A joint team of riot policemen and other security agencies attached to the Lagos Business District (CBD) on Thursday, May 15, 2014 arrested a foreign national said to be a Sudanese for planting bombs to unleash terror in Lagos State bus terminal.
Three substances in black bags suspected to be bomb explosives were discovered in the heart of Lagos Island on Thursday morning by the Police.
The security operatives confiscated the suspicious bags and later revealed that the bombs found had been programmed to explode around 1 pm when passengers throng LAGBUS terminals to board buses to their respective destinations.
The three explosives were immediately taken away by the Police bomb squad from Ikeja Police command.
The grenades were planted in front of the Union Homes Company gate along Nnamdi Azikwe road, Tom Jones area, opposite Access Bank branch and LSDPC house.
It was discovered by a policeman attached to the homes, The policeman became suspicious of a man who earlier came in a Jeep and started distributing N1, 000 notes to beggars and later asked them to vacate the area before he drove off.
In the ensuing milieu, a foreigner suspected to be an indigene of Sudan earlier sited in the area was trying to escape and he was apprehended by an official of the CBD identified as Kareem Saidi.
(Photo Credit: Linda Ikeji Blog)
