The text message reads: “The bomb blast that happened at Abuja yesterday will explode in Government House Complex, Awka, in the next 60 hours from now if ANSU strike is not called off. Tell Pita Obi.”
Following the alarm, many have pointed fingers at the students who had planned a mourning protest on October 1, to press home their call on the Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, to settle with their teachers and get them back to the classrooms.
They also warned parents to keep their children indoors on the independence day in order not to have them harmed should police attack them during their first protest, but, however, shelved the protest following the appeal by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Mike Udah, for them to respect their fatherland and join in the independence celebration.
But speaking to Daily Sun, yesterday, the ANSU Student Union Government (SUG) President, Mr. Paul Okafor, said they were not in any way associated with the alleged text message or plot to bomb the state.
He said, “we are worried about the news going around the state that we students want to bomb the Government House and we want to categorically disassociate ourselves from any person or group of persons planning to bomb the state.
“We have no intention and have never intended to bomb Government House or cause any problem for the state, knowing full well that bombing or causing trouble cannot solve the problem we are already in as two wrongs cannot make a right.
“We students here are not militants. I have not even seen bomb before and have no need to see or do anything with it. All we have been doing is to talk to the government to see the need to quickly return us to school. The state belongs to all of us, so how can we destroy our future?”
Okafor said, “we do not in any way have anything to do with the text message sent to the CP over the bomb issue. We hereby call on security operatives in the state to use every machinery to fish out the perpetrators of this unholy act.”
Meanwhile, security has been beefed up in Awka, the state capital as bomb experts were seen everywhere especially at the Government House, where they search and screen people and vehicles coming into the government house.
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/oct/05/national-05-10-2010-003.htm
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