INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE ORDERS MANHUNT FOR PERPETRATORS OF ATTACK ON POLICEMEN IN CROSS RIVER
The police image maker added that, four Police officers attached to Inspector General of Police(IGP) Intelligence Response Team (IRT) unit were seriously and grievously wounded, with deep matchet cuts on their heads and other parts of their bodies.
The detectives (the victims of the savage attack) are investigating a case of a stolen Toyota Sienna Bus earlier reported by the Master Chapel Church, a Pentecostal church based in Lagos. The detectives had, after a painstaking investigation, arrested four (4) male suspects – Peter, Ben, Ebuka and Johnson’, he said.
The statement added that, the suspects who were positively implicated in the crime by Police investigation, confessed to indeed stealing the vehicle, stating further that they had sold the vehicle to another criminal in Benue State.
‘Hence, detectives moved to Benue State with one of the suspects. On arrest of the suspect in Benue State, he stated that he had sold the vehicle to another notorious receiver of stolen goods based in Ogoja for a sum of N250, 000. With this discovery, the detectives proceeded straight to Cross River State, where the notorious receiver IKENGA was apprehended and the stolen vehicle recovered’,Mba explained.
Penpushing further reports that, in a bizarre twist, shortly after his arrest, the suspect raised an alarm in his native language which attracted his gang members, adding that subsequently, the policemen came under serious physical attack from weapon- wielding hoodlums.
The statement said, the officers were savagely butchered by these armed gangs, and consequently, Ikenga, the notorious crook escaped with the stolen vehicle.
The Inspector General while condemning the attack in very strong terms, warned that the Police under his watch will not tolerate criminal attacks and assault on its personnel or facilities, and enjoined traditional rulers and community leaders not to allow such attacks to take place in their domain as they may be called to account.
‘The IGP has therefore ordered for the immediate manhunt and arrest of Mr IKenga and other members of his gang. He also urged members of the public to avail the Police with credible and useful information that will lead to the apprehension of all persons involved in these unwholesome and illegal acts’.
