Police Operatives from the Operations Department of the Command and attached to a VIP in the State on Friday, along Agulu/Nnobi road, demobilized one of the criminal elements in the State and recovered one pump action gun, five live cartridges, five machetes, two SUV jeeps and two pairs of desert shoe.
Angel Network News (ANN) gathered that
the Operatives resisted the armed men operating in a grey-coloured Lexus ES 330 with Plate Nos: ACA 551 MA and an ash-coloured Toyota Highlander with plate number: SMK 544, who attacked their convoy unprovoked.
According to SP Tochukwu Ikenga, Police Public Relations Officer, Anambra State Command, during the gun duel, the swift response by the Joint Security Team comprising the Police and AVG Operatives led by the Divisional Police Officer Neni, Anaocha Local Government Area, made the armed men abandon their vehicle and fled the scene with bullet wounds, through a nearby bush.
Meanwhile, the Operatives have sustained operations in the area aimed at arresting the fleeing members.
Members of the public and residents of the area have also been called upon to assist the Command with information in this regard.
