Nigeria, Aug. 21 -- The Special Adviser to Governor Chukwuma Soludo on Community Security, Ken Emeakayi, made the announcement at the agency's headquarters in Awka.

Emeakayi said the government acted swiftly after receiving reports of the incident, adding that the operatives would be handed over to the police for prosecution.

According to him, the dismissed officers were in pursuit of suspected cultists, when they attacked the corps member, an action he described as "totally outside the mandate of the agency and utterly condemnable."

Emeakayi noted that the Soludo administration never authorized any form of unprofessionalism, brutality or abuse of office by security operatives, adding that any officer found guilty of misconduct will fa...