Gracia Simeon-Abakaliki
Ebonyi State Police command has confirmed the attack on her personnels by unknown gunmen numbering over sixty at Igbuduoke village in Effium/Ezza Clan in Ohaukwu local government Area.
According to the police Spokeperson DSP Loveth Odah in a statement made available to newsmen, said the officers were attacked while returning from investigation activities in connection with the three missing engineers.
Odah further noted that two officers were alledgedly abducted by the hoodlums while three personnels and member representing Ohaukwu North in the state House of Assembly Hon. Chinedu Awo, luckily escaped the area with different degrees of injuries.
Odah said “On 28/11/2021 at about 1340hrs while the Police Operatives were returning from investigation activities in connection with the three missing engineers who were abducted in the same area on the 3rd of November, 2021 while on ring road site project, the operatives were in the company of Hon. Chinedu Awo a member Representing Ohaukwu North Constituency in the State House of Assembly who accompanied the operatives to enable him to dialogue with the warriors at Igbuduoke village in Effium/Ezza clan ‘the warring community’ in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the State, they were ambushed by armed Ezza warriors numbering over sixty (60) who attacked them from all flanks but the operatives gallantry fought back, resulting in heavy casualties on the side of the attackers.
“However, DSP Bruno Chukwu and two others sustained bullet wound injuries and are currently responding to treatment, while two Police officers by name, Sergeant Donatus Osugwu and Sergeant Thaddeus Ugoeze are suspected to have been abducted by the hoodlums as they were discovered missing in action.
“Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police Ebonyi State Command *CP. Aliyu Garba (psc+)* led a convoy of about seven teams on reinforcement where they cordoned the forest and searched the village but could not see the missing officers nor the perpetrators. Efforts are in top gear to ensure the perpetrators are tracked down and arrested”.
Recall that Governor David Umahi last week during an enlarged security council meeting held in government house centenary city frowned at the abduction of five LENA Engineers in charge of the Ring road Effium section by unknown gunmen of the area which led to him suspending of the project until the two Community Effium and Ezza Effium sworn an affidavit to protect the contractors and other workers at the project site while he promised to work with the security agencies to get the contractors alives.
