By Boss Akenzua (Asaba) with agencies reports

It was a bloody experience again for security agencies yesterday as some yet-to-be-identified gunmen killed two inspectors during an attack on Obosi Police Station, located in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State.

Another police officer was also killed by gunmen who invaded a police facility in Obiozara, Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. In Delta State, a policeman was slain and his weapons taken away.

While a man identified as Sadiq Oloyo was Thursday morning killed and many others injured after violence broke out at the Gengere area of Mile 12 in Kosofe, Lagos.

During the attack on Obosi Police Station, the perpetrators also destroyed Police vehicles and set the station ablaze before fleeing the scene.

Anambra State Police spokesperson, Ikenga Tochukwu confirmed the incident.

Tochukwu explained that the two officers sustained gunshot injuries during a shootout with the gunmen.

“Two of our officers sustained gunshot injuries, and as a result of that they paid the supreme price,” Tochukwu said.

He noted that the Anambra State Police Commissioner had deployed a crack team led by an assistant commissioner of Police to the scene of the crime to conduct an on-the-spot assessment and investigation into the incident.

On the frequent attacks on Police stations and officers in the state, Tockuwu said that threat analysis was ongoing to know the cause of such attacks.

He added that the attacks on stations in Anambra State were a call for more work in order to secure lives and properties in the state.

In Ebonyi, the gunmen were said to have invaded the station around 3 am, and burnt the office of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) and the administrative building.

It was learnt that the facility was put up as a temporary police station after the permanent one was burnt down during last year’s EndSARS protests against police brutality.

“I called one of the police officers who said they were attacked early this morning by 3am, one inspector was shot dead. They burnt two offices – that of the DPO and the admin office.

“They had burnt the main office during the #EndSARS, with some vehicles. They now relocated to another block around the station where this attack took place,” a source said.

At the time of this report, it could not be ascertained if the gunmen made away with any equipment belonging to the police.

Police spokesperson in the state, Loveth Odah, confirmed the attack.

She said the gunmen invaded the station in their numbers.

The latest attack comes five days after a police officer was killed in another attack on Abaomege police station in Onicha Local Government Area of the state.

The Federal High Court in Abakaliki was also attacked last week and set ablaze by hoodlums.

Two soldiers were also killed by gunmen at a police checkpoint in Afikpo last week.

Meanwhile, the Police in Lagos said, Oloyo, was stabbed to death by one Aliyu Shuaibu around 1am, which led to a reprisal by thugs loyal to him.

It was gathered that Thursday’s violence that saw hoodlums attacking motorists and commuters around the Mile 12 stretch of Ikorodu Road, was one of the series of clashes recorded in the neighbourhood since last week.

Unconfirmed reports claimed that at least five persons have been killed, including two from Thursday’s clash, since warring groups started engaging in street fights last Friday.

Although the reason Oloyo was stabbed could not be ascertained, clashes linked to supremacy tussle among cult groups, ticketing issues in the market as well as religious violence prompted by alleged blasphemy have been identified as reasons behind previous crises in the area.

It was gathered some of the hoodlums, who were wielding dangerous weapons, took the opportunity to dispossess road users of their valuables and inflicted body injuries on a lot of people.

It was learnt that it took the intervention of additional deployments of policemen and soldiers of Operation MESA to quell the unrest.

Narrating her experience, a witness, Tenibejiloju Aruwe said she escaped being mugged and robbed by the whiskers.

Reacting to the incident, the Police Command, in a statement confirmed Oloyo was killed but kept mute on the number of persons injured.

The spokesman for the command, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said 48 suspects were arrested, adding the Commissioner of Police (CP) Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered 24-hour surveillance in the area.

Adejobi said the police’ preliminary investigation revealed that Shauibu stabbed Oloyo and the latter died before medical attention could reach him.

“As a result of the incident, some hoodlums, on reprisal attack, went on rampage and caused commotion in the area.

“On the strength of this development, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, directed that additional men be deployed to the area to restore normalcy while 48 of them were arrest.

“The Police boss has ordered that the hoodlums should be made to face the full wrath of the law to serve as deterrent to others who might want to foment troubles in the state.

“CP Hakeem Odumosu has therefore affirmed that the command and other security agencies will adopt 24 hour patrol and surveillance in the area until the culprits involved in the crises are brought to book and total law and order restored in the entire area.

“The Commissioner of Police warned that the command will not tolerate any act of violence and lawlessness in any part of the state as all hands are on deck to suppress any criminal act within the ambit of the law,” he said.

Rampaging gunmen in Kwale community in Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State on Thursday allegedly killed a policeman in the area and made away with his gun after the victim was reportedly shot in the stomach.

Sources said the gunmen arrived at a checkpoint within Kwale, towards Ozoro Community, under the guise of being strangers when they allegedly attacked the policeman whose name could not be asertained as the time of writing this report but an eyewitness said that the gunmen arrived the scene where the policeman was seen alone and unleashed terrors on the victim who died on the spot.

Investigation revealed that Kwale community and its environs have been under siege of hoodlums many of them armed with AK-47s riffles among others and have allegedly killed several persons. The police have refused to say whether it was true but rather warned Journalists against falsehood.

Last week to date, Delta State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of no fewer than 120 suspected cultists, armed robbers and Kidnappers Including recovered from the Suspects various arms and ammunition disclosing that many of the Suspects have been arraigned in court for their offences

The State Police Commissioner Ari Mohammed Ali who spoke to our correspondent said that the police will not relent in their efforts to ensure that residents of the state sleep with their two eyes closed.

On the alleged killing of a policeman and his gun carted away from him, Ari Mohammadu Ali denied the story as untrue saying that such report was not to his knowledge adding that” We don’t have such story with us here.

It’s not true that a policeman was killed at checkpoint within Kwale community. I am not aware and the story is not true at all. Kwale community is peaceful and secured with its residents going about their normal duties please”

Source: DailyTimes