The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero, has ordered the deployment of bomb detection experts in Bayelsa, Delta and Edo states.
The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of the zone, Mr. Gazali Lawal, said on Sunday that Ehindero also sent out a surveillance squad to fish out and apprehend politicians behind the recent spate of bomb explosions in the zone.
Lawal said the operatives would remain in the three states until the masterminds of the explosions were apprehended and their motives ascertained.
The deployment of the bomb experts followed the bomb explosions that rocked the three states in the past one week.
It started with an attack on the secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State followed by the explosion at the residence of a PDP aspirant in Benin, Edo State during which a guest was killed.
Also, bomb explosion rocked the campaign office of an aspirant into the House of Representatives on the banner of PDP in Delta State, Mr. Ndudi Elumelu.
However, Lawal, in a telephone interview with our correspondent, said Ehindero was worried by the explosions.
He said, �The IG has ordered men of bomb disposal unit of NPF to come down to zone and we have distributed them to the three states in the zone.
�The idea is that at a short notice they can move in and nip any unsavoury plan in the bud. We are on our guard and the IG has directed us to increase our surveillance and monitor the situation in the areas in order to prevent future occurrence.�
Lawal said men of the Criminal Intelligence Bureau from the Police Headquarters, Abuja, assumed duties in the three states on Friday, with a mandate from Ehindero to arrest the perpetrators and find out their motives.
�The people (men of CIB) will nose around in the zone between now and 2007 general election to check untoward developments.
�Definitely, the IG is worried because these ugly developments were not good for this country and he has devised means to ensure that bomb explosion become a thing of the past, not only in the zone, but the country as a whole,� he added.
Lawal warned politicians to obey the law, adding that the police would not brook any nonsense.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, Bayelsa State chapter, Mr. Ebikibina Miriki, has urged security agencies to be on the alert, to avoid bloodbath during the 2007 general election.
Miriki advised that policemen, State Security Service and other security agencies must be proactive in the discharging of their duties.
In an interview in Yenagoa on Sunday, Miriki said with political parties� primaries still going on and general election under way, extra measures must be put in place to ensure the security of lives and property.