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Police Arrest 26 Sit-at-Home Enforcers in Imo (Photo)

Posted by Thandiubani on Thu 13th Jul, 2023 - tori.ng

The police spokesman in the state, Henry Okoye told reporters that the sit-at-home enforcers were arrested after a shootout with the police.

 
Police officers in Imo state have arrested 26 enforcers of the illegal sit-at-home order by some suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
 
According to the state police command, it also paraded 53 other suspects involved in criminal activities ranging from conspiracy, armed robbery, murder, defilement, kidnapping, child trafficking, unlawful possession of prohibited firearms, car snatching and vandalisation of electrical cables.
 
The police spokesman in the state, Henry Okoye told reporters that the sit-at-home enforcers were arrested after a shootout with the police at Irete community along Onitsha Road where they were illegally enforcing a sit-at-home order.
 
In the course of investigating criminal activities carried out by the 53 other suspects, a total of 32 assault guns, made up of two AK-47 rifles, 70 rounds of ammunition, five snatched but recovered vehicles, seven motorcycles were retrieved. 
 


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