Sit-At-Home: IPOB/ESN members set ablaze two buses, motorcycles, others In Ebonyi
By Joyce Onuora, Abakaliki
Gunmen suspected to be IPOB members, attacked commuters while enforcing a sit-at-home order at the popular Ezzangbo junction in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
Salient Times reports that the gunmen stormed the Ezzamgbo junction and started shooting sporadically to scare marketers away,
The armed men also razed a tricycle, seven motorcycles, a commercial phone operator shop and other valuable properties at the Eke market and Ezzamgbo junction on Monday.
Therefore, the Chairman of Ohaukwu Local Government Area, Prince Ikechukwu Odono has condemned an attack by suspected IPOB members
The council chairman
confirmed the incident, said, “Early this morning, armed hoodlums entered Ezzamgbo junction and started shooting at the flyover. They set ablaze two buses and about three motorcycles.
“I quickly called security agents but before they could reach the scene of the incident, the armed men had left for Nkwo Donkey Market where they shot sporadically in the air; and set ablaze one tricycle and another three motorcycles.
“Before the security operatives could reach there, the hoodlums had fled.
The police Spokesperson in Ebonyi State, SP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, also confirmed the incident, saying that the armed men came in a Sienna car and attacked commuter buses, tricycles and motorcycles at Ezzamgbo junction.
According to her, the hoodlums burnt three commuter buses, four motorcycles and one tricycle but “no life was lost”.
“Operatives of the Command have been dispatched to the scene and its environs to fish out the perpetrators. And we believe that before the end of the day, the perpetrators will be apprehended,” Onovwakpoyeya added.
