source: Daily Independent (Nigeria); Blueprint; EONS Intelligence; Daily Champion
actor1: Unidentified Armed Group (Nigeria)
actor2: Police Forces of Nigeria (2015-)
location: Dikenafai
notes: On 5 January 2022, police forces clashed with unidentified armed men who attacked the police headquarters in Dikenafai (Ideato South, Imo). The assailants set the police station ablaze with explosive devices and released detainees; about three of the detainees were rearrested by local vigilantes as the assailants were fleeing with bullet wounds.