By Tony Adibe
The Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, CP Ahmed Ammani, has visited Agbani Roundabout in Agbani community of Nkanu West Local Government Area of the State.
NewsBits reports that the popular Agbani Roundabout, not far from Nkwo Agbani Market, was the scene of the attack and gruesome murder of three policemen performing their official stop-and-search duty, in the morning hours of the same date – 19/11/2023, by “armed hoodlums suspected to be IPOB/ESN renegades, numbering about fifteen who operated in a Lexus Jeep and Toyota Tundra vehicles.”
The visit, amongst other things, was to enable Mr. Ammani to assess and re-strategise towards further “containing the nefarious activities of the subversive criminal elements, following their recent attacks and gruesome murder of Security Operatives and innocent citizens of the State.”
The State Police Public Relations Officer, (PPRO), DSP Daniel Ndukwe, disclosed this in a press statement he issued.
Ndukwe, in the statement further said: “Preliminary investigation suggests that the same hoodlums are responsible for the attack and shooting in the thigh of a Filling Station manager, kidnapping of a male victim and snatching of another’s vehicle at different times, within the Ibagwa-Nike and Alulu-Nike axis of Enugu East LGA, on 17 and 18 November 2022”.
“Similarly, the Commissioner also visited Nkpokolo-Achi in Oji-River LGA, where a suspected network of the same subversive criminal elements, said to have infiltrated into the area from neighbouring Anambra State community, in the evening hours of 18/11/2022; attacked and murdered one Gabriel Onuzulike (m), identified as former Chairman of Oji-River LGA and Commissioner in the Enugu State Government, and his brother. They were, however pursued, intercepted, and engaged in a fierce gunfight at Inyi community of the same LGA, by a Joint Police/Army Team, as they were escaping back to Anambra State”.
“In the ensuing gun duel, the resilient and superior firepower of the Joint Operatives led to the neutralization of two of the hoodlums, forcing the others to escape into nearby forest with severe degrees of gunshot wounds. Thereafter, the Team recovered one AK-47 rifle and one pistol with several live ammunition, while the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado Jeep belonging to the deceased victims, a Toyota Camry car the assailants attempted to snatch from another victim and a RAV4 Jeep they used for the heinous criminal operation, two mobile phones, amongst other incriminating items”.
“Consequently, the Commissioner, while categorically stating that the Command will never be deterred in its quest to rid Enugu State of these manner of criminals, has ordered the maximum deployment of all the operational and intelligence resources of the Command to ensure that the renegades and other criminal elements operating in the State, are hunted down. He made it clear that the Command will stop at nothing in fishing out and putting to an end the heinous and violent crime of the unrepentant criminals.”
“Meanwhile, citizens of the State have been enjoined to remain law-abiding, vigilante and assist the Command with credible information and/or intelligence she requires to fish out the criminal elements and contain general acts of crime and criminality in the State. This they can do by calling the Command’s emergency hotlines on 08098880172, 08032003702, 08075390883 or 08086671202; or alternatively send emails to infoenugupolice@gmail.com”
