Attempt to blow up third mainland Bridge foiled by police

- Nigerian police have foiled an attempt to blow up the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos by notorious Niger Delta militant group operating in with the creeks of Arepo and Ikorodu

- The militant group have been responsible for bank robberies and high profile kidnappings around Lagos and Ogun state recently.
Police foils plan to bomb Theird Mainland Bridge Men of the Nigerian police have foiled an
attempt to blow up the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos by notorious Niger Delta militant group operating in with the creeks of Arepo and Ikorodu area of Ogun state and Lagos.
According to reports by The Nation, Abiodun Amos a top commander of the group also
known as Senti, an Ijaw from Arogbo, Ese-Odo Local Government of Ondo State, who is also said to be the group’s explosive expert, was arrested by operatives of the Inspector General
of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT), who trailed him to a river bank at
Majidun, Ikorodu, Lagos. Recovered from him were Two AK47 rifles hidden in a “Ghana-Must-Go” bag. He led the IRT operatives to a vehicle parked discreetly within Ikorodu, where a large catches of dynamite and detonators was recovered.

The report said the arrest of the militant followed intelligence generated by the office of
the National Security Adviser (NSA), which was passed on to the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, indicating that the group was at its final stage of carrying out an attack on the Third Mainland Bridge—Africa’s longest at 13 kilometres.
The 43-year-old suspect confessed that his group was formerly into pipeline vandalism but they resorted to kidnapping when it became difficult for them to vandalise and sell their
stolen petroleum products.

“We went into bank robberies and kidnapping because we wanted to get to attention and all we wanted was for them to grant us amnesty and also offer us pipeline protection contract. We have made several appeals and the government is not listening to us. “General” Ossy said ‘if we don’t blow up the Third Mainland Bridge government’ they would not listen to
us. We had concluded plans and we decided to carry out the attack by November ending. I am the groups explosive expert and before I was arrested we were going into the creek to conclude plans on how to carry out the attack.”
The militant group have been responsible for bank robberies and high profile kidnappings,
including that of three schoolgirls at Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School in Ikorodu, four landlords at Isheri North, Oniba of Ibaland, Oba Goriola Oseni and many others within Lagos and Ogun states, boasted in an interview that his group had over 21 “generals”
commanding 7,800 battle-ready boys.