UGM Attack on Enugu Police: CP Ammani Vows To Rid The State Of Criminals
Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, CP Ahmed Ammani, on Saturday, 19/11/2022, visited Agbani Roundabout in Agbani community of Nkanu West local government area, the scene of the attack and murder of three (3) Police Operatives performing stop-and-search duty, in the morning hours of the same date, by unknown armed hoodlums, numbering about fifteen , who operated in a Lexus Jeep and Toyota Tundra vehicles. The visit, amongst other things, was to enable him 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.
A release by the Enugu Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe stated that Preliminary investigation suggested that the same hoodlums might be responsible for the attack and shooting in the thigh of a Fueling 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 17th and 18th 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 Friday,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 neutralisation of two of the hoodlums, forcing the others to escape into nearby forest with severe degrees of gunshot wounds. Thereafter, the Team recovered one (1) AK-47 rifle and one (1) 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 stating that the Command will never be deterred in its quest to rid Enugu State of this 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 would stop at nothing in fishing out the criminals and putting to an end, the heinous and violent crimes of the unrepentant criminals.
Meanwhile, the police boss has enjoined citizens of the state to remain law-abiding, vigilant and assist the Command with credible information and intelligence required to fish out the criminal elements and contain general acts of crime and criminality in the State. The release made available, the Command’s emergency hotlines to effect the public link on: 08098880172, 08032003702, 08075390883 or 08086671202; or alternatively send emails to infoenugupolice@gmail.com.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Sam Udekwe is a journalist working in the News and Current Affairs department, Enugu State Broadcasting Service (ESBS) Enugu. He is well trained in all genres of journalistic venture.
Mr Sam read Mass Communication, graduating all with Distinction in National Diploma, Higher National Diploma and Postgraduate Diploma at IMT, Enugu and Madonna University, Okija, Anambra state, while he is presently on his M.Sc programme also in Mass Communication, at National Open University of Nigeria.
He is currently the NUJ Chairman, Enugu state.
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