Imo attack: Woman alive, not pregnant, say police
23 June 2022 |
2:42 am
Imo State Police Command, yesterday, said a woman who was stabbed in Nekede, Imo State, by an alleged escapee from the Correctional centre, is alive and not pregnant.
[FILES] Police. PHOTO: DW
Imo State Police Command, yesterday, said a woman who was stabbed in Nekede, Imo State, by an alleged escapee from the Correctional centre, is alive and not pregnant.
A suspect, Ifeanyi Chikere Okoro, had reportedly stabbed the woman, identified as Mrs. Sandra Onyema after he asked her to give him some money.
The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Michael Abattam, in a statement, yesterday, said both the woman and the suspect, who had been inflicted with machete cuts by the mob before a team of Police officers arrived, are at different hospitals in the state.
“Sequel to a report that, on June 19, 2022, at about 1020 hours, a young man, Ifeanyi Chikere Okoro ‘m’ of No. 4 Bus Stop Area, Old Nekede road Owerri, stabbed a pregnant woman, Mrs. Sandra Onyema ‘f’ of the same address, in the stomach and she died on the spot and irate mobs are about lynching the young man.
“The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Umuguma Divisional Police Headquarters Owerri, immediately dispatched two police patrol teams to the scene.
“Unfortunately, before their arrival, the irate mob who were in their numbers, have inflicted several machete cuts on the suspect, threatening to lynch him, before they were stopped by the police operatives, after several persuasive pleas.
“The police operatives who were professional in their conduct, on rescuing the suspect from the hands of the irate mob, hastily took him to Police Medical Centre Owerri, after being rejected by two renowned hospitals. He is presently on admission in the intensive care unit of the hospital receiving treatment,” the statement stated.
MEANWHILE, the state Commissioner of Police (CP), Mohammed Ahmed Barde, commended the officers and men for their timely intervention and condemned the action of the irate mob.
He stressed that mob action is barbaric and unacceptable in law.
Barde advised imolites to always shun self-help in criminal matters rather they should always resort to the rule of law.
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