operation was led by police operatives serving in Igbo-Eze North Police Division and the NPF Special Forces working with the neighbourhood watch group on October 21, 2023, at about 10.45pm, the state police command’s public relations officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, stated in a release.
Ndukwe said the suspect was neutralized at Igbele village by Amachala road in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area.
According to him, “One pump action gun loaded with four live cartridges, three expended cartridges, objects suspected to be amulets, and one black (inscribed “Special Constabulary”) and a yellow-coloured beret were recovered from the neutralized member of the outlawed group.
“The feat is consequent upon the operatives’ swift response to credible information on the wanton criminal activities of the renegades, who, in their numbers, blocked the road and opened fire on them.
“The operatives, however, tactically returned fire at a superior level, leaving many other members of the subversive criminal group escaping with varying degrees of gunshot wounds.”
The state commissioner of police, CP Kanayo Uzuegbu, has charged the operatives to up their game aimed at making the state unhabitable for crimes.
