Three IPOB training camps discovered in Delta, says Police

Commissioner of Police, Delta State Command, Hafix Inuwa, has said the state’s police officers discovered three undercover training camps operated by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB at Ibusa, Okpanam, and Illah communities in the state.

The Police Commissioner also stated members of the group were arrested for snatching and robbing guns from police officers in the state, since 2018, saying the command apprehended 10 members with 13 AK-47 rifles snatched and robbed on different occasions.

Among the IPoB members in custody was the state coordinator, John Chukwuka, who told Vanguard: “I never snatched rifles from the police, but as the coordinator, I saw the rifles when I visited our camps, but I did not know how the rifles came there.”

According to Commissioner Inuwa: “Following recent series of attack on policemen at nipping points and snatching of police rifles by suspected members of outlawed IPoB in Asaba, the command’s sustained efforts in the investigation of the attacks and snatching of police rifles and ammunition in the state yielded desired results when some principal suspects with strong link to the proscribed IPoB were arrested and made confessional statements.”

Top on the list of arrested persons were Ejiofor 45, a native of Anam in Anambra state, Sunday, 37, Chukwudi, 28 and Onyeka, 29, all from Ebonyi state, 33-year-old Ashaka and Christian, 44, from Delta state, Chima, 26 and Okpara, 37, from Imo state, Maxwell, 36, a native of Abia state and Chibuike, 28, a native of Agulere in Anambra state, all residents of Asaba.







Inuwa revealed: “After a diligent and painstaking investigation, on April 5 at about 2015 hours, while acting on the confession of the arrested key principal suspects, police detectives recovered the following arms and ammunition snatched from policemen from Ugwunwosu Camp of the proscribed IPoB- 10 AK-47 rifles with breech numbers 109003, 533353, 59280, 26240, 06515, 4837, 6466, 2581, 340967, 10 magazines with 200 rounds of AK-47 ammunition.”(VANGUARD)