A police officer on night duty was yesterday shot and firearms, ammunition carted away by gunmen who attacked the Isi-Uzo Divisional station at Ikem, Enugu State.
Sources from the area disclosed that the assailants stormed the unfenced police station at about 2am with a Toyota Sienna vehicle, shouting “Release Nnamdi Kanu,” “No Nnamdi Kanu, no peace”.
“They came through Eha-Amufu and left through the same axis but it’s not possible they got to Eha-Amufu township or crossed to Nkalagu, otherwise they would have encountered soldiers in that area. It’s possible they went through Aguamede to Benue state,” the source said.
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The divisional police station was attacked in the past by armed robbers who terrorised banks at Ikem and Eha-Amufu, resulting in the closure of banks in the area for over ten years.
The porous divisional police station is the only one in the whole of Isi-Uzo LGA with the closest at Obollo-Afor, a 30 kilometres distance.
The Enugu State Police Public Relations Officer, Daniel Ndukwe failed to pick up calls or reply messages sent to him for his reaction on the incident.