The Imo State Government has dismissed the story that unknown gunmen invaded and attacked the Imo State Secretariat on Port Harcourt road Wednesday, shooting sporadically and causing workers to scamper for safety.
It said there was no such incident involving unknown gunmen.
What happened, it said, was that the police trailed a suspect in a case to the Secretariat to effect his arrest in an alleged criminal matter.
It was in an attempt to effect the person’s arrest that the police fired warning shots.
In a statement, the Government said:
“Members of the public are, therefore, strongly advised to ignore any information linking the incident to unknown gunmen as there was nothing like that.
“Government also reassures Imo citizens of its willingness to do everything constitutionally possible to protect their lives and property, both at their homes and offices.”
Simon Ekpa, a self proclaimed disciple of the detained leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, had declared a one-week sit-at-home in the South-East, sending fears amongst the people of an imminent attack by gunmen.
