The Ebonyi State Police Command has arrested one Igbokwe
Chukwuemaka, a Civil Defence officer and 11 others involved in pipeline
vandalization at Amaeze Ishiagu in Ivo Local Government Area of the state.
Speaking while parading the vandals at the command headquarters,
Abakaliki, the Commissioner of Police, Peace Abdallah said the police received
information that there was vandalization of pipeline going on at Amaeze
Ishiagu.
"Police raced to the scene and after exchange of gun fire
with the hoodlums, arrested one Igbokwe Chukwuemaka, a Civil Defence officer
and 10 other suspects while others escaped," she said.
Mrs Abdallah said that the matter was under investigation and that
if found guilty, the suspects would face the full wrath of the law as pipeline
vandalism was a high economic sabotage.
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