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  • Police destroy gun making factory in Ebonyi

    The Ebonyi State Police Command said on Wednesday it has destroyed a gun making factory in the state.

    The police also recovered a cache of 146 prohibited firearms and assorted ammunitions that were hitherto in possession of unauthorised persons in the state.

    The state Commissioner of Police, Titus Lamorde, said the arms were recovered following the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, directive to all police commands and other formations to mop up illegal firearms and ammunitions in circulation nationwide.

    He said the Command set up a task force headed by a Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Criminal Investigation Department, Oyeyemi Oyediran.

    Lamorde said the police acting on a tip off destroyed a factory where guns were manufactured at Mgbo in Ohaukwu local government area of the state.

    “The Police acting on a tip off discovered an arms making factory in Mgbo and on getting there the owner ran away. But we recovered some of the locally made arms there,” he said.

    The police commissioner commended those who voluntarily surrendered their arms and urged others still with theirs to submit them immediately.

     

     

     

     

  • Robbers kill varsity student in Ebonyi

    The Ebonyi Police Command on Saturday confirmed that a student of Ebonyi State University (EBSU), Abakaliki, Chinedu Linus, was killed by gunmen on Friday.

    The Spokesperson of the command, ASP Loveth Odah, said the gunmen robbed Linus and subsequently killed him.

    Odah said no arrest had been made, adding that several operational units of the command were currently on manhunt for the hoodlums.

    “I urge students not to confront robbers or any person bearing arms whenever they are attacked because such a person was no longer normal.

    “It is only a living person that makes use of valuables as no amount of valuables in ones’ possession can equate to life,” she said.

    The police spokesperson also appealed to the relevant agencies to construct access roads to students’ hostels for easy rescue operation in case of attacks.

    “Our officers responded swiftly to the distress call by the students, but there was no road leading to the hostel where the incident occurred.

    “Our officers had to park their patrol vehicle on the main road and walk to the hostel where the corpse of the deceased was found and took it to the mortuary of Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki,” Odah added.

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  • Man kills two-year-old daughter in Ebonyi

    Man kills two-year-old daughter in Ebonyi

    The Ebonyi State Police Command on Monday confirmed the arrest of a 30-year-old man suspected to have killed his two-year-old daughter in the farm.

    The command’s spokesperson, ASP Loveth Odah, said in Abakaliki that the girl’s corpse had been taken to Mgbo Hospital morgue.

    Odah said investigations into the matter have commenced.

    She said the suspect, a native of Ukwu-Agba Mgbo in Ohaukwu local government area of the state, would be arraigned immediately the police complete investigation into the matter.

    “The act is condemnable and more regrettable is the high rate of brutal killings in Ebonyi. The suspect will soon be arraigned,’’ she said.

    Odah added that the command would bring to book all perpetrators of heinous acts in the state.

    A source close to the family said the suspect allegedly killed his daughter in the farm on September 6 and the act was detected by a good citizen.

    “The good citizen reported the matter to the Ohaukwu Police Division, which arrested the man and recovered the girl’s corpse.

    “The family and the community suspect that the act was for ritual purposes because he used his machete to cut the girl’s right leg.

    “The act shocked and threw the community into serious mourning because it was its first time of witnessing such act,” the source said.

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  • Ebonyi Police foils attack on station

    Ebonyi Police foils attack on station

    Ebonyi State police command says it foiled an attempt at the weekend by some suspected hoodlums to set a police station at Noyo in Ikwo local government area of the state on fire.

    The Commissioner of Police in the State, Peace Ibekwe-Abdallah said in a statement that all effort made by hoodlums to set the police station on fire was aborted by the policemen on duty.

    The statement read in part: “The gang who operated with AK47 rifles poured petrol and threw fire into the DPO’s Office before they were repelled by the superior fire power of officers on duty.

    “All the Officers and men at the Station are safe except a guard who sustained injury during the attack.

    “The Police had since after the incident began trailing the suspected hoodlums.”

    The CP enjoined members of the public to always provide useful information to the Police to enable them to carry out their operations effectively.