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The Niger State Police Command has uncovered a substantial cache of explosive devices, including bombs and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), buried in various locations across the state.
The explosive materials are suspected to have been concealed by terrorists and bandits who have been terrorising several local government areas, including Shiroro, Munya, and Minna.
The discovery resulted from comprehensive counter-insurgency operations conducted between 2021 and 2023.
According to the Command's spokesman, Wasiu Abiodun, the operations were a collaborative effort between the police and otCommand'sity agencies in the state.
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"The Commissioner of Police, CP Shawulu Danmamman, directed the destruction of the improvised explosive devices and bombs recovered from different locations during these operations," Abiodun stated, according to Punch.
These devices were successfully neutralised on August 22, 2024, at a site behind Zuma Rock in Suleja, under the supervision of SP Mohammed Mamun, the Officer in Charge of the EOD-CBRN Unit.
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Among the recovered items were four pipe-borne IEDs, explosives concealed in military missile shells, and suspected military hand grenades.
This discovery comes just a week after suspected bandits brutally killed 13 farmers in the state.
Galadima-Kogo, one of the sites where the explosives were found, was previously the scene of a devastating bomb explosion in 2022 that claimed the lives of several officers from the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps.