The Imo State Police Command has paraded 15 suspects who claimed to be Staff of the Imo state oil-producing area development Commission, ISOPADEC for allegedly attacking the convoy of the governor Hope Uzodinma, around Concorde avenue at New Owerri area of Imo state.
The State Commissioner of Police Issac Akinmoyede while briefing newsmen at the Command’s Headquarters in Owerri noted that the fifteen suspects were arrested with one locally made pistol, two matchetes, one masquerade facemask, a chain and a padlock.
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Akinmoyede Said the group claimed to be protesting three months salary owed to Them by the state government and in the process, attacked vehicles on the Governor’s convoy who was on his way from an official assignment at Obinze.
Reacting to the development, the Commissioner for Information and strategy Declan Emelumba said the hoodlums who perpetrated such heinous act were been sponsored by the opposition.
He however appealed to members of the public not to take laws into their hands but to report genuine grievances to the police rather than resort to self help.
(Editor:Abaje Usekwe)
