Some gunmen have attacked the Oba Police Divisional Headquarters in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State.
Sources confirmed that the gunmen, who were in large numbers, invaded the Police facility in the early hours of Tuesday and threw explosives at the facility. They also attacked the sprawling Oba Civic Centre.
During the attack on the Police headquarters, a Corporal was killed while others sustained varying degrees of injury.
Meanwhile, the Police has blamed the “armed secessionists’ group, the Eastern Security Network (ESN) for the attack.
Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Tuesday, said the gunmen shot sporadically and threw petrol bombs, causing fires in some offices and the civic centre.
According to him: “The Police-led Joint Security Force comprising of the Army, Navy, Civil defence and other security agencies are 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 Center.
“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 up with fire including the Oba Civic Centre.
“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.”
He added that the Anambra State Commissioner of Police (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 Nigeria, vowing to bring those behind the unholy act to book.