Arrested- IPOB Bomb Maker Responsible For Bombing Police Stations, Imo State Police
Police employable struck the bomb producing camp at Uba Umuaka in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State, following a tip-off.Operatives of the Imo State Police Command have captured and strutted one Simeon Onigbo, who is thought to be a bomb maker for the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its assailant wing, Eastern Security Network (ESN).
This was contained in an explanation gave by the State Police Public Relations Officer, Micheal Abattam.According to the assertion, police usable struck the bomb producing camp at Uba Umuaka in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State, following a hint.
Upon capture, the suspect admitted to assembling bombs used to go after police headquarters and government offices in the state.
Onigbo was said to have recorded names of different suspects in the bomb fabricating inside and outside the states.
The assertion peruses, “Spin-off of the adjusted and animated procedures emplaced by the Command’s supervisory crew under the watch of the Commissioner of Police, Imo Command, CP Mohammed Ahmed Barde, psc with the understanding of office, so as to checkmate vicious wrongdoings and guiltiness in the State.”In line with the Commissioner of Police methodology in stemming wrongdoing, the Command’s Tactical Teams following dependable insight got on 20/4/2022 at around 1700hours, uncovered the refuge of the restricted Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB/Eastern Security Network (ESN), its civilian army wing, where they are fabricating Improvised Explosive Devices utilized in going after Police Stations and Government offices in the state.
“The Police Operatives promptly activated to the refuge of the dread gathering situated at Uba Umuaka in Njaba LGA of Imo State and assaulted the camp.
“Throughout the assault, one Simeon Onigbo ‘male’ age 50 years was captured.
“On the spot cross examination, the suspect conceded being the producer of the vast majority of the Improvised Explosive Devices (I.E.Ds) utilized in going after police headquarters in the State and outside the State.
“On looking through the criminal hideaways things recuperated incorporate the accompanying: One previously pre-arranged Improvised Explosive Devices, Fifty-eight bits of Cannon Steel Pipe, Two Chisels, One Monday Hammer one and a half sack of Potassium Nitrate, thirty Pounds Weight of Sulfur, Forty Pounds Weight of dry Sand, Ten Fifty-eighth of Red Sand, Thirty Pounds Weight of Gun Powder, Half Bag of Charcoal, Thirty Electronic Motorcycle Batteries and Seven Lengths of Forty meters Iron Rods.”Meanwhile, the Command’s Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit (EOD) has assumed control over the recuperated bomb for specialized examination and hence for conceivable explosion millimeters, the examination is progressing, the suspect has offered helpful expressions and referenced individuals from his packs outside the State who belittle him. Agents of the Command are not yielding and all endeavors are on top stuff to capture different suspects.”