Police recover engine, chassis number of suicide bomber’s car

THE Police have recovered the engine and chassis number of the car suspected to have been used by a suicide bomber to detonate explosives at their Louis Edet House headquarters, Abuja last week.




The Commissioner of Police in charge of Police Forensic Laboratory in Lagos, Dr Vincent Okaa, submitted the details to the investigating team last Friday after analysing some of the data collected from the charred and shattered remains of the car believed to have been used for the explosion. The Boko Haram Islamic sect has claimed responsibility for the attack.

It was learnt that other items recovered from the scene of the explosion were still being analysed.
It was learnt that the car used by the suicide bomber was the eighth vehicle that came into the police headquarters after the Inspector-General’s convoy had passed - based on the analyses of the CCTV footage of the movement of the lone bomber.
There were, however, doubts over whether the bomber accidentally died in the blast or had the intention to commit suicide as now widely believed.
Sources said the bomber had all the time to escape after parking his car parallel to the Inspector-General Hafiz Ringim’s car, but for his interception by some officers in the police chief’s escort team who ordered him to remove his car.
The source said the bomber may have run out of time since the bomb may have been timed or he deliberately detonated it to prevent being discovered and arrested.
According to a source, the police have about 60 forensic experts, some of who are now working with the investigators.
Ringim is to meet with senior police officers in Abuja today. They are to fashion out ways of curbing the growing insecurity in the country.
A source said the meeting with Commissioners of Police, Assistant Inspectors-General of Police and Deputy Inspectors-General of Police is would review the operational modalities adopted so far with a view to tightening loose ends.

Force spokesman Olusola Amore, in a statement in Abuja, did not disclose the agenda for the meeting.

Olusola simply said: "The Inspector-General of Police’s monthly conference with Senior Police Officers from the rank of Commissioners of Police and above will come up on Tuesday 21st June at IGP’s Conference Hall."
It was also learnt that Ringim may comment on the blast and the measures being put in place to prevent another occurrence.




Ringim at the weekend ordered the release of all exhibit, and accident vehicles parked in police stations nationwide, following intelligence reports that they may be used by suspected members of the Boko Haram to plant bombs.

Source : The Nation Newspaper