The
Adamawa State Commissioner of Police, Gabriel Adaji, on Friday said the
command has discovered 19 high calibre bombs with which the Boko Haram
insurgents were planning to launch attacks on the troubled Northeastern
state.
Adaji told journalists during a news briefing that the bombs were discovered in Hong Local Government Area of the state.
He noted that the bombs were ready to be
used when they were detected, stressing that they were at 90 per cent
completion and only needed to be connected to batteries to detonate.
The commissioner who suspected that the
terror group wanted to use the bombs to disrupt the forthcoming
elections, revealed that the police in the state worked on a hint in the
media last week that some suspected suicide bombers were apprehended by
soldiers in Yola, and that some of the insurgents were still at large
within the town.
“This made us to beam our searchlight on some of the spots,” he said.
“Something
that would have caused a sorrow to the state was averted. One of the
bombs is capable of bringing down a 10-storey building.”
Adaji said many people would have been killed and several properties destroyed had the terrorists succeeded in their attempt.
He said the insurgents wanted to blow up
strategic structures including the over one kilometre River Benue
Bridge linking the state capital with Modibbo Adama University of
Technology, Yola and Mubi area.
“The bombs have been detonated by the
anti-bomb squad of the state police command, the feat has averted a
major calamity because some of the bombs were capable of destroying a
ten-storey building” he said
He noted that the bombs were on the
verge of being transported to various parts of Yola before they were
discovered, adding that the smallest among them can completely destroy
structures within 200 metre radius.
Source: Punch
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