The Police Command in Anambra State has arrested 34 suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra in connection with the killing of a police Inspector in Nnewi.

SP Haruna Mohammed, spokesman of the command made the disclosure in a statement on Saturday.

Haruna said that some personnel and a Divisional Police Officer were also wounded while a police patrol van was set ablaze.


The spokesman said that anti-riot Police Mobile Force, Counter Terrorism Unit, Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, EOD and Special Anti-Cult Unit Personnel and conventional police have been deployed to Nnewi and environs.

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Haruna said that on November 23 at about 11: 55am, there was intelligence report that members of IPOB were gathering near the Teaching Hospital, Owerri Road, Nnewi with intent to cause a breach of public peace.


He said following the report, the police patrol teams led by the Area Commander, Nnewi, ACP Nnanna Ama, mobilized to the scene to disperse and prevent them from causing a breakdown of law and order.

The spokesman explained that as soon as the team arrived, the IPOB members descended on them, set ablaze one patrol vehicle and attacked them with machetes and stones.


“They marched towards the Agbaedo Market shouting ‘No Elections without referendum’.

“The injured personnel were rushed to the hospital for medical attention. The Inspector was certified dead by a medical doctor while the DPO and the ASP are presently receiving treatment,” he said.

He said that the police joint team have commenced search operations for the recovery of two AK47 rifles and one Beretta Pistol with ammunition snatched from the slain Police Inspector and police officers.


Haruna said that efforts are on to arrest other fleeing members of the group and bring them to justice.

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The police spokesman urged members of the public to go about their lawful businesses and reminded them that IPOB remains a proscribed organisation and its’activities illegal.


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Who says Igbos are not terrorist

They are

It’s very sardonic

We are combating with two terrorist organization at the same time

Igbos and Boko Haram

OP/FTC.wehdon sir.its not easy to combat two different terrorist group at once.but OP can you give me the FTC?i need it pleassse.

My Igbo people keep looking for trouble.

See the mumu Zombies convulsing on every IBOP news in the last 24 hours, but we have not seen them anywhere close to the news of the Massacre of over 100 troops of the Nigerian Army by ISWAP Boko Haram.

amaniro:
My Igbo people keep looking for trouble.

Please rephrase

Igbos are not Igbos

Igbos are dementia sets of people

They are terrorist

baliyubla:
See the mumu Zombies convulsing on every IBOP news in the last 24 hours, but we have not seen them anywhere close to the news of the Massacre of over 100 troops of the Nigerian Army by ISWAP Boko Haram.

Ipob supporters are demented in reasoning

No erection no lefelendum

Yet still want atiku as president

Arrested!!! Now,now, what happen to those that killed over 50 soldiers?

Evablizin:
Arrested!!! Now,now, what happen to those that killed over 50 soldiers?

The attack on the military was planned to score political points

Our politicians are wicked

On Igbos they are not intelligent

They are miscreants

sarrki:

The attack on the military was planned to score political points
Our politicians are wicked
On Igbos they are not intelligent
They are miscreants

Like seriously?

Evablizin:
Arrested!!! Now,now, what happen to those that killed over 50 soldiers?

Yes, arrested. The same thing should happen to them and the terrorists who killed our soldiers.
Boko haram and Igbos are more ideologically similar than different.

sarrki:
Who says Igbos are not terrorist

They are

It’s very sardonic

We are combating with two terrorist organization at the same time

Igbos and Boko Haram

Where is the dead body of the police man and his name.?


Sarrki, you are one of the reasons why Buhari/Jubril is a failure.

But I saw in another post the same 'slain' police officer hiding inside the gutter and getting up when the storm was over
https://www.nairaland.com/4864487/policeman-inside-gutter-ipob-police#73253913

baliyubla:
See the mumu Zombies convulsing on every IBOP news in the last 24 hours, but we have not seen them anywhere close to the news of the Massacre of over 100 troops of the Nigerian Army by ISWAP Boko Haram.

thanks for calling my attention to the types of IPOB
I will make sure always differentiate btw then wen am using any of the two. >: