31-Year-Old Lady Arrested With Three Explosive Devices

Category: Crime News

One Aniebet John, 31, has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Cross River with suspected Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs.

Commandant of NSCDC in the state, Samuel Fadeyi, parading the suspect on Tuesday at the command’s headquarters in Calabar, said NSCDC officers arrested the suspect on June 25.

Fadeyi confirmed that the suspect was arrested with the three explosives including three connecting components.

According to him, the suspect was arrested in Akamkpa Local Government Area (LGA) of the state while trying to waybill the explosives to an unidentified source in Obubra LGA of the state.

“The lady was trying to send the device she had sealed in a nylon bag to Obubra LGA.

“Sending explosives through public transport is illegal, therefore we had course to intercept this lady who said somebody sent her to send it to another person.

“We are on the trail of the other suspects who are also involved in it but now at large,” he mentioned.

The Commandant noted that after investigation, they found out that the husband of the suspect is a blast master who works in a construction company.

He explained that the suspected explosives were some of those used in one of the construction companies in Akamkpa which the husband might have smuggled.