by Rachel Ogbu

Improvised Explosive Devices and bomb-making materials were recovered from a shop at Anguwan Rogo, in Jos North Local Government of Plateau State.

On Monday Police forced their way into the shop after traders had complained that the occupant locked the shop after the expiry of his tenancy.

Other incriminating items found were cables, three bags of fertilisers, canisters of tear gas, a police life jacket, uniforms belonging to an Aid group, a drilling machine and remote control devices.

According to reports, a community leader, Yusuf Rabiu, confirmed the incident telling reporters how the shop owner complained about his tenant had declined to vacate the shop even after his rent was overdue.

The shop owner later called the police to take inventory of the shop, adding that it was in the process that the IEDs and materials were found.

“When we got the report, we alerted the police and the bomb disposal squad came and took them away,” he said.

The Punch reports:

This came as Aten people of Ganawuri in Riyom Local Government of the state dissociated themselves from the clash between Atakar and Fulani herdsmen, which claimed more than 30 lives.

A source in the police anti-bomb squad in the state told our correspondent that the IEDs were defused immediately.

Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Adigun Salawu, said investigations were ongoing into the incident were ongoing.

Meanwhile, Aten people, through the Chairman of Aten Development Association, Mr. Chom Bagu, on Tuesday in Jos, linked the fight between the Atakar and the Fulani in Ganawuri to an earlier attack on Atakar people in Fadan Atakar of Kaduna State.

He said the role of the Aten people was only mediatory since both the Atakar and Fulani in Ganawuri were tenants in the area.

Bagu also denied the report that Aten people assisted the Atakar in the fight against the Fulani.