On Monday night, gunmen burned down the Afor Atta Divisional Police Headquarters in Imo State's Njaba Local Government Area.
This happened just a few hours after a convoy carrying a former governor of the state, Ikedi Ohakim, was attacked, killing four of his police orderlies.
According to a community source, the attackers got to the police station and threw explosives on it, causing it to burn.
Prime9jaOnline gathered that no police officers were on duty when the attackers struck.
The source said, “The police station in my community has been burnt. It was burnt last night. Nobody could come out because of fear. As we speak, the area is desserted.”
The same police station was in June 2021 vandalised after two courts beside it were burnt.
The spokesperson for the police in the state, Micheal Abattam, had yet to issue a statement concerning the incident.