See Photos of the Police Station & Vehicle Burnt Down by Suspected Armed Robbers in Abia State

 

 

A Police post at Ahiaukwu Olokoro, in the Umuahia South local Government Area was on Tuesday at about 8pm, attacked and burnt down by hoodlums suspected to be armed robbers and drug dealers.

 

According to PUNCH Newspaper, the suspects who also burnt one operational vehicle attached to the police station, as well as one tricycle parked at the station, broke the windscreen of a Volkswagen car parked on the premises of the station.

 

While confirming the attack to correspondents, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Anthony Ogbizi, said complaints from the residents about the activities of criminals made the state command to create two posts in the area, adding that no life was lost and no arms were taken away from the station.

 

 

He said some policemen from, acting on a tip-off, had raided the Ahiaukwu Olokoro area and arrested four suspected drug dealers and armed robbers, adding that while officers in the post were about to transfer the suspects to the police division at Ubakala, the hoodlums attacked them and aided two of the suspects to escape.

 

Ogbizi said, “We created two nipping points in the dustbin area and Ahiaukwu Olokoro because the areas serve as escape routes for kidnappers. Criminals that smoke hemp and deal in hard drugs also use the Ahiaukwu Olokoro area as a safe haven.

 

 

 

He said the police were not deterred by the attack as they mobilised more men and arrested seven of the hoodlums who attacked the station.

 

 

“We will hunt down everyone involved and make sure that they face the law. We promise law abiding residents of the area that they will be adequately protected,” the CP said.