The Imo State Police Command has revealed that two police officers from Mopol 18 were killed by suspected gunmen on Gariki Road in Imo State’s Okigwe region.
In a statement signed by the command’s spokesman, Henry Okoye, the officers were ambushed in the early hours of Saturday while on patrol duty along old Gariki Road in Okigwe by hoodlums who threw dynamite on the officer’s patrol vehicle and engaged them in a lengthy gunfight.
He went on to say that two officers died as a result of the incident, while four others survived.
According to a police spokesman, upon receiving word of the heinous occurrence, the Commissioner of Police Imo State Command, CP Aboki Danjuma, along with Commander Mopol 18 and 64, promptly led operatives from the Command’s Special Tactical Unit to the crime scene for on-the-spot investigation.
He directed the operatives to go all out in collaboration with other security agencies to track down the hoodlums guilty for the attack.
The CP has also directed the Assistant Commissioner of Police in Charge of Okigwe, the DPO, and other tactical units stationed in Okigwe to conduct visibility patrols, intelligence-led raids on criminal hideouts, and implement tight security measures to prevent such incidents.
While empathising with the families, friends, and loved ones of the murdered officers, the Commissioner of Police underlined unequivocally that the Command under his command would not tolerate any sort of attack on security professionals in the State.
He promised the public that the Command would stop at nothing to ensure that the perpetrators of this heinous act were all apprehended and punished to the fullest extent of the law.