Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, and private security operatives attached to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, branch in Awka, Anambra State, were involved in an altercation at the Weather Head Estate in Awka, causing pandemonium among residents.
Sources said the private security operatives led by the Chief Security Officer, CSO, of the CBN in Awka, confronted men of the NSCDC, who were in the estate on legitimate duty to rescue a missing child.
DAILY POST gathered that the operatives of the NSCDC were at the estate after a petition to them over a four-year-old child who was taken from her nursery school in Awka, without the permission of her guardian.
The source said the parents of the child were estranged, with the baby left in the care of the father, fueling suspicion that the mother of the child may have orchestrated her removal from the school.
The child was tracked by the NSCDC operatives to a building in the estate, and they were about to rescue her when a man said to have identified himself as the Chief Security Officer of CBN in Awka, arrived in a sky-blue Lexus RX 330 SUV and obstructed the NSCDC operatives, whisking away the child.
Our source said, “The incident happened in my estate and generated a huge tension as both sides of the security men challenged each other, with guns corked.
“Many people in the residential estate took to their heels, hiding far away from the incident to avoid being caught up in a shootout.”
Meanwhile, the phone lines of the Head of Media and Tactical Operations of the NSCDC Anambra Command, Okadigbo Edwin, were not reachable when our correspondent tried to confirm the report.
DAILY POST gathered that the Anambra State command of the NSCDC has written to the Awka branch of NSCDC over the conduct of the CSO, while calling for an investigation into the matter, insisting that their operatives were on legitimate duty.
