PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the gunmen stormed the facility at about 3.a.m. on Sunday and set it ablaze.
Sources told this newspaper that the facility was renovated by members of Umuchu Improvement Union after it was destroyed by some angry youth during the #EndSARS protest in 2020.“Nobody was killed when they attacked, because all the police officers have left the place because of the renovation works in the station,” Sam Ejiofor, a resident of the community, told PREMIUM TIMES.
Mr Ezeabasili told reporters that it was improper that while the union had completed the upgrade of the facility and awaited the return of police personnel, the hoodlums attacked and set it ablaze despite being set up for the good of the community.The police spokesperson in the state, Tochukwu Ikenga, has confirmed the attack.
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