Four days after the
arrest of a wanted Boko Haram member in Ikorodu area of Lagos, another suspect
from a different group has been arrested in the same community for
planning to
bomb the Third Mainland Bridge in the state.
Police authorities
in Abuja have identified the suspect caught with dynamites as Abiodun Amos,
also known as Senti.
Amos was described
as an Ijaw native of Arogbo, from Ese-Odo Local Government of Ondo State and a
leading member of a Niger Delta Militant group, operating from the creeks of
Ikorodu and Arepo areas of Lagos and Ogun states.
He was arrested by
operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response
Team (IRT), who allegedly trailed him to a river bank at the Majidun area of
Ikorodu, in Lagos.
According to the
police, two Ak47 rifles, hidden in a big bag, was found in the suspect’s possession.
He later led detectives to a vehicle parked somewhere in Ikorodu, from where
dynamites and detonators were recovered from the boot.
Amos arrest was
hastened by intelligence report from the office of the National Security
Adviser to the President (NSA) which was passed on to the Inspector General of
Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris, indicating that the group was at his final stage of
carrying out an attack on the Third Mainland Bridge.
The leader of the
militant group, known as General Ossy Ibori, was suspected to have coordinated
most of the bank robberies and several high profile kidnappings, including that
of three school girls, at Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School in Ikorodu,
four landlords at Isheri North Area of Lagos; Oniba of Ibaland, Oba Goriola
Oseni among others, within Lagos and Ogun states.
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