Gunmen ambushed security personnel of Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, and killed three policemen from the department of Explosive Ordinance Device, (EoD) attached to the Delta State government house, Asaba.
It was gathered that the incident occurred on Friday in the Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State on Okowa’s way to Abia State.
According to SaharaReporters, a police officer attached to the Anambra State command who pleaded for anonymity identified the three deceased police officers as Inspectors Lucky Aleh, Celestine Nwadiokwu and Jude Obuh.
The police officer disclosed that the three officers who were part of the advance party of Okowa, the PDP vice presidential candidate to Abia state were attacked and killed by unknown gunmen at about 1.30 pm at Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State and their vehicle set ablaze.
It was reliably gathered that two of the killed police officers were indigenes of Agbor, Delta state.
“Four officers were in the vehicle but one was on mufti (not on uniform) so he was freed while the three in uniform were killed. The Escort commander from the Government House, Asaba, was sent to bring their corpses and deposit in a mortuary in Asaba,” a Government House source confided in SaharaReporters.
The Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, (PPRO), Ikenga Tochukeu, who confirmed the incident, said that, “We got distress calls and we rushed to the scene of the incident. The policemen who were killed are from the Delta state command and were on transit as at the time of the incident. But I can assure you that the state commissioner of police, Anambra is very poised to bringing to book the criminals behind the dastardly act.”