- A local disclosed that the assailants stormed the unfenced police station at about 2 am
- An officer was shot during the attack
Gunmen wreaking havoc in Nigeria’s South East have attacked a police station in Enugu state.
The rampaging gunmen attacked Divisional Police station in Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of the State early Tuesday morning.
Although no officer was reported killed during the attack, one of them was said to have been shot and is currently receiving treatment.
The gunmen also succeeded in carting away arms and ammunition.
A local disclosed that the assailants stormed the unfenced police station at about 2 am with a Toyota Sienna bus, shouting “Release Nnamdi Kanu,” “No Nnamdi Kanu, no peace.”
“They came through Eha-Amufu and left through the same axis but it’s not possible they got to Eha-Amufu township or crossed to Nkalagu, otherwise they would have been encountered by the soldiers in that area. It’s possible they went through Aguamede to Benue state,” the source said.
The Enugu State Police Public command is yet to issue a statement on the reported attack.
Meanwhile, Finland-based Biafran separatist leader, Simon Ekpa, says his group, the Auto-pilot and the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, are not behind the killings and destructions in the southeast.
Ekpa disclosed that governors and politicians are responsible for the upheaval and unrest in the beleaguered zone.
“It’s not IPOB that is causing the violence and the fear in the southeast. Sit-at-home is civil disobedience and not a violent measure” Ekpa said in an interview with Vanguard
He accused politicians of stockpiling arms and sponsoring thugs to hijack the sit-at-home to discredit the secessionist group.
He stated :“Whenever we call for a sit-at-home, these people will unleash these armed groups to go and start causing problems to tag it Biafra, thinking that when they do that, we are going to run away.
” We have been shouting about it for a very long time. So, if you want to look for who are the people responsible for the violence in the South East, look at these armed people sponsored by politicians.