As part of plans to ensure a more safe and secured environment, the Niger State Police Command has destroyed Improvised Explosive Device (IEDs) and bombs recovered from different locations during multiple counter-insurgency operations with other security agencies between 2021 to 2023.
While giving the directives, the Commissioner of Police CP Shawulu Ebenezer Danmamman, said Four pipe-borne IEDs buried in the ground were recovered at Galadima-Kogo in Shiroro Local Government Area on 27th September, 2021.
He added that the explosives concealed in empty shells of suspected military missiles and 5kg cooking gas cylinder were recovered at Mutun-Daya, Shiroro LGA on February 2022.
Others, according to the Commissioner of Police include explosives concealed in a ten-litre jerricans, three pieces of suspected military hand grenades and a bow-shaped improvised material recovered at the Gbeganu area of Minna on 24th October, 2023.
In a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer SP Wasiu Abiodun, the CP said the destruction which took place on 22nd August, 2024 behind Zuma rock in Suleja LGA was led by the Officer in Charge of the EOD-CBRN (Explosive Ordinance Disposal – Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear) Unit of the Command, SP Mohammed Mamun.