Crime
ESN members broken out prison in 2021 attacked Imo police station, arrested
The Imo State Police Command has arrested some of the gunmen that attacked the Mbieri Police Station in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the state on Friday.
The command’s spokesman, Micheal Abattam, said Solomon Umunakwu and Uzoma Umunakwe, both natives of Mbieri in Mbaitoli LGA, are parts of those who masterminded the attack.
According to Abattam, the suspects are members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, are escapees of Imo Correctional Center following a jailbreak that occurred on April 5, 2021.
Others who were part of the attacks include, Kelechi Onuoma aka Ikaba and Kelvin Onuoma aka Alabalaba, both natives of Atta in Njaba LGA of Imo State.
“On searching the hideouts the following items were recovered; three locally made pistols, one cut to size gun, one Beretta pistol number NAF-P 3296, one dagger, four rounds of live cartridges, two police belts, one Eastern Security Network uniform, one black beret, one army camouflage scarf, two big sacks of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp and one iron saw blade. Meanwhile, the police operatives are on an aggressive manhunt for the fleeing hoodlums,” he said.
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