Fire Guts Police Station In Anambra

Divisional Police Station, Orumba- North local government area of Anambra State, has been gutted by fire. LEADERSHIP Friday learnt that some hoodlums set the police station on fire at about 2.30am, yesterday, after setting free suspects being detained at the police station. The sources stated that the hoodlums, who had even “beat up” some of the police personnel during the attack, were shouting “No election in Biafraland.” The image-maker of the state police command, Mr Haruna Mohammed, who accompanied the state commissioner of police, Mr Mustapha Dandaura, to the affected police station, in a statement said that nobody could say the actual cause of the fire incident until investigations are concluded. He stated that no life was lost and that both the personnel and other critical police assets, especially the fire-arms, were properly protected from the inferno.

 Sadly, the Ajali police station’s fire incident happened barely two days after fire gutted two steel containers containing a total of 4, 695 Smart-Card-Readers already configured for 18 out of the 21 local government areas of the state for the conduct of this coming Saturday Presidential and National Assembly elections.