by Chinwe Okafor
A bomb blast was reported to have gone off during an accreditation exercise at one of Enugu’s polling unit on Saturday.
According to the police:
“The Enugu state command of the Nigeria Police Force through its operatives working in partnership with other sister security agencies in the state on 28/03/13 averted what would have caused a serious damage and loss of live at a polling station identified as WTC polling station having three polling unit located in Ogui in Enugu state. It was gathered that due to the heavy presence of security operatives at the venue that the vehicle and a baby boy car black in colour with registration number KUJ 971 LB driven by yet to be identified persons and allegedly with some suspected improvise explosive device IED, exploded shattering the said vehicle on the road behind the polling station. It was further gathered that men of the anti bomb squad of the Enugu state police command had promptly intervened detonating remainders and also making the entire location safe.
Meanwhile, the polling station near the scene is experiencing heavy turn out out of voters who want to elect their leaders and there is also heavy presence of security men as the commissioner of police Cp Dan Bature and and other heads of sister security agencies were also at the scene to assure voters and members of the public about the readiness of the security agencies.
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