Two indigenes of Ebonyi State have been arrested for plotting to bomb Imo State.
According to the Imo State Police Commissioner, Dasuki Galandachi, the two suspects were arrested by the Police Mobile Force 18 Squadron in the state as they made their way to bomb a community in Orlu town.
He identified the arrested suspects as Friday Echereobia, 28, and Ozioma Nwosu, 30.
Galandachi, while parading the suspects at the Imo State Police Command Headquarters in Owerri on Wednesday, said, “The operatives of the Police Mobile Force 18 Squadron during a routine stop and search duty at their checkpoint by the UBA junction in Orlu, arrested the suspects, who were on a motorcycle and in possession of a suspicious looking object.
“Upon discrete interrogation and investigation, the object was discovered to be an Improvised Explosive Device or homemade bomb.”
“The suspects revealed that the IED was handed over to them on November 7, at Effiong in Ebonyi State, where they converge to hold their meetings, and from where they moved down to Ihiagwa, Owerri West LGA in Imo State and given the IED by one Chijioke Jimmy, an indigene of Ebonyi State, who is resident in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.”
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