The Anambra State Police Command has arrested 34 suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra ( IPOB) in connection with the killing of a police inspector in Nnewi.
The spokesman of the command, SP Haruna Mohammed, made the disclosure in a statement on Saturday.
Haruna said that some personnel and a Divisional Police Officer (DPO ) were also wounded while a police patrol van was set ablaze.
The spokesman said that riot policemen of the Police Mobile Force (PMF), Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU), Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS), EOD and Special Anti-Cult Unit personnel and conventional policemen have been deployed in Nnewi and environs.
Haruna said that on November 23 at about 11:55 am, there was intelligence report that members of IPOB were gathering near the Teaching Hospital, Owerri Road, Nnewi with intent to cause…
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