Chidi Samuel
The police in Lagos has arrested, one Abioudun Amos, a suspected militant and member of a gang planning to blow up the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city. Items recovered from him include two AK 47 Rifles, two cartons of Explosives and Detonators.
Jimoh Moshood,an official of the Police Public Relation department who confirmed the the arrest, said the police were able to hunt down the gang after several weeks of meticulous follow up on intelligence information on the activities of some militants in Lagos and Ogun area, who have been gathering explosives to blow up the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State.
Abiodun is from Ese Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State was arrested at the bank of Majidun River in Ikorodu area of Lagos with two AK47 rifles hidden in a bag he brought from their hideout in the Creek.
A statement by the force also said that the suspect, on sighting police operatives deployed to Ikorodu on December 26 to apprehend him, jump out of his car and escaped to the bush.
“On Searching the Toyota Camry car two cartons of Gelatine Dynamite Explosives and hundreds of detonators were recovered in the boot of the car,” the statement read.
“Analysis of the GSM number of the arrested Suspect revealed his closed Associate in Ikorodu area of Lagos,” the police said.
The police say Abiodun has mentioned other members of the gang and efforts were on to arrest them.