Boko Haram: Bomb making factory discovered..

A Sun Newspaper report
From: UBONG UKPONG, Abuja

Arrowed: Building where bombs are allegedly manufactured in Nasarawa Iku Village, Suleja, Niger State (inset) one of the manufactured bombs PHOTO: NAN Photo: Sun News Publishing

The State Security Service (SSS) has arrested five members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect in connection with the April 8 and July 10 bombing of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office and the All Christian Fellowship Church respectively in Suleja, Niger State.

Briefing newsmen at the SSS Headquarters in Abuja, yesterday, the Assistant Director, Public Relations, Ms. Marilyn Ogar, disclosed that the Service also uncovered the building where the Boko Haram cell operating in the Suleja/Abuja axis manufactured and assembled bombs, revealing that the improvised explosive devices were assembled at a non-descript building located at a popular area known as Chechnya, Hayin-Uku village in Tafa LGA.

She declined to disclose the names of the suspects in line with the Service’s policy, but noted that several dangerous weapons were recovered from the suspects, who were said to have confessed to being members of Boko Haram operating in the Suleja-Abuja axis under the direction and control of a Boko Haram leader now at large.

Ogar said that investigation to unravel the Suleja bombings led to the arrest of a Nigerienne national on August 4, 2011, adding that his confession led to the arrest of a 3-year-old Imo State native who converted to Islam in 2003, explaining that the second suspect who is born of a Nigerienne mother was brought up in Niger Republic, where he had his early education.
Said Ogar: “The five suspects all confessed that the main supplier of the explosive materials used for their bombing operations is a miner from Nasarawa State who the service eventually arrested on August 30, 2011.

“They also confessed that they took part in the killing of four policemen at a checkpoint at Dakwa-Deidei in Bwari Area Council of the FCT on May 22, 2011. The suspects will soon be charged to court.”
The dangerous items recovered from the suspects by the Service as paraded were one ceiling fan coil, two laptops, 37 unused metallic oil filters; two metallic filters primed for bombing; two metallic cylinders and a clock connected to a primed bladeless ceiling fan with nine volts batteries ready for use.
Others were a Honda Civic car with registration number Borno AG 94 MNG, 200 pieces of detonators; battery connected to a detonator; two damaged detonators; a locally made revolver; one gun butt, two knives and 10 GSM handsets with SIM cards, among other things.
The Service also recovered pieces of shrapnel; red colour detonating cords; a Sony remote control, five battery chargers and a black bag containing detonating cables from the suspects.