By Okey Maduforo Awka
Lass than twenty four hours a legal practitioner and one other person were killed in Nanka Orumba North local government area the Anambra Police Command has neutralized two suspected gunmen at a check point in Isuofia, Aguata local government area.
However a security operational vehicle was burnt by the gunmen while a security operative during the resistance by the Police was injured in the process.
To this end the Anambra Police Commissioner Ikioye Orutugu assures that the Command will apprehend the perpetrators, as the act is viewed as a test of the collective resolve of Ndi Anambra working with security forces to dislodge the criminal elements in the State.
In a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer SP Tochikwu Ikenga;
“One of the Anambra Joint Security Team in the late evening of 15th May 2025 resisted an attack by armed criminals at the Security checkpoint in Isuofia”
“Two of the armed hoodlums were neutralized in the process. Regrettably, one of the security operatives was fatally wounded, while one of the security operational vehicles was burnt by the bandits”
“During the ensuing gun battle and due to the superior fire of the Joint security team, the criminals abandoned one of their operational vehicles, a Toyota Sienna and fled the scene”
“The Commissioner of Police *CP Ikioye Orutugu fwc MNIPS PhD* has condemned the act and viewed it as a test of Ndi Anambra’s collective resolve to work with the security forces to dislodge and eliminate criminal elements in the State. He assured that the Command will apprehend the perpetrators behind this unpatriotic act”
“Meanwhile, calm has returned to the area and security reinforced with more armed operatives currently combing nearby bushes for possible arrest of the fleeing miscreants” he said.
