...Gunmen enforcing sit-at-home ‘order’ shot dead

learnt that the gunmen also visited the Government Reserved Area (GRA) in Onitsha, where they also shot intermittently.

In another development, suspected arsonists burnt

Two men allegedly enforcing a “sit-at-home” order of the outlawed IPOB have been shot dead in Anambra State.

Police said they were killed along Umunze Road in Orumba South Local Government Area yesterday.

The spokesman of Anambra Police Command, DSP

Tochukwu Ikenga, said operatives on crime prevention patrol engaged the gunmen in a shootout while they were enforcing the sit-at-home order.

“The Anambra State Command operatives on crime prevention patrol in the early hours of today 16/5/2022 along Umunze Road, Orumba South

LGA, engaged armed bearing men allegedly enforcing sit-athome in Anambra State.”

“The operatives neutralized two of the miscreants and recovered a white Toyota Hiace Bus. Further details showed that these miscreants were obstructing the movement of innocent road users going

for their businesses. The hoodlums forcefully collected their motorbikes and tricycles, chased away the passengers and then set the motorcycle or tricycle ablaze,” he said.

Ikenga, however, said the command had intensified patrol within the state and the situation was being monitored