Following series of attacks on public facilities, including Police formations, and their attendant human and material losses by unknown gunmen, Security Agencies in Anambra state have upped the ante in their manhunt for the suspected criminal elements.
In the last five weeks, suspected hoodlums, had unleashed such brazen and audacious attacks on the Ogbaru Local Government Headquarters, Oba Police Divisional headquarters and Umunze Police formation among others, resulting in the death of some police operatives and the destruction of buildings and other Government properties.
The incessant attacks forced the authorities to establish a multi- agency-security team to take the battle to the criminal dens. This has already started yielding results.
The Police authorities, on Wednesday September, 25, 2024, informed that in the efforts to hunt down the criminal elements, it has arrested a major supply link of the hoodlums.
A statement by the Command’s Spokesperson, Tochukwu Ikenga SP, said a middle aged man suspected of being the major supplier of arms, food and other essential operational and logistical items to the criminals, is now cooling his heels in detention.
He noted that the suspect was apprehended following an intelligence- propelled operation by a detachment of the newly formed Joint Security Force in the Pole area of Aguata on Sunday September 22.
” The suspect ( names withheld) was carrying three bags of garri. Upon searching his belongings, the operatives uncovered a significant quantity of gunpowder hidden beneath the food items.
Preliminary information indicates that the suspect was on his way to a criminal camp to deliver provisions and gunpowder intended for the production of Improvised explosives for the gang.
He is currently in custody and assisting the police in apprehending other gang members.
In a related incident, operatives from the Special Anti-Cultism Squad SPACS, stormed a criminal hideout in Oba, Idemili South LGA, in the early hours of Wednesday, and arrested one Nelson Wisdom ,a male from Etsako East ,Edo state and confiscated a locally fabricated pistol along with two live rounds of ammunition.” the statement noted.
The State Commissioner of Police, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam, while appreciating the efforts of the Joint Security team in the battle against criminal elements, also assured that the Police Command will continue to accord priority to actionable intelligence.
The Police spokesman promised that all the suspects will be charged once investigations are completed.
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