Taraba State Governor Danbaba Suntai has arrested some motorcyclists in Jalingo, the state capital.
Police spokesman IbiangMbasike made this known at the weekend.
The governor was also said to have ordered the arrest of commercial motorcyclists and private owners of motorcycles in Jalingo.
A source in the Government House said the governor took the action because he believed commercial motorcyclists known in local parlance as achaba (okada riders) were responsible for the insecurity in the state.
The development followed the two bomb blasts that occurred in the state capital recently.
The first explosion occurred on April 30 when a suicide bomber rode on a motorcycle and forced his way into the convoy of the Commissioner of Police Mamman Sule. No fewer than 11 persons were killed in the early morning suicide bombing, which appeared to be targeted at the newly redeployed police chief. Twenty people were seriously injured, including Police Corporal Usman Suleiman who was the outrider in the commissioner’s convoy.
Another bomb blast occurred on May 11. Although, there were no casualties, the panic it created paralysed the social life of the once peaceful city.
In the second bomb blast, two suspected bombers reportedly drove on a motorcycle, passed a police van before dropping an explosive, which was carefully packaged in what looked like a fertiliser bag. It was gathered that the timing was miscalculated. So, the bomb exploded a few seconds after the police van had passed the scene of the detonation.
Thus, the police, acting on the prompting of the governor, have arrested many motorcyclists, and have vowed to arrest any motorcyclist found on the road in Jalingo.
“We have arrested quite a reasonable number of motorcyclists. We can’t say exactly how many motorcyclists have been arrested,” the police spokesman Mbasike told The Nation.
via The Nation: http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/47265-suicide-bombing-fallout-suntai-arrests-motorcyclists-in-jalingo.html
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