The Imo
State Police Command on Thursday said it had uncovered a bomb factory at
Umuokirika village in Aboh-Mbaise Local Government Area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer,
Andrew Enwerem, said this in a meeting with journalists in Owerri, the state
capital.
Enwerem said acting on a tip-off, a
team of policemen from the Command had raided the site of the factory in
Umuokrika and arrested two members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the
Sovereign States of Biafra suspected to be the brains behind the illegal
factory.
One of the suspects found at the
site of bomb factory gave his name as Love Davidson, a resident of Nguru in
Aboh-Mbaise LGA of the state, while his accomplice is named Eze Charles from
Nsukka in Enugu State. A third suspect is believed to be on the run.
Although Davidson, in whose
residence the bomb factory was allegedly sited, denied ever being a part of the
syndicate involved in the illegal manufacture of Improvised Explosive Devices,
the Police recovered a drilling machine, gunpowder, tins of paint, threads, a
bucket and a bore used as shrapnel from the suspects.
However, the head of the Bomb Squad
at the Command, Omowaye Timothy, has since identified the items as components
used in making IEDs earlier found in some parts of the state a few months ago.
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