The police spokesman, Henry Okoye, said the suspects were arrested after a shootout with the police at Irete community along the Onitsha Road.
The Imo State Police Command said it has arrested 26 enforcers of the illegal sit-at-home order by some suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
The police also arrested 53 other suspects involved in criminal activities ranging from conspiracy, armed robbery, murder, defilement, kidnapping, child trafficking, unlawful possession of prohibited firearms, car snatching and vandalisation of electrical cables.
On Wednesday, at a press conference at the Command headquarters in Owerri, the state capital, the police spokesman in the state, Henry Okoye said the sit-at-home enforcers suspected to be IPOB members were arrested and investigation ongoing.
