IPOB Declares 14-day Lockdown As Police Kill Sit-At-Home Enforcers

Two criminals who were purportedly implementing the sit-at-home order in the state were slain by Ebonyi Police Command operatives.

The separatist Indigenous People of Biafra created the sit-at-home movement in the South-East to protest the ongoing arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, their leader.

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The hoodlums were said to have shot sporadically into the air within the Okposi area in the Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, while trying to enforce a sit-at-home order, on Monday, when operatives of the command engaged them in a gun duel.

The state’s police public relations officer, Onome Onovwakpoyeya, claimed in a statement on Tuesday that men from the command shot and killed one of the criminals during the ensuing shootout.

“On 10/07/2023, at about 1350hrs, some armed men, suspected to be IPOB/ESN members, went to Okposi in Ohaozara LGA and started shooting sporadically into the air.

“The hoodlums engaged the policemen in a gun duel, which resulted in one of them being neutralised while the others escaped with varying degrees of bullet wounds,” the statement read.

The police reported finding a blue Highlander SUV that was “riddled with bullets,” along with a pump-action gun, charms, nine spent AK-47 rifle shells, five live cartridges, four handsets, and a Sumec Fireman generator.