On Saturday morning at a roundabout near the Agbani Divisional Police station three policemen of the Enugu State command have been shot dead by unknown gunmen at Agbani, headquarters of Nkanu West Local Government of the state.
According
to report, the police officers were on stop-and-search duty when the assailants
sighted them and immediately opened fire, bringing down the three security
operatives.
The attack
occurred less than 24 hours after a former Commissioner in the state and
Oji-River Local government’s chairman, Chief Gabriel Onuzulike and his elder
brother were killed at their Nkpokolo-Achi hometown by gunmen.
Meanwhile,
the State police command has disclosed that, following a distress call on the
incident, two assailants were intercepted and neutralized by a joint
Police/Army team.
This was
disclosed by Daniel Ndukwe, the state police spokesman.
He said
the team recovered an AK-47 rifle with two magazines loaded with ammunition, a
Toyota Land Cruiser Jeep belonging to the deceased victims, a Toyota Camry car
and a RAV4 Jeep.
Part of
his statement read: “Pending the receipt of a detailed report, kindly be
informed that preliminary report reveals that two (2) of the assailants, said
to have infiltrated into Oji-River from neighbouring Anambra State community,
in the evening hours of 18/11/2022, that attacked and murdered one Gabriel
Onuzulike (identified as former Chairman of Oji-River LGA and Commissioner in Enugu
State Government) and his brother at Nkpokolo-Achi in Oji-River LGA, were
neutralized by a Joint Police/Army Team, who swiftly responded to a distress
call on the incident and intercepted the hoodlums at Inyi community of the same
LGA, as they were escaping into Anambra State.”
Meanwhile,
the chase for the assailants, many of whom escaped into a nearby forest is
ongoing, he added.
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