Onitsha: Suspected IPOB Members Enforcing Sit-At-Home Burn Vehicle, Tricycle  

Some suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have allegedly disrupted the economic activities of Onitsha, Anambra State.

The incident happened on Wednesday morning when the heavily-armed men claiming to be enforcing a sit-at-home directive set a commercial bus and a tricycle ablaze.

They were also shooting in the air to scare people away.

It was learnt that the activities of the hoodlums on Wednesday morning had sent panic through Onitsha town, with a source saying that the enforcers were heading towards Abagana in Njikoka Local Government Area through the old road.

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The incident was confirmed by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, who said police operatives confronted the enforcers, and they had long been dislodged.

Quoting him, “Police responded swiftly which made the criminals escape the scene. The hoodlums, in an attempt to scare the residents from coming out to embark on their daily activities, stopped and set on fire commercial vehicles and tricycles plying the road.

“The residents courageously resisted the assailants and the fire has been put off by the police operatives and some people in the area. Meanwhile calm has returned to the area and the situation is under control and monitored.”