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Police Parades 3 Suspects Over Rivers Church Explosion

The Rivers State Police Command has paraded three suspects for allegedly carrying out the recent attack on the Universal Christian Church in Diobu, owned by the father of Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike.

The church was attacked in the early hours of November the 29th.

Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mukan, said the suspects who admit complicity to the crime also confessed to being members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

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The suspects, Progress Onwudinjo (37) from Etche in Rivers State; Apuru Victor (23) and John Okorie (38) from Ebonyi and Abia states respectively also made confessional statements to pressmen on their involvement in the attack.

Mukan said the suspects will be charged to court to face the full wrath of the law while investigations are ongoing to bring their sponsors to book.

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