6 bandits arrested in Imo are indigenes – Police
The Imo police command has identified six bandits arrested in the state as indigenes of Agwa in Oguta Local Government Area.
They are Mmadukaji Moses ‘m’ (30 ); Chigozie Amanyere m’ (21); Ifeanyi Uche, ‘m’ (21); Uzoma Uche ‘m’ (24); Sopuruchi Anumodu ‘m’ (24) and Chukwuma ‘m’ (30).
“In the course of interrogating the suspects, it was discoovered that they are all natives of Agwa,” said a police statement.
The police believe the suspects were responsible for attacking the Agwa Police division, where four policemen were killed recently.
One of the suspects, Mmadukaji, was arrested wearing a police vest that was suspected to belong to a slain police officer.
Michael Abattam, a chief superintendent and spokesperson for the command, said this in his statement.
Abattam said the police received “a distress call on 10/8/2022 at about 1040 hours, that some of the bandits that escaped arrest during the Izombe and Agwa raid conducted by the Command’s Tactical Teams.
The suspects, he said, regrouped and blocked the road
along Obudi Agwa, “stopping vehicles, searching the occupants and checking their phones to identify policemen in the vehicle for possible abduction.”
“The Command’s tactical teams immediately mobilized, joined by police operatives from Agwa Police Station, stormed the identified location at Obudi Agwa road, cordoned the area and arrested six bandits.”
Recovered from the criminals are weapons including “English-made automatic pump action gun, two locally-made pistols, twenty live cartridges and fourteen sharpened machetes.”
