Rivers govt declares arrest of suspect in Port Harcourt blast

The suspect who detonated an explosive device close to the state-owned Presidential Hotel during a pro-police demonstration in Port Harcourt on Tuesday has been located, according to the Rivers State Government. 

This occurred less than twenty-four hours after the state's health commissioner, doctor Adaeze Oreh, informed the administration of state-run and private medical facilities of the identification of the suspect, the signs of his injuries, and the necessity of detaining him should he be located. 

Panic ensued when a material thought to be dynamite exploded close to the Presidential Hotel on the Aba motorway.

Oreh, while speaking to newsmen on Tuesday evening said, “Now the Rivers State Ministry of Health is calling for an alert to all medical facilities in the state, both public and privately owned facilities to be vigilant and look out for an individual, a young man with a traumatically dismembered upper limb because this injury which was sustained will require medical attention.

“If such an individual and their accomplices are present in any of the facilities, immediately notify the Commissioner for Police, Rivers State and the Rivers State Ministry of Health.”

But later on Tuesday night, Oreh told reporters that his buddies, who are currently free, had taken the unidentified suspected bomber to the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital so he could receive medical attention. 

She clarified that the man's transporters had stated he had been in a car accident when he arrived at the hospital.

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