Police Command apprehends suspects for destroying Imo Police HQ

The Imo State Police Command on Friday disclosed that it had apprehended four suspects in connection with the destruction of Okigwe South Area Police Command Headquarters.

The State Commissioner of Police, Abutu Yaro, informed Top Naija on Friday that When the armed hoodlums left the station, some “unscrupulous youths of the community stormed the Area command building and looted the station’s arms and ammunition and later set it ablaze.”

Yaro stated that the development was part of his promise to reinforcing the security design of the state and to prevent more attacks on Police and other security agencies, Government and Private facilities in the state.

The State Commissioner declared that the Tactical unit together with the Quick Intervention Unit of the command apprehended the suspects in the Ehime Mbano axis of the state.

He said, “Operatives of the command deployed in Orieagu, in Ehime Mbano LGA to fish out the perpetrators and their partners in crime have arrested four notorious suspects in connection with the dastardly act. All the suspects were identified by a suspect one Onyedikachi Onneme, arrested by the Police in connection with the act.

“The suspects were responsible for the looting and setting ablaze the Area Command Headquarters located at Orieagu in Ehime Mbano LGA in of the state.

“Recall that on 26th April 2021, some armed hoodlums invaded and attacked Okigwe South Police Area Command where Five Policemen were gruesomely killed while others sustained injuries. When the armed hoodlums left the station, some unscrupulous youths of the community stormed the Area command building and looted the station’s arms and ammunition, and later set it ablaze.

“All the suspects are in Police custody undergoing discreet investigation with a view to arresting other members of their syndicate, so that they can be charged to court for prosecution, to serve as deterrence to others.”