Three activists have
been arrested by the Akwa Ibom state polic.The suspects were carrying bombs
when they were detained, they was carrying high-power bombs capable of
destroying a whole building or pipelines at the time of arrest.
They were strutted at the state Police Headquarters, Ikot
Akpan-Abia, on Friday, August 19. The suspected militants are Nelson Seimiyefa, aged 34, from Bayelsa
state, Victor Emmanuel Williams, and
aged 34, from Etinan local government area of Akwa Ibom and Nseobong Dickson, aged 38, from Eket
local government area also of Akwa Ibom state. Murtala Mani, the state commissioner of police, commented on the
detention and characterizes the explosives as two high-power IED bombs and one
long single high-power propel launcher bomb. The suspects were arrested at
Moden City Hotel in Eket local government area of the state.The arrest comes
just as a one-week y ultimatum given by the Niger Delta militant group “Oyobio-Oyobio” to Mobil Producing
Nigeria Unlimited to relocate its headquarters to Akwa Ibom expired.
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