The Anambra State Police Command has rejected the assertion that 21 soldiers were murdered by gunmen in the state.
There have been reports on social media since Tuesday claiming that 21 soldiers who were traveling to Enugu State were surrounded and killed in Onitsha, Anambra State, on Monday evening.
But in response to the report in a statement on Wednesday, the spokesperson for the Anambra State Police Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, dismissed the claims, calling them “misleading”, “unfounded” and “false”.
The statement stated, “The Anambra State Police Command is aware of a misleading, unfounded, and false report titled, ‘Gunmen kill 21 soldiers in Anambra’, recently spread by some online media and national dailies.
“The Command wants to state that the report is false, a product of fiction, and the work of mischief-makers.
“Also, the Command, in shock at the news, has noticed that the mentioned hospital in the report, where the bodies of the soldiers are supposed to be kept, does not exist in Awka, the state capital.
“Further inquiries were made by the Command, revealing that there is no record of such an incident or otherwise, but deliberate acts by unscrupulous individuals to cause tension in the state.”
Ikenga also stated that the Command would not hesitate to enforce relevant cyber laws on individuals found guilty in this regard.
“However, the Command urges the public to ignore the report,” he added.
