Working
on credible intelligence at the disposal of the Nigeria Police Force indicating
that criminal militant elements are planning series of attacks on government
infrastructures and facilities in Lagos state, the Inspector General of Police,
IGP Ibrahim K. Idris NPM, mni, directed the Intelligent Response Team (IRT) to
use the Technical platform of the Force to trail and arrest the militant gang before
they carry out the heinous crime.
After a
painstaking surveillance and monitoring by the police (IRT) team, the principal
suspect Abiodun Amos alias SENTI who is the leader of the Militant Gang
planning to bomb the 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos was arrested on 2nd
of November, 2016 in a hideout at the bank of Majidun River in Ikorodu area of
Lagos State and two AK 47 rifles recovered from his possession.
The
principal suspect is an Ijaw man and a Native of Ese Odo LGA of Ondo State. He
is an Explosives Expert who specializes in assembling and modifying large scale
Improvised Explosives Devices (IED) for terrorist act. The suspect also
volunteered confessional statement to the Police and named other members of the
militant group that are still at large.
In the
course of further investigation into the case, one of the suspects at large
mentioned to the Police by the principal suspect as the person in possession of
their explosive devices and the detonators was trailed by the Police
(IRT) Operatives on the 26th December, 2016 while conveying in a
Toyota Camry Car, two (2) Cartons of Galantine Dynamite Explosives and Hundred
and twenty five (125) Detonators in the boot of the Car in a location in
Ikorodu area of Lagos state on his way to link up with the other members of the
militant gang to blow up the 3rd mainland bridge.
The
Suspect, on sighting the Intelligence Response Team Operatives jumped out of
the Car and escaped into the nearby Bush. The explosive devices and the
detonators were recovered by the Police IRT operatives and the Explosive
Ordinance Department, and the attack that would have been a major devastating
and colossus damage to Lagos state and Nigeria was averted. Further
investigation is being intensified to arrest all the other members of the
militant gang still at large.
The IGP
is hereby assuring all Nigerians of adequate security and commitment of the
Nigeria Police Force to work assiduously to nip in the bud militancy and other
forms of criminalities that can throw the country into a large scale mayhem and
massive loss of lives and properties.
He urges
every Nigerian to remain calm, be law abiding and see themselves as
stakeholders with the Force in making the country safer.
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