IED event in Imo, Uba Umuaka area, Nigeria on Fri 22nd April 2022

The police in Imo State, on Friday, disclosed the arrest of a 50-year-old suspected to be a bomb maker for the Indigenous People of Biafra. “On searching the criminals’ hideouts, items recovered include the following: one already prepared Improvised Explosive Device, fifty-eight pieces of Cannon Steel Pipe, two chisels, one hammer one and a half-bag of Potassium Nitrate, thirty pounds weight of Sulphur, fourty pounds weight of dry sand, ten pounds weight of red sand, thirty pounds weight of gun powder, half-bag of charcoal, thirty electronic motorcycle batteries and seven lengths of eight millimeters iron rods. Meanwhile, the Command’s Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit has taken over the recovered bomb for technical analysis and subsequently for possible detonation."