IPOB pipe bomb manufacturer busted

Men of the Imo state police command on April 20th, raided an IPOB hideout where they manufacture Improvised Explosive Devices.

According to CSP Michael Abattam,  spokesperson of the state police command,  the police operatives received an intelligence report and immediately mobilised to the hideout of the terror group located at Uba Umuaka in Njaba LGA of Imo State and raided the camp.

“In the course of the raid, one Simeon Onigbo ‘m’ age 50 years was arrested. On the spot  interrogation, the suspect admitted being the manufacturer of most of the Improvised Explosive Devices ( I.E.Ds) used in attacking police stations in the State and outside the State.

“On searching the criminal hideouts items recovered includes the following: One already prepared IED, fifty eight pieces of cannon steel pipe, two chisels, one Monday hammer one and a half bag of potassium nitrate, thirty pounds weight of sulphur, forty pounds weight of dry sand, ten pounds weight of red sand, thirty pounds weight of gunpowder, half Bbag of charcoal, thirty electronic motorcycle batteries and seven lengths of 8 millimeters iron rods.

“Meanwhile, the Command’s Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit (EOD) has taken over the recovered bomb for technical analysis and subsequently for possible detonation, “he said

The police spokesman said investigation is ongoing and that the suspect has made useful statement about other members of his gangs outside the state who patronise him.