The first alleged move by the dreaded Boko Haram sect to
penetrate Southern part of Nigeria was frustrated on Sunday as soldiers from
the Asa Military Base of 14 Brigade, Ohafia Barracks, Abia State, arrested 486
suspected insurgents including eight girls.
The arrest was made same day bombs were uncovered and
defused in a Winners Chapel church in Imo State. But the suspects claimed they
were going to Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital in search of work.
They were arrested at about 2 am when their vehicles were
intercepted by soldiers between Arungwa Junction on the Enugu-Port Harcourt
Expressway and Imo Gate, the Abia State and Rivers State boundary.
They were said to be moving in a convoy of 35 Hummer buses
when they were intercepted. However, two of the buses were said to have escaped
arrest...
It seems these people may not even be connected in any way
with the wicked Boko Haram sect.
Meanwhile, the Imo State Government has announced far
reaching security measures, following the botched bomb attack targeted at the
Living Faith Church, Winners Chapel, Owerri.
Announcing the eight-point measures in Owerri, after several
hours of special security meeting with security chiefs and a cross section of
Imo people, Governor Rochas Okorocha, said the government would summarily take
over uncompleted buildings found to be hideouts for criminals.
“Uncompleted buildings in the cities in the state and
environs without security guards, will be taken over by the government because
criminals use them as hideouts”, Okorocha said.
The governor, who branded the security measure as “operation
know your neighbour”, also ordered hotels in the state, to install security
cameras and should on a daily basis, forward a list of all their guests to the
Director of State Security Service.
“Trailers bringing food items from the North would no longer
be allowed to come into the state at night but only during the day and the food
items would be off-loaded at a designated place, off the state capital,” he
said.
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