Sit-at-home order: Anambra hoodlums set bus ablaze, driver escapes

Persons suspected to be members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Tuesday reportedly set ablaze a bus while enforcing the sit-at-home order of the group.

IPOB had declared the sit at home in commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the alleged military invasion of the home of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu in Afaraukwu, Abia State.

Members of the group were said to have attacked innocent persons around 9.30am on Tuesday along Nanka-Oko road in Anambra.

While the driver of the bus was lucky to escape, the miscreants set the bus and a tricycle ablaze.

Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, said the command received a distress call on Tuesday at about 9.30am on a case of arson and malicious damage along Nanka/Oko road.

He said on receipt of the call, policemen on the ground immediately mobilised to the scene and brought the situation under control.

According to him, normalcy has been restored in the area and people are going about their business.

Ikenga also said the command and other security agencies in the state were intensifying patrols and surveillance to stop further breakdown of law and order.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the attackers stopped the tricycle and the commercial bus, chased occupants away and set the vehicle and tricycle on fire, he stated.

He said that no loss of life was recorded.