Police recover arms, ammunition from kidnappers’ hideout in Delta

<p>“For instance, the officials of the deployed security forces have made measures to alter the initial media reports that accused the security forces of “at least 50 civilian deaths and the burning of 170 civilian homes in Izombe and environs between June 7 and June 19, 2023.”</p>, <p>“Communities in Izombe and its adjoining Agwa Autonomous Community, both in Oguta Local Government Area, as well as Amucha, Orlu, Njaba, Orsu, and other regions under Orlu Zone of the State, are the two hardest affected areas.</p>, <p>He vowed to explore every available means to apprehend the perpetrators and appealed to Traditional Rulers, Town Union Presidents and community vigilantes to establish a functional rapport to promote peace in their areas.</p>, <p>Ebonyi communities have continued to boil as hoodlums set ablaze a police van at Ukwagba village and shot sporadically to scare citizens in a bid to enforce the seven- days sit-at-home order declared by a faction of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, led by Simon Ekpa.</p>, <p>Officers of Zone 16, Bayelsa State carried out the arrest, along the Emohua area of the East-West Road.</p>, <p>Responding, the Commissioner of Information and State Orientation in Ebonyi, Jude Chikadibia Okpor expressed dismay over the apprehension in some parts of the state following reported activities of hoodlums and unscrupulous elements.</p>, <p>‘‘I want to repeat, exhibits can never be missing. Do exhibits have wings to fly and if they don’t fly, exhibits cannot go missing in my Command.</p>, <p>He added that frantic effort was on to arrest the crime syndicate.</p>, <p>“The two worst hit areas are communities in Izombe and neighbouring others including Agwa Autonomous Community; all in Oguta Local Government Area as well as Amucha, Orlu, Njaba, Orsu, and others under Orlu Zone of the State.</p>, <p>The Commissioner of Police, Wale Abass, confirmed the report in a statement signed by the police image maker, DSP Bright Edafe.</p>, <p>He said Operatives of the Command, invaded and raided some ca