A group of hoodlums who were enforcing the sit-at-home order have been dislodged by police operatives from Enugu State’s Awkunanaw Division.
In a statement, the Enugu police spokesperson, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, said that the police operatives intercepted the armed criminal elements attempting to snatch an ENTRACO-branded Sharon minivan from its driver.
He explained that the hoodlums were out to enforce the sit-at-home order by the outlawed IPOB but were overpowered by police operatives at One-Day Junction along Agbani Road in Enugu on Friday morning.
He continued by saying that the operatives engaged the hoodlums in a gun duel but they escaped with varying degrees of “fatal gunshot wounds”.
“A combined team of tactical Police Operatives of the Command have further discovered and recovered the lifeless bodies of four of the male hoodlums, in a forest behind G. Ede Filling Station/7-Up, at Awkunanaw, Enugu, where they escaped into,” he said.
“A thorough search conducted on the vehicle led to the recovery of one (1) AK-47 rifle with a magazine loaded with nineteen (19) live ammunition of 7.62 calibres, two (2) bottles of petrol bomb and other incriminating exhibits.”
The spokesman said Commissioner of Police Ahmed Ammani had commended the operatives and reaffirmed that the police and other security forces would remain focused.
He urged owners of medical facilities and residents of Awkunanaw, One-Day, Top-land and Achara Layout axis of Enugu “to promptly report to the police anyone, dead or alive, sighted with gunshot wounds”.