At the Magistrate Court in Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State, hoodlums were reported to have overpowered police officers from the state Criminal Investigation Department and successfully freed several suspects that were arraigned earlier.
According to ThisDay, the suspects were arraigned on charges of assaulting some members of the Ogwashi-Uku vigilante group.
The charge further cited that the suspects allegedly attacked the security maintenance volunteers armed with dangerous weapons, including machetes, inflicting serious wounds on several of the vigilance group members.
Four male suspects were nabbed by the police, identified as Elue Nwaolise, Azuka Obata, Ifechukwude Ikewenji, and Osim Okelue, and brought before the Magistrate Court 1 in Ogwashi-Uku, Aniocha South Local Government Area of the state.
All hell broke loose, when the suspects were being taken to a nearby correctional center from the court, as the hoodlums launched a surprise attack on the police officials and freed the suspects who were still in handcuffs.
The Ogwashi-Uku community police have already begun a manhunt not only for the fleeing suspects but those behind the mob action in the court believed to be supporters of a certain chief in the community.
The state police command spokesman, DSP Bright Edafe, confirmed the incident saying, the police was on the trail of the illegally freed suspects and the perpetrators of the act of hooliganism at the premises of the magistrate court in Ogwashi-Uku.
