The cops were attacked when they wanted to arrest some suspected armed robbers and receivers of a stolen vehicle in Ogoja community.
Following the assault of four police detectives in Ogoja, Cross River, the Acting Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the immediate arrest and prosecution of persons involved.
The Force Spokesman, Frank Mba, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, said in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, that the incident occurred on April 17.
The cops were attacked when they wanted to arrest some suspected armed robbers and receivers of a stolen vehicle in Ogoja community.
Mba said that the attack was masterminded and executed by one Ikenga, a notorious receiver of stolen property and his gang members.
He said that the detectives who were attached to the I-G Intelligence Response Team (IRT) Unit were seriously wounded with deep machete cuts.
The spokesman explained that the victims (detectives) were investigating a case of a stolen Toyota Sienna bus earlier reported by the Master Chapel Church, a Pentecostal church based in Lagos.
He said that they had after a painstaking investigation, arrested four male suspects, Peter, Ben, Ebuka and Johnson.
Mba said that the suspects, who confessed to stealing the vehicle, said further that they had sold it to another criminal in Benue.