….As CP Ammani commends Operatives, charging them to ensure fleeing members of the gang are apprehended
….Arrest 1, Recover Snatched Tricycle, 5 Firearms and 374 Live Ammunition of Different Calibres.
Police Operatives serving in Octopus Squad ‘B’ of Enugu State Command, on Friday, 27th January 2023 at about 9 pm, conducted an intelligence-guided sting operation, intercepted and busted at Diamond Estate axis of Onitsha Road Enugu, an armed robbery gang, known to perpetrate heinous crimes within Enugu metropolis and environ under the nebulous name of “Unknown Gunmen”.
According to a press release signed by the Enugu State Command, Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, said that one of its members, who gave his name as Chinenye Nwadike aged 32, a native of Mbaitoli in Imo State, but resident at Ndiagha, Amechi-Uwani Enugu, was arrested while others escaped with bullet wounds.
The team recovered a yellow-coloured tricycle the suspects were operating in, which was earlier reported snatched by the gang at gunpoint in the evening hours of the same date, at Eke-Otu Amechi-Awkunanaw Enugu.
Other exhibits recovered include: two assault rifles, one English-made and one locally-fabricated Pump Action gun each, one double-barreled gun, three hundred and forty-nine live ammunition of 7.62mm calibre, twenty-five live cartridges, one sledge hammer, one Battle axe head, four Machetes, two bottles of Six Followers Perfume and objects suspected to be charming.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Ammani while commending the Operatives for acting on the crime prevention measures of the Command towards the actualization of the operational breakthrough, has charged them to remain steadfast, and resolute and ensure that the fleeing members of the gang are fished out.
The CP also enjoined citizens of the State to remain law-abiding, and vigilant and continue to assist the Command with credible information and/or intelligence required to clamp down on unrepentant criminals in the State.
