Police Operatives serving in Igbo-Eze North Police Division of the Enugu State Command and the NPF Special Forces, working with the Neighborhood Watch Group, on October 21, 2023, at about 10.45 p.m., neutralized a suspected IPOB/ESN subversive criminal at Igbele village by Amachala road in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, Daniel Ndukwe disclosed this in a statement on Sunday night and obtained by EnuguDaily.
The statement disclosed that one (1) pump action gun loaded with four (4) live cartridges, three (3) expended cartridges, objects suspected to be amulets, and one (1) black (inscribed “Special Constabulary”) and yellow-coloured beret each were recovered from the neutralized member of the outlawed group.
Ndukwe maintained that 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 statement said “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.
“Meanwhile, the CP, while commending the team for the job well done, has reassured the commitment of the Command to sustain the onslaught against unrepentant criminals”.
“He, therefore, entreats citizens of Enugu State to continue to support the Police”, Ndukwe added.
