Police foil attempt to blow Calabar/Itu bridge in A’Ibom Uyo – The Akwa Ibom Police Command on Thursday said it had foiled an attempt by two ex-militants to blow up Calabar/Itu bridge on Oct. 5. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Gabriel Achong, disclosed this at a press conference in Uyo. Achong said on Sept. 20, the command received intelligence report that a group of aggrieved militants were planning to blow up the bridge. He said the police, in collaboration with the State Security Service and the Army, traced the suspects from Odukpani in Cross River to Itu bridge where they were arrested. “On Sept. 20, the command received information that a group of aggrieved militants planned to blow up the Calabar/Itu Bridge. “Upon thorough and intensive surveillance, on Oct. 5, the two suspects were arrested. “The suspects are Mr Samuel Coleman Yaw, a Ghanaian resident in Bakassi Local Government and Mr Monday Anthony of Ikang village also in Bakassi,’’ he said. He, however, said that the mastermind, Mr Boronyefa Olorogun alias General Bofa, who escaped, was traced to Yenagoa in Bayelsa and arrested by a combined team of police and DSS on October 17. Achong said 6 (Super power 90) explosives, 5 blasting laps, 3 rolls of detonating cords and 1 Honda Accord 1997 model were recovered from the suspects.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:46:59 +0000
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