The Nigerian police on Wednesday night
discovered and defused two improvised
explosive devices (IEDs) planted at a popular
eatery located around the Ikenegbu area of
Owerri, Nigerian eye reports.
Nigeria Telegraph reports that the anti-bomb
squad of the Imo state police command on
getting the news, arrived the scene and after
several hours of probing, confirmed there was
an IED capable of causing serious damage to
lives and property in the area.
The substance was reported to have been
carefully concealed in two strategic places within
the lobby of a popular eatery around Ikenegbu, a
commercial area within the city.
The Imo State Commissioner of Police,
Abdulmajid Ali, disclosed that a distress call was
placed across to the command around 9:30pm on
Wednesday night by the Manager of the eatery,
informing the Police about a substance suspected
to be an explosive device within the lobby of the
eatery.
He drafted the bomb squad of the Imo State
Police Command to the scene and after several
hours of battling with the substance, it was
confirmed to be an Improvised Explosive Device
capable of causing serious danger to lives and
property and was defused immediately.
He said that one of the IED was carefully
concealed beside the air conditioner in the lobby
of the eatery and the other placed somewhere on
the air conditioner outside the eatery.
While calling on Imo citizens to continue to
cooperate with the Nigerian Police by furnishing
them with adequate information, he assured the
people of the state that the Police would continue
to ensure proper protection of lives and property,
especially during the festive period, as all
measures have been put in place to combat any
form of crime in the state.
He confirmed that no arrest had been made but
investigations were ongoing.
It was the second time that the Imo State Police
Command would defuse IEDs within the Owerri
metropolis in 2014.
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