Enugu Police Command has beefed up security on the streets of Enugu metropolis with the deployment of about hundreds of operatives to restore normalcy.
Two persons were reported dead following early Saturday attack by hoodlums enforcing Simon Ekpa’s five- day sit-at-home order at New Market, Enugu.
A viral video shows two yet- to- be identified victims lying in front of the Enugu University Teaching Hospital, Parklane, Enugu. They were early morning traders said to have been hit by the bullets of the sit-at-home enforcers.
The hoodlums, numbering over 10, stormed the area as early as 6am on Saturday, December 10, 2022, and started shooting, scaring people away from the market.
A police van was also set ablaze in front of Colliery Hospital at New Market while two people were shot dead during the invasion.
The development immediately forced Enugu residents indoors for fear of further attack.
However, normalcy returned to the axis and across the metropolis few minutes later following the deployment of a crack team of Police Operatives to hunt down the armed hoodlums, who shot sporadically and breached public peace in the area.
Responding to the development, Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Ammani, ordered Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers, and Commanders of all the Tactical/Operational Units of the Command to ensure the maximum deployment of all the Command’s intelligence and operational resources at their disposal, to effectively patrol and fish out miscreants that may want to disturb public peace and security, and/or disrupt the businesses and otherwise activities of law-abiding citizens, under the guise of enforcing illegitimate sit-at-home order.
In a statement by Enugu Police spokesman Daniel Ndukwe, the CP reassured that the Command, collaborating with other security agencies and law-abiding citizens, will never rest on its oars in ensuring that the lives and property of the citizenry are protected against the undesirable activities of disgruntled and misguided criminal elements, hellbent on causing unwarranted havoc to selves and fellow citizens.
HORROR: 2 Suspected Robbers Burnt To Death In Enugu
Two young men trying to rob POS operators at the Independence Layout area in Enugu were, on Wednesday, November 9, 2022, set ablaze by angry youths
It was gathered that the angry mobs did not allow the police to take them to their station, but decided to take the law into their hands.
Before setting them on fire, they were first stripped naked, filmed and the video circulated on social media.
The country director of the Global Society for Anti-Corruption, G-SAC, Mrs Amaka Nweke condemned the jungle Justice.
Nweke, however, condemned the attacks on POS operators but said people should not take laws into their hands but hand over such matters to law enforcement agencies.
“I condemn what the robbers do to the POS operators but at the same time, I condemn mob action. They should have handed them over to the police instead of taking laws into their hands,” she condemns.
However, a resident who would not want his name in print said the robbers deserved what they got.
“I like the way they were set ablaze alive so that it will serve as a deterrent to others. If you have been a victim of these bad boys, you will even want a worse thing to happen to them. I do not pity them. Let them burn in hell for all I care,” he said.
The police were yet to confirm the incident as the police spokesman, Daniel Ndukwe, said that he had not been informed about the unwholesome development.
“The incident has not been brought to my notice but I’ll find out,” he said.
Source: The Nation
