Police have arrested four members of the armed men who led the foiled attack on Mbieri Police Station in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State on Friday.
The Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Michael Abattam, said on Saturday that police operatives, after diligent gathering of credible intelligence arrested one Solomon Umunakwu ‘m’ and Uzoma Umunakwe ‘m’ both natives of Mbieri in Mbaitoli LGA of Imo State, escapees from Imo Correctional Center jail break of April, 5, 2021, Kelechi Onuoma ‘m’ aka Ikaba and kelvin Onuoma ‘m’ aka Alabalaba both natives of Atta in Njaba LGA of Imo State.
According to him, the command’s tactical teams on the same day of the incident at about 1450 hours, mobilised and stormed the house of Solomon Umunakwu in Mbieri.
Abattam said that two operational vehicles used during the foiled attack, a Blue Colour Toyota Corolla LE with registration number ABC 695 HA and one Ash colour Acura MDX SUV vehicle with registration number RRT 149 AG respectively were recovered.
He said that “the police operatives then moved to the hideouts of other gang members in Atta in Njaba LGA of Imo state where the following items were recovered ; three locally made pistols, one cut to size gun, one Beretta pistol number NAF-P 3296 , one dagger, four rounds of live cartridges, two police belts, one Eastern Security Network uniform, one black beret, one army camouflage scarf, two big sacks of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp and one iron saw blade.”
According to him, the police operatives are on an aggressive manhunt for the fleeing hoodlums.
