The suspects, members of a five-man armed gang operating in a Toyota Sienna, abducted Attama, 32, a native of Igbo-Etiti in Enugu State, from his Toyota Rav 4 jeep on Nnewi Road on May 14.DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, police spokesman in Anambra, stated that the assailants already demanded a N10 million ransom from the victim’s family before he escaped.
“Unfortunately, during the encounter, four vigilance operatives sustained fatal injuries,’’ he stated. Ikenga added that the police equally recovered one automatic pump action gun, 30 rounds of AK-47 live ammunition, six live cartridges and Sub-Machine Gun ammunition. He quoted the Commissioner of Police in Anambra, Mr Echeng Echeng, as restating the Command’s unwavering commitment to the fight against crime and criminality in the state.
Echeng called for continuous support, especially with timely information to the police and other law enforcement agencies in the fight against crime in the state, Ikenga stated.
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