The Adamawa State Commissioner of Police, Gabriel Adaji, on Friday said the command has discovered 19 high calibre bombs with which the Boko Haram insurgents were planning to launch attacks on the troubled Northeastern state.
Adaji told journalists during a news briefing that the bombs were discovered in Hong Local Government Area of the state.
He noted that the bombs were ready to be used when they were detected, stressing that they were at 90 per cent completion and only needed to be connected to batteries to detonate.
The commissioner who suspected that the terror group wanted to use the bombs to disrupt the forthcoming elections, revealed that the police in the state worked on a hint in the media last week that some suspected suicide bombers were apprehended by soldiers in Yola, and that some of the insurgents were still at large within the town.
“This made us to beam our searchlight on some of the spots,” he said.
“Something that would have caused a sorrow to the state was averted. One of the bombs is capable of bringing down a 10-storey building.”
Adaji said many people would have been killed and several properties destroyed had the terrorists succeeded in their attempt.
He said the insurgents wanted to blow up strategic structures including the over one kilometre River Benue Bridge linking the state capital with Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola and Mubi area.
“The bombs have been detonated by the anti-bomb squad of the state police command, the feat has averted a major calamity because some of the bombs were capable of destroying a ten-storey building” he said
He noted that the bombs were on the verge of being transported to various parts of Yola before they were discovered, adding that the smallest among them can completely destroy structures within 200 metre radius.
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