The Abia State Police Command has arrested the traditional ruler of Obala community in Obingwa Local Government Area, Eze Friday Ozioma Alozie, and four chiefs for allegedly aiding the escape of some arrested criminal suspects .
The monarch and four of his chiefs were arrested allegedly for refusing that the suspected criminals, who had earlier been on the wanted list of the police, be apprehended to face the law.
The three-member gang had earlier been nabbed by the police after a long manhunt.
The State Commissioner of Police, Jonathan Johnson, said the villagers and their monarch had blocked the police from taking away the suspects into custody.
A policeman was killed in the process of arresting the suspected gangsters, the commissioner said.
Johnson said the villagers later returned to the police station at night to shoot another policeman, who is now lying critically wounded at an undisclosed hospital.
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