Gunmen have reportedly attacked the Oba Police Divisional Headquarters in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State.
According to reports, a huge group of hoodlums broke into the police station early Tuesday morning and tossed explosives at it.
The gunmen also stormed the Oba Civic Centre. According to some local accounts, a police corporal who has yet to be recognised was murdered in the incident, while others were injured to varied degrees.
The motivation for the attack has yet to be determined; however, it is thought to have been carried out by a secessionist organisation.
SP Tochukwu Ikenga, the state police public relations officer, confirmed the incident in a statement released on Tuesday.
Ikenga stated that the gunmen shot sporadically and threw petrol bombs, causing fires in some offices and the civic centre.
Ikenga said, “The police-led Joint Security Force, comprising of the Army, Navy, Civil Defence, and other security agencies, is currently in a joint on-slaught operation within Oba and its environments. Following an attack in the early hours of today, 3/9/2024, on Oba Police Divisional Headquarters and Oba Civic Centre.
“The suspected armed secessionists’ 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 fire, including the Oba Civic Centre.
“Unfortunately, a police corporal who was fatally wounded paid the supreme price, while the fire was put out with the help of other police officers on duty and the Joint Security responding team.”
Furthermore, he revealed that the Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam, while condemning the act, described the invasion of security facilities and hostility towards security agents as an attack on the soul of a nation and vows to bring the gunmen behind the unholy act to book.
