AWKA—The
Divisional Police Officer for Ajali in Orumba North Local Government
Area of Anambra State (names withheld) had one of his ears chopped off
and was stripped Unclad for attempting to arrest members of a notorious
robbery gang.
The said DPO had led his team to the den of the nine-man gang that had been terrorising Nanka, also in Orumba North, for years.
Anambra
State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Awkuzu Okechukwu, said that
following a raid on Nanka community, Ifedilichukwu Nwankwo, Chidi
Nwankwo and Udoye Kenechukwu were arrested after previous attempts by
the police from Force CID, Abuja, and Zone 9 Headquarters, Umuahia, to
arrest them failed.
Parading members of the gang at the
headquarters of the State Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Awkuzu Okechukwu
said: “A team led by the DPO was ambushed at Nanka by the gang, when
they went to effect the arrest.
“The DPO was robbed of his
handset and money. He was stripped Unclad and one of his ears chopped
off. His official uniform was equally torn to shreds. The gang also
burnt down a police Hilux SUV.”
The police image maker added that the DPO, who narrowly escaped death, is currently receiving treatment in a hospital.
According
to the PPRO, several cases of armed robbery, kidnapping, rape and
assassination, were traced to the gang He added that it was for that
reason that the police detectives mobilised men to arrest the suspects
at Nanka.
Okechukwu said that it was Nwankwo’s gang that also
killed one Okechukwu Udezuka of Oraifite in Ekwusigo Local Government
Area and one Ebuka at Tarzan area of Nkpor, near Onitsha, in February 2,
2014.
He added that in the course of investigation of the
deaths, two suspects, Emmanuel Nwabudu and Chogozie Nweke, confessed
that Ifedilichukwu Nwankwo and his gang killed the victims.
He
said that every attempt by the police to arrest members of the gang
since then had not been successful until the attempt by the DPO. He said
with the arrest, Nanka community had been liberated.
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