The Taraba State Police Command has arrested a suspected bomb manufacturer who also is a member of the Boko Haram terrorist group linked to three bomb explosions recorded in the state this year.
The suspect, identified as Bala Usman ‘M was arrested in his house which he uses as a factory at Tella town within Gassol Local Government area of the state.
He was apprehended with different arms, ammunition, explosives, and devices for manufacturing bombs.
Authorities say the suspect who is from Zamfara State, and is being held at the Taraba Police Command in Jalingo, is also a member of a kidnapping syndicate terrorizing, Niger, Kogi and Taraba states for more than a year now.
On April 19th and 22nd this year two improvised explosive devices exploded killing no fewer than 10 persons in two separate attacks in Taraba State, both at drinking joints.
About 18 days after, another explosion occurred at the headquarters of six brigade Nigeria army located in the state capital.
Acting on credible intelligence, the police swung into action leading to the arrest of the bomb manufacturer.
The Police Commissioner revealed that during a search in the premises of the suspect at Tella town, items suspected to be components for the manufacturing of bombs, buried in the ground within the house were recovered. They include: 199 pieces of 7. 6mm live ammunition, 558 assault live ammunition, and one pistol breech No. CZ, 999 scorpion with six (6) rounds of live ammunition, twenty plastic bottles of sodium azide acid, 8 plastic bottles of kermi acid, 27 plastic bottles of locally made bomb, 3 face mask, 3 pull over jackets, a bunch of cable wire, 3 lighters, 2 empty magazines of AK 47 rifle and an assault rifle
Parading the 37 year old native, the state’s Commissioner of Police, Abimbola Sokoya revealed that the police have sprayed their dragnet and soon operatives will capture two other suspects who are currently at large even as investigations continue.
