CP Orutugu assures that the Command will apprehend the perpetrators, as the act is viewed as a test of the collective resolve of Ndi Anambra working with security forces to dislodge the criminal elements in the State.
One of the Anambra Joint Security Team in the late evening of 15th May 2025 resisted an attack by armed criminals at the Security checkpoint in Isuofia. Two of the armed hoodlums were neutralized in the process. Regrettably, one of the security operatives was fatally wounded, while one of the security operational vehicles was burnt by the bandits.
During the ensuing gun battle and due to the superior fire of the Joint security team, the criminals abandoned one of their operational vehicles, a Toyota Sienna, and fled the scene.
The Commissioner of Police CP Ikioye Orutugu fwc MNIPS PhD has condemned the act and viewed it as a test of Ndi Anambra’s collective resolve to work with the security forces to dislodge and eliminate criminal elements in the State. He assured that the Command will apprehend the perpetrators behind this unpatriotic act.
Meanwhile, calm has returned to the area, and security has been reinforced with more armed operatives currently combing nearby bushes for the possible arrest of the fleeing miscreants.
Further developments shall be communicated accordingly, please
SP Tochukwu Ikenga
Police Public Relations Officer
Anambra State Police Command, Awka
