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.
