The Police on Wednesday, announced a major operational success, recorded by the Joint Security Patrol Team, Aguata Sector, in ongoing efforts at addressing the spate of crime in Anambra State.
This followed an armed confrontation by the Joint Security team, with a suspected secessionist armed gang on Tuesday, along the Ogboji–Ajalli Road in Orumba South Local Government Area of the state.
A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer in Anambra, Tochukwu Ikenga disclosed that during the operation, security operatives neutralised four members of the armed gang and recovered a cache of weapons, ammunition, explosive devices, and other incriminating items.
According to him, the recovered exhibits include one General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) with 53 rounds of linked live ammunition, two AK-47 rifles, two magazines, twenty-nine rounds of 7.62 x 39mm ammunition, thirteen rounds of 5.56mm ammunition, four undetonated Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), Police camouflage uniforms and accessories.
Others include one white Toyota Sienna bus with registration number KJA 919 KH (Lagos), ten Android phones, two feature phones, one laptop computer, one Point-of-Sale (POS) machine, two power banks, assorted charms, two live cartridges, ATM cards, a National Identification Card, and a Driver’s License belonging to identified individuals.
Ikenga said the operation was carried out during a visibility and confidence-building patrol following credible intelligence gathered over time concerning the movement of heavily armed suspected members of a secessionist armed group operating in the Toyota Sienna vehicle.
The statement read, “Preliminary investigations indicate that other members of the gang fled into the surrounding bushes with varying degrees of gunshot injuries. Consequently, the Joint Security Team has intensified its operations in the area, including extensive combing and search efforts to apprehend the fleeing suspects and recover additional weapons and operational equipment.”
The Anambra PPRO reiterated the commitment of the Command, in collaboration with other security agencies, to sustaining proactive, intelligence-led, and results-oriented operations against criminal elements that threaten the peace, safety, and security of residents across the State.
