Gunmen in the early hours of Tuesday, 3 September, 2024 attacked a police station in Oba, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state killing a police corporal whose identity was not revealed
This latest development would be the third recent attack on police in the state, after those of Nnewi and Nnobi, which happened in August, where some operatives paid the supreme prices.
Police authorities in Anambra State have confirmed the attack, saying that the police operative was killed after a petrol bomb was tossed into the police station by the gunmen who were suspected to be separatist elements..
The State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, in a reply to the media on the attack said: “The suspected armed secessionist group started shooting sporadically in an attempt to gain entrance to the police station and threw petrol bombs at the security facility which made some of the offices catch up with fire including the Oba Civic Center.
“Unfortunately, a police corporal who was fatally wounded paid the supreme price, while the fire was put off with the help of other police officers on duty and the joint security responding team.”
Ikenga said operations have commenced this morning, with police-led joint security forces comprising of the Army, Navy, Civil defence and other security agencies currently in a joint onslaught operation within Oba and its environments.
According to the police image maker, said the Commissioner of Police, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam described the attack as invasion of security facilities and hostility towards security agents, and as an attack on the soul of a nation.
He vowed to bring those behind the unholy act to book.
