Sit-At-Home Order: Nigerian Police Exchange Gunfire With Enforcers In Enugu, Recover AK-47 Rifles, Petrol Bombs

The Nigeria Police Force, (NPF) Enugu State command has said it exchanged gunfire with some hoodlums who had gone out to enforce the illegal one week sit-at-home protest against the continued detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Kanu, who is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has been in detention facility of the Nigeria’s secret police Department of State Services, (DSS) since June 2021 after being brought from Kenya.

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In 2022, several Courts including The Court of Appeal and United Nations Commission on Human Rights and Extrajudicial Killings have condemned his detention, and subsequently, demanded his unconditional release. The courts also awarded punitive cost against the government, yet it had not been obeyed.

However, the Enugu State Government led by Governor Peter Mbah has requested that President Tinubu release the Leader of IPOB and has also banned sit-at-home in Enugu declaring it as illegal.

Residents of the State took to social media to share incidents of what they are experiencing on Wednesday that there was commotion in the state capital as residents scampered to safety following rumours that sit-at-home enforcers were shooting in various locations.

Despite security presences in various strategic places, schools were also shut down while markets and businesses closed.

The sit-at-home also continued on Friday as residents deserted roads and businesses closed with schools shut down despite the Governor’s ban.

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However, the police in statement on Friday evening, said that its operatives serving in Awkunanaw Division on Friday morning intercepted armed criminal elements, who were attempting to snatch an ENTRACO branded Sharon minivan from its driver, at One-Day, along Agbani Road, Enugu.

According to the statement signed by the Command’s Spokesperson DSP Daniel Ndukwe, the operatives engaged the miscreants in a gun duel, forcing them to abandon the vehicle and narrowly escaped with varying degrees of fatal gunshot wounds.

Ndukwe said that manhunt of the fleeing hoodlums had been launched and ongoing.

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He said that when the vehicle, with blood stains on the seats and other items therein, were recovered, a thorough search was conducted, leading to further recovery of: “one AK-47 rifle with a magazine loaded with 19 rounds of live 7.62 calibre of ammunition, two bottles of petrol bomb, one hammer, one plier and one Jack-knife.

“Other items recovered include: a pair of canvass with blood stains abandoned by one of the escaping miscreants, fetish objects, one mobile phone, three criminal hoods, one hooded long sleeves, another without a hood and other incriminating exhibits.”