The police spokesperson said that the security operatives recovered locally fabricated rocket launcher, police uniforms, high calibre of ammunition and a Ford Pick-Up truck without number plates.
Nigerian Police Operatives Destroy Camps Of Gunmen In Anambra, Recover Rocket Launcher, Other Weapons
The Anambra State Police Command has said that a Joint Security Force in the state hunting for the gunmen who recently attacked two police stations in the state have destroyed camps of the gunmen after engaging in a fierce firefighting.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, who made this known in a statement issued on Wednesday in Awka, the state capital, said that the security operatives destroyed the camps on Tuesday in Obofia Forest, Aguluezuchukwu and Ogboji areas of the state after engaging the criminals who laid ambush for the security operatives.
The police spokesperson said that the security operatives recovered locally fabricated rocket launcher, police uniforms, high calibre of ammunition and a Ford Pick-Up truck without number plates.
Ikenga said that the Police-led Forward Operating Base that is highly mobile struck the camps and “the insurgents who had deployed at various locations in ambush were engaged in fierce firefight and were routed from their enclaves which were subsequently destroyed.
“High calibre ammunition, catridges, a locally fabricated rocket launcher, Police uniforms and one Ford Pick-Up Truck without number plates were recovered.
“The Commissioner of Police, CP Aderemi Adeoye, who ordered the operation has vowed that it would be sustained until the insurgents are completely routed from Anambra State.
“He has charged troops and personnel involved in the operations to sustain the tempo until the State is made completely safe from cowardly guerrilla attacks by the insurgents.”
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