Abia Police Attack: Our Best Not Good Enough As Gunmen Used Dynamites, Rocket Launchers, Says PPRO

While the rubbles of attack on Imo police command and Imo correctional service centre were yet to settle, again, unknown gunmen struck other police commands in Abia and Anambra states in the early hours of Monday

In the same tradition the gunmen unleased mayhem as police operational equipment and offices were destroyed .

The Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Abia State Command, SP Geoffrey Ogbonna in his statement disclosed that the gunmen who razed the Uzuakoli Police station in the Bende council area, used dynamite and rocket launchers which frustrated the efforts of the policemen guarding the station to repel them.

He stated that the gunmen attacked the station a few minutes before 3 am Monday. According to him, the gunmen also freed detainees at the station while no life was lost.

Ogbonna, who stated this in Umuahia, further explained that no arm was lost in the attack, while the gunmen destroyed the building, patrol vans, exhibit vehicles and cars parked at the station.

The PPRO disclosed that the investigation is ongoing and urged the public not to hesitate to volunteer useful information that will lead to the arrest of the gunmen.