Operatives of the Peace on Campus Initiatives (PCI), University of Uyo chapter yesterday arrested an undergraduate of the school with two hand grenades.
PCI , an anti-cultism NGO operating on campuses of higher institutions arrested the part one student (names withheld) after a tip off by fellow students.
National Coordinator of PCI, Mr. Oliver Cromwell, said yesterday that his men in the UNIUYO chapter got information about the suspect keeping the IEDs, and trailed him to his males’ hostel.
Cromwell said his men on discovering the bombs that were well-packaged in a bag in the hostel’s room, apprehended the suspect and invited the anti-bomb squad of the state police command, Ikot Akpan Abia, Uyo, to the scene for verification. The squad detonated the two devices and searched the hostel rooms for more.
The suspect who was said to have confessed during interrogation, to keeping the explosives, dismissed that he bought or made them with intent to wreaking havoc on campus. According to him, he found the devices within the school premises, saying he was trying to hand them over to the university’s security.
“It all started on Friday when I was coming back from church. Just close to where the construction was going on, I saw two white things on the ground. When I picked them, I saw the instruction ‘hand grenade.”
He however, did not explain why he did not alert the school security.