Police Uncover MASSOB Bomb Factory in Imo State The Imo State

The Imo State Police Command today said it had uncovered
a bomb factory at Umuokirika village in Aboh-Mbaise Local
Government Area of the state.
While in a meeting with journalists in Owerri, the state
capital, the Police Public Relations Officer, Andrew Enwerem,
said this.
Enwerem said acting on a tip-off, a team of policemen from
the Command had raided the site of the factory in
Umuokrika and arrested two members of the Movement for
the Actualisation of the
Sovereign States of Biafra suspected to be the brains behind
the illegal factory.
PUNCH reports that one of the suspects found at the site of
bomb factory gave his name as Love Davidson, a resident of
Nguru in Aboh-Mbaise LGA of the state, while his accomplice
is named Eze Charles from Nsukka in Enugu State. A third
suspect is believed to be on the run.
Although Davidson, in whose residence the bomb factory
was allegedly sited, denied ever being a part of the syndicate
involved in the illegal manufacture of Improvised Explosive
Devices, the Police recovered a drilling machine,
gunpowder, tins of paint, threads, a bucket and a bore used
as shrapnel from the suspects.
However, the head of the Bomb Squad at the Command,
Omowaye Timothy, has since identified the items as
components used in making IEDs earlier found in some
parts of the state a few months ago.