Foreigners Behind Kaduna Bombings – Police

Leadership (Abuja)

Samuel Aruwan And Isaiah Benjamin,

18 April 2011

Kaduna — Kaduna State Police Command yesterday said that four nationals of Niger Republic had been linked to Saturday bomb blasts that rocked the state in two different locations, Happy Night Hotel, Kabala West and Magajin Gari Sharia Court.

Parading the suspected bombers in Kaduna, the state capital, the Commissioner of Police John Haruna, said that they allegedly brought the said improvised explosive device via nylon bags.

The suspects are Abubakar Abdulazeez, Ja’afaru Abu, Alhaji Sumaila Alhassan and Abdullahi Sulaiman. Their Nigerian accomplice is Muhammad Hari, a senior secondary school student of Kufena Science School,Kufena, Kaduna State.

According to the police chief, the Kabala West explosion at the Happy Night Hotel said wounded eight persons.

He noted that three of the victims had left the scene to seek treatment before the arrival of the police while five of the victims were responding to treatment at various hospitals.

he said, and efforts are being made to locate the other victims who left before our arrival, he added.

“One Abubakar Abdullazeez a Nigeren, a principal suspect was promptly arrested at the scene.A suspect, Shaibu Abdullahi of Igabi Local Government Area was seriously injured by the explosion, suspected to be an improvised explosive device and is being treated in a hospital somewhere.Investigation so far has led to the arrest of one Mallam Samaila Alhassan believed to have sponsored the dastardly act; he has made useful statements which have provided significant leads in the investigation.”

Haruna also disclosed that investigation is ongoing to determine whether the two explosions were by separate person(s) or syndicated action, saying that officers of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), the Bomb Disposal Squad and the Kabala West Division are on top of the investigation.

He however dispel earlier rumours that lives were lost in the incidents and reassure the general public of the security of life and property in the state assuring that the police will leave no stone unturned in fishing out mischief makers.

Explaining the ferocity of the bombs used by the suspects, Assistant Commissioner of Police in-charge of bomb, Patrick David Effiong, said, “Considering the magnitude of the destruction, they are similar and of high magnitude and velocities of 25 and 26.The perpetrators carried out the act and we are lucky in the sense that it was not in market square, school where children are gathered or Church and Mosque as well. Judging the components they used it will be shattering .Military devices are company made devices but these ones are base on plan and available materials. They are hazards because their velocity goes with frequencies of between 25 and 26.When it occurs it crack buildings and uproot of trees like we see in these two cases”.

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