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The Akwa Ibom Police Command on Thursday said it had foiled an attempt by two ex-militants to blow up Calabar/Itu bridge on October 5.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Gabriel Achong, disclosed this at a press conference in Uyo.
Achong said on September 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.
"Upon thorough and intensive surveillance, on October 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.
The police commissioner said the command also arrested two sea pirates, Mr Victor Godbless and Umjiejong Jonah, natives of Ngo town in Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers on Sept. 30.
He said the pirates were arrested through a tip off by residents of Ndito Eka Iba village, a coastal town in Mbo LGA in Akwa Ibom.
He listed the items recovered from them to include 2 engines (one 200HP and one 75H); 2 live 7.65mm ammunition and dismantled parts of a pump action gun.
The commissioner appealed to the public to be vigilant and volunteer information to the police to enable them rid the society of criminals.
#AkwaIbom #Calabar #Itu
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Gabriel Achong, disclosed this at a press conference in Uyo.
Achong said on September 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.
"Upon thorough and intensive surveillance, on October 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.
The police commissioner said the command also arrested two sea pirates, Mr Victor Godbless and Umjiejong Jonah, natives of Ngo town in Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers on Sept. 30.
He said the pirates were arrested through a tip off by residents of Ndito Eka Iba village, a coastal town in Mbo LGA in Akwa Ibom.
He listed the items recovered from them to include 2 engines (one 200HP and one 75H); 2 live 7.65mm ammunition and dismantled parts of a pump action gun.
The commissioner appealed to the public to be vigilant and volunteer information to the police to enable them rid the society of criminals.
#AkwaIbom #Calabar #Itu