Inspector, Two Others Killed As Cultists Clash With Police

Inspector, Two Others Killed As Cultists Clash With Police

Two people were killed in a shootout between police and suspected cultists in Ndiegoro Community, Aba South Local Government Area, Abia State.

According to Vanguard, the suspected cultists blocked a police patrol team from the Ndiegoro Division in the area, resulting in a shootout between the two groups.

In the ensuing gun battle, a police inspector from the Ndiegoro Division was killed, as were two of the cultists.

According to police sources, the suspected cultists who engaged the cops in a shootout were members of the Eastern Security Network, or ESN.

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According to the source, the hoodlums not only killed the Police Inspector and injured others, but they also killed two of their own members. They made off with one of the slain police inspector’s AK-47 rifles.

“The Police officer, who was killed by the hoodlums was on routine patrol duty with his colleagues on Umuanyogu Street, Iheorji Ohanku Road, Aba when the hoodlums, who were over 200 chanting war-like songs blocked their Patrol van singing about Biafra.

“It’s bad that when the Police are killed, nobody talks about it but when a citizen, who attacked the Police dies in the act. people rise against the Police and call them all sorts of names.”

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According to a resident of the Iheorji community, the incident occurred when some police officers from the Ndiegoro Police Division were allegedly extorting motorists and drug dealers in the area before a disagreement erupted, leading to a shootout.

“Remember that this same incident happened in 2018 in the same Ndiegoro Division when a police officer was killed and police came to Ndiegoro areas like Okojombo, Ntueke and other streets burning properties and destroying lives.

“They usually come to criminal drug areas here to collect money and when they have disagreements, it leads to such killings and this one, I learnt it was between them and some Aro cultists, who we know have taken control of Ndiegoro area for some years now.

“This place is under-policed. Only one police station oversees the whole neighbourhood in Aba. What do we expect? Why must Ndiegoro Police Division be having such problems all the time? Something must be done,” the resident said.

When contacted, Geoffrey Ogbonna of the Abia State Police Public Relations Office explained that the hoodlums were suspected ESN members.

This, however, contradicts local residents’ accounts of the incident.

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