Operatives of the Imo State Police Command have arrested a suspected member of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, Simeon Onigbo alleged to be manufacturing bombs for the group.
The Police spokesperson Mike Abattam in a statement he signed on behalf of the Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Barde quoted Barde to have said that the suspect had since confessed to the crime and promised to reveal the hideouts of the terror group.
The statement alleged that Onigbo used to produce locally-made bombs used in attacking police divisions and other government facilities in Imo.
The statement read, “In the course of the raid, one Simeon Onigbo, aged 50, was arrested. The suspect admitted to being the manufacturer of most of the ( IEDs) used in attacking police stations in and outside the state.
“On searching the hideout, items recovered include one IED, 58 pieces of Cannon Steel Pipe, two Chisels, one Monday Hammer, one bag of Potassium Nitrate, and substances suspected to be sulphur weighing 30 pounds.
“Other items are dry Sand weighing 40 pounds and red sand weighing 10 pounds, gun powder weighing 30 pounds, spa half bag of charcoal, 30 pieces of Electronic Motorcycle Batteries, and Seven Lengths of eight millimeters iron rods,” he said.
The CP said that the Command’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit (EOD) had taken over the recovered bomb for technical analysis and detonation.