[size=14pt]Task force discovers bomb factory in troubled Jos[/size]
By Ugar Ukandi Odey
March 23, 2011 07:20AM

The Special Task Force in Jos discovered extensive bomb making equipment in a house located at the Millionaires Quarters, around the city centre, yesterday.

Military officers on a routine check stopped two men, Damtala Babawo and Peter Gotung, who claimed to be commercial motorcyclists, and found bomb making items in their polythene bags. Parading the suspects before journalists at the task force headquarters, spokesperson of the force, Charles Ekeocha said the hideout was discovered following the arrest of the two men.

“Our men arrested two men at the Lamingo junction (Jos North area) with some items in a black polythene bag. When they examined the content, they discovered they were bomb manufacturing instruments,” Mr Ekeocha said. “The two men were arrested, and when we interrogated them, they made statements that led us to this house at Millionaires Quarters where we discovered these items you are seeing.” Mr Ekeocha said the military had to go to court to get a search warrant before it launched the search.

“It was a cordon and search exercise and we discovered various equipment of bomb making value there. The real suspect, one Frank Anyor, had escaped before we got there. But we are holding one Terdo Anyor, his junior brother, whom we found in the house,” he said.

Shocking discovery

The equipment recovered, according to Mr Ekeocha include: A detonating cord, 33 electric detonators, a PH temperature monitoring metre, one briefcase containing PH metre, a handy lab, one conical flask, and two titronic machines. There were also an electrode, ERSA test tube, a briefcase of tubes for bomb making, an instructional manual on bomb making, a pamphlet on bomb making and a Hameg counter for timing.

Mr. Ekeocha also mentioned the discovery of four axis oster telescopes, extension wires, battery chargers, Imasol cleaning oil for telescope, measuring wheel for lamp cord, a carton of dynamite, theodolite, one safety fuse, and 27 detonators.

He said the suspects will be handed over to the police for further investigations and announced that the task force have received more reinforcement, especially security patrol vehicles, from the defence headquarters yesterday morning.

Meanwhile, an attack on Baten village in Wereng district of Riyom Local Government Area Monday night left two women and two children dead. The assailants escaped as the villagers mustered an immediate counter attack.

A lingering crisis

The build-up to the Jos crises which have lingered on for years took a morbid twist in March 2010 when unidentified herdsmen attacked a village; Dogo Nahawa in the early hours of the day and killed hundreds of children and women. Ever since, there have been series of similar killings across Plateau State, with few suspects jailed.

The crisis seems to have both ethnic and religious dimensions with ethnic issues paramount as ethnic groups: the Berom, Anaguta, Afizere and the Hausa-Fulani, all claiming pre-eminence and the question of who was “indigene” or “settler” causing serious problems.

Religion was infused into the crisis during the last Christmas eve when three bombs were detonated across different locations in the state as Christians were busy shopping for the event. The explosion claimed about 40 lives with a number of others injured. However, religious leaders, such as the Sultan of Sokoto; Sa’ad Abubakar and president of the Christian Association of Nigerian; Ayo Oritsejafor, immediately called a press conference and insisted that the conflicts in the Plateau State capital were not religious, but political.

The state governor, Jonah Jang in a state wide broadcast alleged that, “the aim of the masterminds is to put Christians against Muslims and spark up another round of violence.” He claimed that it was part of the calculated attempts to scuttle the peace achieved from the efforts of the state and federal government.

Both the state government and federal government have set up a number of panels to look into the root causes of the crises and a number of reports have been issued by the committees whose recommendations were not implemented.

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Jos is Nigeria's very own Kabul. Can't wait to hear them suicide bomb themselves

Now is clear who are the mastermind behind the trouble in our beautiful city of Jos, God will continue to exposed them.

How many more bomb factories are out there?
Is it not shocking that after several bombing cases, Factories like this still manage to evade the watchful eyes of Nigerian military/Police?---{excuse the irony please}

It's very disturbing that security operatives in Nigeria are dependent only on rare coincidences such as stop and search operations to effectively police and secure a state.

I shudder at the thoughts of an event where the aforementioned Okada hadn't passed through the stop and search zones, which apparently would lead to no arrests and the said Bomb Factory would not have been discovered.

If the Government devotes a fraction of the money spent importing dustbins on  intelligence gathering, who knows how many lives might have been saved,  . .This is what we get when we allow clueless airheads to lead a nation

Nigeria is faulty!

DAY11.:

Nigeria is faulty!

I'd take that as a breaking news

This is serious

REMEMBER THOSE 13 CONTAINERS THAT WAS EARLIER STOPPED AT THE WHARF, I GUESS THE NUMBER WAS NOT JUST 13, SOME ACTUALLY WENT THROUGH CUSTOMS,

Who owns the house?

boyyyyyyyy:

Now is clear who are the mastermind behind the trouble in our beautiful city of Jos, God will continue to exposed them.

Amen

Nigeria is faulty

@DAY 11 Ur Brain & everyting about u is faulty not Our Great Country Nigeria

There's some major financing behind this $hit. Problem is, that source is the same from which the Police will be compromised and the culprits freed to go and sin even more.

I weep for our Nation. Really do.

Are labels on these materials?
who manufacture them?
Are they home made or imported?
If imported, from where?

Military officers on a routine check stopped two men, [color=#990000]Damtala Babawo and Peter Gotung, who claimed to be commercial motorcyclists, and found bomb making items in their polythene bags. Parading the suspects before journalists at the task force headquarters, spokesperson of the force, Charles Ekeocha said the hideout was discovered following the arrest of the two men.[/color]

Damtala Babawo = Hausa/Muslim from the north
Peter Gotung = From Jos probably/Christian

Speechless!!


After April we will search and flush them all out!

BB All The Way

heartless people.God punish 'em all.

Beaf!:

Are labels on these materials?
who manufacture them?
Are they home made or imported?
If imported, from where?

Military officers on a routine check stopped two men, [color=#990000]Damtala Babawo and Peter Gotung, who claimed to be commercial motorcyclists, and found bomb making items in their polythene bags. Parading the suspects before journalists at the task force headquarters, spokesperson of the force, Charles Ekeocha said the hideout was discovered following the arrest of the two men.[/color]

Damtala Babawo = Hausa/Muslim from the north
Peter Gotung = From Jos probably/Christian

Speechless!!


After April we will search and flush them all out!

BB All The Way

So you fool impersonating me, is from the North? LOL!

gaskydudu:

Who owns the house?

I imagine he is singing new songs under SSS detention.

The bastards should be followed to their bomb factory and every body (irrespective of position) financing the factory should be executed.

Surprisingly, I did not see any remote detonators in the list.

Chei!
Hand them over to d Police?
My greatest wish is: that d Police CAN & WILL do a thorough investigation, then do a proper prosecution.
We wanna know:
what country d arms came from, who imported/paid for them, who cleared or smuggled them in; did any public officer co-conspire; who owns/rented d building; who were d bomb-making instructors; trainees, financier(s), paid workers; targets destroyed by them, future targets & many many more.

@eros
I do know. That Was why I exclaimed. We all know d Police & their antecedents.
Annoyingly, d Army/Special Task Force does not have d power to prosecute them.
So its left to d SSS & Police. Shi ki na!

Beaf!:

Are labels on these materials?
who manufacture them?
Are they home made or imported?
If imported, from where?

Military officers on a routine check stopped two men, [color=#990000]Damtala Babawo and Peter Gotung, who claimed to be commercial motorcyclists, and found bomb making items in their polythene bags. Parading the suspects before journalists at the task force headquarters, spokesperson of the force, Charles Ekeocha said the hideout was discovered following the arrest of the two men.[/color]

Damtala Babawo = Hausa/Muslim from the north
Peter Gotung = From Jos probably/Christian

Speechless!!


After April we will search and flush them all out!

BB All The Way

Correction
In this part of the country, you can not really tell the religion by the name because many northern christians bear muslim-sounding names which are actually tribal or Hausa names e.g. Damtala Babawo; this person is most likely non-Hausa/Fulani and definitely not a muslim. Just educating u.

whewwwwwwwww, tired of being Nigerian. Pls my fellow Nigerians, let us use our God-given brains and intelligence to build our nation. These killings will take us nowhere. Our leaders have already cheated us by not doing what God put them there to do.Let us join hands to develop our country instead of developing bombs. So, so very sad indeed. So help us God.

Hmmmm na wha ooo

Is that the bomb squad?

That picture there shows how united Nigeria has become under PDP rule . . . . in fact, Jonathan Goodluck has united the whole nation . . . the country is more secure than it has ever been before ooo!!!