By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye,
A suspected member of a gang linked to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Monday, August 1, 2022 met his waterloo when he engaged operatives of the Nigeria Police Force , Delta Command in a gun battled.
The suspect was gunned down at Ogbada quarters along Illah–Akwukwu-Igbo road in Oshimili North Local Government Area of the State.
The Commissioner of Police, Delta State Command, CP Ari Mohammed Ali while briefing journalists at the Command’s headquarters in Asaba, said the deceased and two other armed men suspected to be members of IPOB attacked a police patrol team “attached to Illah Division while on stop and search duty at Ogbada quarters along Illah–Akwukwu-Igbo road,” and the team in response, “engaged them in a fierce gun duel during which one of the hoodlums was neutralized while the other members of the gang escaped with gunshot injuries.
“One AK47 rifle with breech no 2534896 and six rounds of 7.62MM ammunition were recovered. Manhunt for the fleeing members of the gang is ongoing.”
CP Ali identified the recovered AK47 rifle as among the two rifles that were carted away by the armed men who in the early hours of Sunday, July 24, 2022, ambushed and killed three police officers attached to the Okpanam Division also in Oshimili North Local Government Area.