Security Agents Uncover a Bomb Factory in Kogi

Security operatives in Kogi have discovered Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), including five hand grenades and other chemicals for manufacturing such devices, in an uncompleted building in Kabba in Kogi.

The discovery was made yesterday in an uncompleted four-bedroom flat at Asunta Quarters, behind Baptist Primary School in the ancient city of Kabba.

A combined team of the State Security Service (SSS), police and the soldiers acting on intelligence report, cordoned off the building at about 2 p.m.,
They forced the iron doors open and with the aid of the Police Anti-Bomb Squad, recovered the devices.

Other items recovered included NPK brand of fertiliser, and other chemicals that are basic raw materials in the manufacturing of explosives.

Also recovered are army camouflage cap, saw, cables wires, transistor radio, batteries of different sizes and video CD players, used for testing the devices, but no arrest has been made.
The Commander, Police Anti-Bomb Squad, Mr Cletus Nzeji, said that all the recovered items would be taken to their laboratory for analysis.

He confirmed that the recovered five hand grenades were of high capacity capable of bringing down a three storey building

He said that investigations would reveal whether the devices belonged to armed robbers or Boko Haram religious sect, but promised that the suspects would be tracked down.

Nzeji said that the building where the items were discovered would be demolished, while the owner of the building would also be identified.

The landlord of the next building, Mr Hezekiah Omodamori, expressed shock at the discovery, and said that he never knew that the building was being used for criminal purposes.

Omodamori, a retired Chief Nursing Officer, also said that the owner of the house was not known to him and appealed to security agents to get to the root of the matter.

  It was gathered that in the last six months, there has been increased rate of attacks on police stations and banks in Kabba and environs involving the use of explosives.