POLICE, on Saturday night, foiled an attempt to bomb a branch of Living
Faith Church (a.k.a Winners’ Chapel) in Owerri, Imo State, as they arrested six
persons while trying to plant two bombs on the premises of the church.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Abdulmajid Ali, on Sunday, said six
persons had been arrested in connection with two improvised explosive devices
(IEDs) planted in the church.
A reliable source close to the church, who did not want his name in
print, said that the incident occurred at about 8.00 p.m
on Saturday, when residents of the town were indoors, watching the ongoing
World Cup in Brazil.
The source said security men in the church noticed suspicious movements
in the area and, apparently worried as a result of the development, immediately
alerted the senior pastor of the church and security personnel in the state.
The police, it was gathered, immediately contacted some other security
agencies, including the soldiers, to effect the arrest of the six suspected suicide
bombers.
It was learnt that the suspects
had already planted one of the bombs with them at the entrance of the church.
While being interrogated, the suspects confessed that they were in
Owerri to bomb five churches in the state.
The usual 7.00 a.m church service of Winners Chapel, as a result of the
development, was shifted to Hero Square, near Concorde Hotel.
Speaking with newsmen on the church premises, Ali said the “two timed
bombs” were planted on the church premises by unknown persons.
According to the police commissioner, the command was alerted to the
strange objects in the church compound which immediately deployed its anti-bomb
squad.
“We are happy that the squad immediately detonated the bomb on arrival
and six persons have been arrested so far,” he said.
Ali said the command would do everything possible to unravel the
perpetrators of the act.
Also speaking, Brigade Commander, 34 Artillery Brigade, Owerri,
Brigadier-General Lanre Bello, confirmed that the explosives were capable of killing
many people at a time.
Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, reacting to the incident,
condemned the attempt to bomb the church.
Okorocha, while addressing newsmen, also commended the security agencies
for their timely intervention.
The governor urged the people of the state to be security conscious at
all times and report any strange object or movement around them to security
agencies.
Okorocha lamented that the explosives planted on the church premises
could have killed many innocent people if they had exploded.
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Is it not high time rocha's okorocha started restrictng & preventing these mohamediaNs d state,@doughlas is their den,ama hausa their abode,okigwe their cattle ranch,the begining of the end is here,had they succeded,u &i wll no the eventual calamity&uprising,that will ravage all the hausa communities in d entire east,frm oweeri,aba ,onitsha,garki enugu,ebonyi state,it will be a slaughtering ground.I hope they are very mindful of the recent past,we are all watching&@ alert,muslims let us be,hausa's free us Igbo's,bokoharam, a sect of the mohamed d@sucks blood,ur end is near.perhaps the actualization of the peoples repulic of biafara is here be warned. Rocha's better leave APC now,is still morning oohh,b4 we will call u a muslim&an housa sympathizer be warned,any carnage in this great Igbo enclave by bokoharam will affect u,e warned
ReplyDeleteOur God who turned d council of ehitophel in2 foolishness will also turn d activities and d effort of d bh in2 complete FULLISHNESS! IJN amen.
ReplyDeleteBoko Haram is making every effort to register their presence in the south. God will not allow them.
ReplyDeleteIn the north , nobody sees any suspicious movements . They only count dead bodies
ReplyDeleteWell I hope they face the problem squarely,they will be busy arresting only muslims and hausas while so many christians and southerners are actively involved in this attack and left unpurnished, some bcos they have problem with the leadership of the church, just as it was in jos and some part of the country.the Lord will see us through.
ReplyDeleteok, all have commented as they felt. but am still to read about the people they arrested, are they northern brothers or they media wants us to assume it were them. pls be acurate to avoid misleading the weaklings.
ReplyDeleteOkorocha, get ready n welcome ur brothers boko haram, a betrayal like U̶̲̥̅̊, apc hand work.marvelous.
ReplyDeleteI AM HALF EDO AND HALF IBO. BUT I STILL BELIEVE GOV ROCHAS NEED TO BE WARNED OF THESE MOHAMMEDANS HE IS SELLING HIS BROTHERS TO. GOV ROCHAS USE TO BE ONE PERSON WHO WHENEVER HE IS MAKING SPEECH ON TELEVISION, I LISTEN TO HIM WITH GREAT INTEREST. EVEN NEPA TAKES LIGHT, I ON MY GENERATOR JUST TO HEAR HIM SPEAK. I WAS SHOCKED, WHEN HE BETRAYED HIS PEOPLE BY DEFECTING TO APC a k a GBOKO HARAM. THE GOV NEEDS SERIOUS PRAYER
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