IPOB Members Bombed Ohanaeze Leader’s House, Police Allege
Christopher Isiguzo Two months after the country home of the President General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo was bombed, the police in Enugu yesterday paraded two persons suspected to have participated in the attack.
The police also paraded nine other suspects for alleged involvement in other criminal activities.
Parading the suspects at the state police headquarters, the Police Commissioner, Danmallam Mohammed, disclosed that the bomb attack on Nwodo’s house on April 29, 2018, was carried out by members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
He said the two suspects - one Ekene Okechukwu who hails from Ubahu Ekwusigo Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State and Alagba Gabriel from Mgbo in Ohaukwu Council Area of Ebonyi Sate, were arrested through intelligence information in connection with the bomb attack. They were said to have sent threat messages to the Nwodo’s mobile phone after the attack.
Danmallam said Ekene was arrested on June 6, at New Haven axis of Enugu, while Alagba was arrested on June 14, at Okokomaiko, Lagos.
The police commissioner also paraded a Deputy Superintendent of Prisons (DSP) Collins Ugwu, a serving Prison officer at the Headquarters of Nigerian Prison Service, Abuja, alongside with his gang members - one Ifeanyi Ozor and Osetu Smart for alleged conspiracy, armed robbery and stealing.
The Commissioner stated that DSP Ugwu was the leader of the gang that specialises on monitoring bank customers that make withdrawals and trail them to a point where they smartly force the door or smash the windscreen and steal the money.