Report emanating from the University of Uyo has it
that Operatives of Peace on Campus Initiative (PCI), on Monday; uncovered two
improvised explosive devices in male hostel of the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom
State.
The operatives also arrested a diploma student of
the institution, Mr Kufre Anwana, following the discovery.
Our correspondent gathered that two improvised
explosive devices, widely speculated as hand grenades, were found in a bag
belonging to the suspect by some students, who alerted the operatives of the
PCI.
National Coordinator, PCI, Mr Oliver Cromwell,
told newsmen that his men in the UNIUYO chapter got information that the
suspect was keeping explosive devices in his bag, while they trail him to his
room in the hostel.
According to Cromwell, on discovering the devices,
which was well packaged in a bag, the operatives apprehended the suspect and
invited anti-bomb squad formation of the Akwa Ibom State police command, Ikot
Akpan Abia, to the scene for verification and possible diffusion.
He stated that the squad detonated the two
improved explosive devices, while it also conducted a search round the other
hostel rooms.
“Anti-Bomb Squad was invited to come and ascertain
if the explosives were real. When they came, they confirmed that those things
were hand grenades and were locally made,” an eyewitness and student of the
institution, who gave his name as Inyang, told the liveschoolnews.com.ng
grapevine.
Inyang stated that Anwana was not in the hostel at
the time the explosives were uncovered, but was apprehended and interrogated
when he returned.
It was, however, gathered that during
interrogation, the suspect confessed to keeping the explosives, but dismissed
that he actually bought or made them with intent to disrupting academic
activities.
According to him, he stumbled on the explosive
devices on the school premises, saying he was planning to hand them over to the
security.
“It all started on Friday when I was coming back
from the church. Just close to where the construction is going on, I saw two
white things on the ground. When I picked them, I saw the inscription ‘hand
grenade’,” he said.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Etim
Dickson, confirmed the incident, saying that the explosives were homemade
devices, which could have been invented by any of the science students in the
university.
He added that the police would get to the root of
the matter.
The police spokesman urged students and parents
not to entertain any fear about possible breakdown of law and order in the
university community.
“The incident had been properly taken care of. We
are on top of the situation. We shall get to the root of the mater,” Dickson,
speaking with our correspondent in a telephone conversation, maintained.
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