THE Lagos State Police Command has announced that it successfully detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) around the Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos, hours before the End Bad Governance in Nigeria protest.
According to media reports, the Spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said that at around 4 p.m., a police officer reported at the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) base at Ikeja that while he was on his way along Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, he sighted an unregistered white Corolla car parked on the main road close to the gate of Police Mobile Force (PMF) 23 Barracks, Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos.
Hundeyin said that the officer told the Command that a young man alighted from the car and carefully dropped a bag by the side of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operations Unit fence, returned to the vehicle, and zoomed off.
He said that based on the report, a team of EOD-CBRN from the base was quickly mobilised to the scene to identify the object and render it safe, adding that the team confirmed that the substance was an IED and subsequently, the area was cordoned off and the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) was adopted.
He added that the team took the IED to a safe distance for detonation accordingly. Meanwhile, the residue of the IED has been collected for further analysis and investigation.
