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BY IKHILI EBALU, BENIN CITY
Edo State Police Command said Operatives of the Command attached to Fugar Divisional headquarters while on routine patrol along Auchi/Agenebode Road arrested a man ,Michael Akhigbe , (46) a native of Iyuku Uzairue, Auchi in Etsako West LGA of Edo State.
He said the man was arrested when his vehicle a Sienna bus enroute Agenebode with ten (10) passengers,was searched and items suspected to be explosive devices were found in a bag of one of the passengers.
This was contained in a press release made available to journalists in Benin City and signed by the Public Relations Officer,SP Kontongs Bello.
KONTONGS BELLO, said some of the items recovered from the suspect bag are; 5 high explosive 60mm and 50 surpreme card relay.
According to him, ‘ the suspect is cooperating with police investigation while further investigation led to the arrest of two more suspects namely; Yesufu Blessing , a native of Iyuku Uzairue resident in Auchi a quary blaster and Haruna Braimah , a tiper driver also a native of Iyuku Uzairue and resident in Auchi .
He further stated that, the Commissioner of Police, CP Abutu Yaro, has directed the command’s Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit (EOD) to take over the recovered explosive devices for technical analysis while investigation continues and assured the residents to be calm and go about their lawful businesses
CP Abutu Yaro, assured of reduction in crime and directed all area Commanders , tactical heads and Divisional police Officers to engage in intelligence gathering, bush combing in their areas of jurisdictions and hideout of criminals have since started yielding positive results.
