Joint Security Taskforce (JTF), weekend, raided the forests of Ogbunka in Orumba South Local Government Area (LGA), Anambra state, in search of insurgents who attacked police stations early in the week.
Some hoodlums had attacked police stations at Awgbu in Orumba North LGA and Neni, Anaocha LGA on Monday and Thursday respectively, setting some of the operatives’ facilities ablaze.
According to the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Tochukwu Ikenga, the JTF through the order of the police Commissioner, Mr Aderemi Adeoye, had launched a hunt for the invaders.
He said the JTF had launched a hunt on “gunmen who attacked two Police stations at Awgbu in Orumba North and Neni in Anaocha LGA in the last two weeks, to identify and destroy any camp being used by insurgents to launch attacks within the Command.
“Six Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) already primed for attacks and two Walkie Talkies were recovered from the Camps. Also recovered were substantial food and groceries supply. All the camps were subsequently destroyed to deny the insurgents bases for launching attacks.
“The cowardly criminals fled in the face of the onslaught. The raid on the forests in search of insurgents and their camps is still ongoing with a view to eliminating the terrorists; rescuing abducted victims; recovering firearms and stolen vehicles in their possession,” he said.
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