Imo: How Eight Security Officers Were Lured To Their Death By A Fake Informant?

By Charles Igbo

Details of the story behind the gory killings of eight Security Operatives in Ehime-Mbano, Imo State, on Tuesday, September 19, 2023, by gunmen have emerged.

The Security Operatives who were on a joint operation were ambushed along the road, shot dead, their bodies burnt, and their two Hilux operational vehicles set on fire.

Giving Details of the blood- cuddling incident when Governor Hope Uzodinma visited the scene of the attack a couple of hours after it occured, the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Barde, said the Operatives which included Soldiers, Police, Civil Defence, were lured to their death by a fake informant.

He told the Governor that the informant, who turned out to be one of the gunmen, had called the unsuspecting Security Team, apparently to report a security breach which necessitated their intervention.

Unknown to them, they were being lured to their death. On their way to the fake venue of the security breach, said  Barde, they were ambushed and killed in a most gruesome manner when they came under a hell of gunfire by scores of gunmen.

An enraged Uzodinma has assured that the perpetrators will be fished out and given their deserved punishment.

The Inspector General of Police, Dr Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the Police to go after them and get them to face the law. He assured that they will be greeted by the full weight of the law.