Two suspects who attempted to blow up Calabar /Itu bridge on October 5 have been arrested by the Akwa Ibom state police on Thursday. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Gabriel Achong, made this disclosure at a press conference in Uyo. Achong said on Sept. 20, the command received intelligence report that a group of aggrieved militants were planning to blow up the bridge.
He said the police, in collaboration with the State Security Service and the Army, traced the suspects from Odukpani in Cross River to Itu bridge where they were arrested. “On Sept. 20, the command received information that a group of aggrieved militants planned to blow up the Calabar/Itu Bridge.
“Upon thorough and intensive surveillance, on Oct. 5, the two suspects were arrested. “The suspects are Mr Samuel Coleman Yaw, a Ghanaian resident in Bakassi Local Government and Mr Monday Anthony of Ikang village also in Bakassi,’’ he said. He, however, said that the mastermind, Mr Boronyefa Olorogun alias General Bofa, who escaped, was traced to Yenagoa in Bayelsa and arrested by a combined team of police and DSS on October 17. Achong said 6 (Super power 90) explosives, 5 blasting laps, 3 rolls of detonating cords and 1 Honda Accord 1997 model were recovered from the suspects. The commissioner, therefore, appealed to the public to be vigilant and volunteer information to the police to enable them rid the society of criminals.
