The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has announced the success recorded
by its men in aborting the scheme by some aggrieved ex-militants to
blow up the Calabar-Itu Bridge.
The arrest of the mastermind of the plot, Boronyefa Olorogun, alias
General Bofa, was carried out through a link from two suspects: Samuel
Coleman Yaw, a Ghanaian who lives in Bakassi, and one Monday Anthony
from Bakassi local government area of Cross River State. The two were
earlier arrested following a tip off, the police had disclosed.
The
Commissioner of Police in the state, Gabriel Achong, while narrating
this feat to newsmen at the State Police Command Headquarters on
Thursday, said the Command received information on the planned attack
and promptly lunched an intensive surveillance which led to the arrests.
The police chief, who disclosed that the suspects admitted to
committing the crime, noted that items recovered from the suspects
include; six (super power 90) explosives, five blasting laps, three
rolls of detonating cords, one bundle of extra detonating cord and one
Honda Accord 1997 model.
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