We’ve found IPOB’s biggest bomb factory in Ebonyi – Police

The Ebonyi State Police Command said on Thursday that its operatives had uncovered “the biggest bomb factory in the South-East” operated by the Indigenous People of Biafra and its militia arm, Eastern Security Network

The command’s spokesman, Chris Anyanwu, said in a statement that the discovery was made in an operation during which two IPOB members were killed in a shootout.

Somebody said to be a commander of the IPOB in the state was arrested, Anyanwu said.

“The invasion of the criminals’ den was necessitated by an earlier encounter between operatives of the command’s Tactical Teams, sequel to credible information gathered that the hoodlums were operating with a Toyota Sienna bus which they robbed at gunpoint from the owner within Ishielu area,” he said.

Anyanwu said one “Sunday Ubah aka Bongo, the state commander of the IPOB/ESN in Ebonyi State”, was arrested.

He said a few police officials sustained minor bullet wounds, adding that a team of military and Department of State Services conducted a search on the houses of the suspects, leading to the recovery of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and items used in making such devices.

“The police bomb expert in the Command described it as a complete bomb factory – the biggest in the South-East; each of the hand grenades (first of its kind) is capable of causing colossal damage to buildings and mass killing of humans,” Anyanwu said.

Police said items recovered included, “30 pieces of IEDs using safety fuses primed in non-electric initiator/detonator, 63 wraps of super power 90mm gelatin, two solar prime 90mm gelatin, 16 Danger 90 gelatin, 20 Ideal power 90 gelatin 50mm, and 239 pieces of plain non-electric detonators, four long-range riot gunners, and police and military uniforms, among others.