…says ‘no hiding place for group’s members’
Inspector-General of Police, Adamu Muhammed, on Tuesday, ordered a shoot-on-sight order against members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra over Monday’s attack on the prison and police command headquarters in Owerri, Imo State.
He vowed that IPOB members will not go scot-free, ordering policemen to effectively make use of their rifles anywhere they encountered members of the proscribed group.
Adamu gave this order during his visit to the state to inspect the extent of damage done to the bombed Imo State Police Command Headquarters.
He insisted that IPOB members were behind the Imo prison jailbreak and the burning of the state police command.
Adamu, who ordered policemen to shoot on sight IPOB members, warned that “police will not allow these criminals to succeed.”
Meanwhile, ahead of the IGP’s visit to the state, security was beefed up in the state capital as security operatives were deployed in all the nooks and crannies of Owerri, the state capital.
Adamu’s visit was sequel to the Monday morning attacks on the state police command headquarters in Owerri and the Owerri Correctional Centre.
The gunmen, who bombed their way into the prison with dynamites, freed 1,884 inmates, telling them to “go home, Jesus has risen. You have no reason to be here again.”
After freeing almost all the suspects at the police command headquarters, the hoodlums also burnt no fewer than 50 vehicles.
The gunmen also set ablaze a car along with a soldier driving it after they attacked a military base at Ukwuorji on Owerri-Onitsha Expressway, where they set ablaze four military operational vehicles.