The police have arrested five suspects suspected to have been involved in the June 5,2022, attack in St. Francis Catholic church. Owo, Ondo state, that killed 40 people in early June, Chief of Defence Staff General Leo Irabor said on Tuesday.
Among those arrested was the person who housed the terrorists on the day of the attack.
Although the identities of those arrested and the full details of where and how they were arrested are yet to be made known to the public until full investigations have been carried out, the authorities have said they suspect insurgent group Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) carried out the massacre of members of a congregation inside the St Francis Catholic Church in Ondo state.
ISWAP is waging an insurgency in the northeast but claims that it carried out the attack far away from its enclave have raised concern that the group is expanding its footprint in Nigeria.
Irabor said in a statement in Abuja that the attackers were arrested during joint operations involving the armed forces, the Department of Security Services and police. He did not say where and when the arrests were made.
He said he could not parade the suspects due to ongoing investigations.
“I will like to say that in due course, the world will see them and others who are behind other daring attacks in the country,” Irabor said.