Police uncover bombs in Jos community

Police in Jos on Easter Monday averted a tragedy when they uncovered some Improvised Explosive Devices and bomb-making materials in a shop at Anguwan Rogo, a Hausa dominated suburb in Jos North Local Government of Plateau State.

This came as Aten people of Ganawuri in Riyom Local Government of the state dissociated themselves from the clash between Atakar and Fulani herdsmen, which claimed more than 30 lives.

The unearthing of the bomb followed a complaint to the police by the traders after the occupant locked the shop after the expiry of his tenancy.

Among the items uncovered by the police were an some IEDs, cables, three bags of fertilisers, canisters of tear gas, a police life jacket, uniforms belonging to an Aid group, a drilling machine and remote control devices.

A community leader, Alhaji Yusuf Rabiu, who confirmed the development to our correspondent on Tuesday, said the shop owner had reported that his tenant had refused to vacate the shop even after his tenancy had expired.

He said when the tenant was not forthcoming, the shop owner invited the police to take inventory of the shop, adding that it was in the process that the IEDs and materials were found.

Rabiu added, “When we got the report, we alerted the police and the bomb disposal squad came and took them away.”

A source in the police anti-bomb squad in the state told our correspondent that the IEDs were defused immediately.

Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Adigun Salawu, said investigations were ongoing into the incident were ongoing.

Meanwhile, Aten people, through the Chairman of Aten Development Association, Mr. Chom Bagu, on Tuesday in Jos, linked the fight between the Atakar and the Fulani in Ganawuri to an earlier attack on Atakar people in Fadan Atakar of Kaduna State.

He said the role of the Aten people was only mediatory since both the Atakar and Fulani in Ganawuri were tenants in the area.

Bagu also denied the report that Aten people assisted the Atakar in the fight against the Fulani.