Police confirm killing of an officer by unknown gunmen in Ebonyi

From Uchenna Okeh, Abakaliki

Ebonyi state police command led by the commissioner, Augustina Ogbodo has confirmed the killing of an officer whose name is yet to be identified by unknown gunmen

The Nations News Nigeria reports that the unknown gunmen attacked a police checkpoint at Ishieke, Ebonyi local government area of the state on Thursday.

The commissioner of police, CP. Ogbodo in a statement signed and issued to newsmen in Abakaliki, by the command’s spokesperson DSP Joshua Ukandu, said the hoodlums in an ash coloured Sienna vehicle attacked the Police check point at Isheke junction in Ebonyi LGA of Ebonyi State.

The statement reads in part: “The hoodlums shot sporadically at the officers, who engaged them fiercely and were able to repel them. However one of the officers was fatally wounded and a patrol vehicle set ablaze.

Ogbodo noted further that the command immediately deployed police operatives to the scene, and they are on the trail of the hoodlums, adding that calm and normalcy has been restored to the area.

She however, called on the citizens of the state to avail the command with useful information that will aid in apprehending the fleeing hoodlums, noting that the command remains resolute in its fight against crime and criminality and protection of lives and properties.