FOLLOWING the recent violence and series of bomb blast in Kaduna, the State Police Command yesterday, said it has uncovered a bomb making-factory at the Rafin Guza area of Kaduna metropolis, where already manufactured explosives and other weapons were recovered.

Conducting journalists round the residential building, where a bomb exploded Friday night, killing one and injuring three, the Police Commissioner in Charge of election duties in Kaduna, Haruna John, said the police has arrested eight persons, three of whom were critically injured during the blast, which he said occurred at about 6.00pm on Friday.

The police boss, however, said that the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, had constituted an investigation team, which would soon arrive Kaduna to investigate the various bomb explosions in the state and other parts of the country in recent times, with a view to bringing the culprits and their sponsors to book.

According to him, “on the 22nd of April, 2011, at about 18,00 hours, the sound of an explosion was heard somewhere at Rafin Guza. Police and Airforce patrol teams raced to the scene and arrested three suspects at No 5 Matazu Road, Rafin Guza (Isa Hassan Road was written on the wall of the house), Kawo, Kaduna, where the blast occurred inside the property of one Alhaji Idris Abdullahi of Dan Ama Road, Rigachikwu.

“All three suspects had sustained serious injuries from the blast and were rushed to various hospitals for medical attention. The corpse of one Ismail Ibrahim from Kano state, who was killed by the bomb blast was recovered and deposited at the mortuary.

“With information provided by well-meaning Nigerians, we traced another victim who had escaped from the scene with the aid of a Honda civic car to where he had gone to seek medical attention and arrested him.

“During interrogation, they made useful statements, which led to the arrest of five others who are apprentice bomb makers. They are currently assisting the police in its investigations.   “One of those arrested has been confirmed to be a notorious kingpin of a sect that wrecked havoc in Bauchi and Borno states, where he has been declared wanted.”

According to him, while combing the area, the bomb disposal unit of the police recovered from the rooms in the house three highly charged locally made bombs in vegetable oil gallons and in a steel casing, adding that “these high-calibre explosives are capable of causing massive destruction.”

Other items recovered from the house, he said, include two Lar riffles, already cocked and ready to be fired with two live ammunitions, but no magazines, pointing out that the whereabout of the magazines is still being investigated.

He noted that the riffles recovered were not the type used by the Nigerian Armed Forces or the police, pointing out that they were the types being used by the so-called fake soldiers to attack innocent people in their homes.

Four locally made pistols, two locally made Dane guns (cut to size), three machetes, one green military belt, one international passport, various identity cards, a party flag and a red Honda civic car with registration number AZ 632KDA were also recovered.

-Guardian

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