The Anambra State Police commissioner, CP Echeng Eworo, has actually advised indigenes of the state to avoid mob action that can lead to deaths

. This is coming as 2 alleged armed robbers satisfied their waterloo in Onitsha, beside Conoil filling station, along the express roadway on Wednesday.

The supposed burglars were stated to have begun a motorcycle and robbed some Awada citizens of their cash, phones and other items and shot in the air to frighten people, prior to trying to leave.

A source stated the burglars were unfortunate as they were provided a hot chase, and were caught after the MCC Junction, where the residents placed the motorbike on top of them and burnt them.

Reacting to this, Eworo advised the members of the public, who turn to jungle justice, to exercise restraint and turn over suspects to the police for correct investigation.

In a press release provided to DAILY POST by the representative for Anambra State Police Command, DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, the commissioner was estimated as saying: “Information exposed that at about 5:30 pm on 19/1/2022, the yet unknown armed suspects, operating with a bike, robbed some persons in their shops at Awada.

“During a hot chase by a mad mob when they found the robbers were utilizing a toy gun, confronted the suspects at Oraifite street by Ogbo bread and set them ablaze with their motorbikes.”

The Commissioner, who frowned at such an act, thanked the members of the public for assisting the authorities in capturing thought wrongdoers but urged them to constantly exercise restraint by not taking the law into their hands.

“They must endeavour to take such suspects to the nearby Police Station whenever they are nabbed. This would pay for the Police the opportunity to conduct a suitable examination into the dubious activities of the suspects, and bring them to justice in accordance with extant laws,” he said.