Madala bombing: SSS brings more witnesses against Kabiru Sokoto

The trial of terrorism suspect, Kabiru Sokoto, continued on Monday before Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja, with more witnesses giving evidence.

The accused, who is originally called Kabiru Umar, is standing trial for his alleged role in the Christmas day bombing of St. Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger, in 2011.


Giving evidence, a blind-fold police officer, referred to as “ABC’’ for security reason, said the Madalla attack was not a suicide attack but a coordinated attack.
He explained that the accused was privy to the arrangement that led to the bombing of the Church on Christmas day.

“ABC’’ said the accused, with seven other alleged Boko Haram members, took steps at various intervals to plant explosives in the vehicle near the Church.
The prosecution witness further testified that the explosives caused the death of many people and injured many others.

Reacting to questions challenging the authenticity of the accused person’s confessional statement during cross examination, the witness said the accused voluntarily gave his statement.

“ABC’’ said it was not true that the statement was a figment of his imagination.
“My Lord, my evidence before the court is the whole truth and nothing but the truth.’’

In his evidence, another prosecution witness, an operative of the State Security Service (SSS), said he led a team of other SSS operatives to Sabongida in Taraba in an attempt to re-arrest the accused.

He explained that on Feb. 10, 2012 at about 4.30 a.m. the team stormed the residence where the accused took refuge after escaping from police custody.
“We arrested the accused from one of the rooms in the uncompleted building where another suspected Boko Haram Commander, Suleiman Habib, was residing.

“On sighting him from behind, we quickly recognised him as Kabiru Umar, a.k.a Kabiru Sokoto and we immediately arrested him and brought him to Abuja.
“At the point of arrest, he was with a Nokia cell phone with six sim cards of various network providers.’’

According to the witness, the accused told him during preliminary interrogation that the N40 million sent to Boko Haram from a sister organisation in Algeria remotely caused the sect to split.

“My lord, the accused told me at that point that he had N500,000 as his share from the bounty,’’ he added.

However, the accused had on May 11, objected to the document admitted by the court as his confessional statement.

He said neither the police nor the SSS asked him to write any statement.
Meanwhile, Justice Ademola held that the admissibility of the document was based on its relevance to the case.

He, therefore, adjourned the trial to May 16 and May 17, while May 20 was fixed for the accused to open his defence.

Posted: at 13-05-2013 06:00 PM (11 years ago) | Hero

9ja show justice in ur laws for once if there is law that permit the government to kill they should kill him

Posted: at 13-05-2013 07:33 PM (11 years ago) | Hero

The time is geting late pls make it fast weast this ldiot

Posted: at 13-05-2013 08:17 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming

indeed

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Posted: at 13-05-2013 08:27 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

     

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Posted: at 13-05-2013 09:01 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

The judiciary should pass an immediate judgement to this scumbag.

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Posted: at 13-05-2013 09:20 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

SEE MUMU DSS POLICEMAN,,,,,,SHOOT AM IT U GO SHOOT,,,,WHICH ONE B ALL DIS DEMO???
SEE TERRORIST DEY LOOK FRESH,,,DEY WEAR PUMA,,,,WEY DEM FOR DON WASTE AM SINCE,,,
I WORRY FOR 9JA MEEEEEEEHN!!!

Posted: at 13-05-2013 10:44 PM (11 years ago) | Hero

Kill dis man nd 4get about dis case

Posted: at 14-05-2013 01:01 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Qur'an (4:89) They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah . But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.For those who prefer not to view this video, a summary follows:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Tqp_s_pbM" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Tqp_s_pbM</a>

A young man appears held down by masked men. His head is pulled back, with a knife to his throat. He does not struggle and appears resigned to his fate. Speaking in Arabic, the background speaker, or "narrator," chants a number of Muslim prayers and supplications, mostly condemning Christianity, which, because of the Trinity, is referred to as a polytheistic faith: "Let Allah be avenged on the polytheist apostate"; "Allah empower your religion, make it victorious against the polytheists"; "Allah, defeat the infidels at the hands of the Muslims," and "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger."

Then, to cries of "Allahu Akbar!"— Allah is greater!"—the masked man holding the knife to the apostate's throat begins to slice away, severing the head completely after approximately one minute of graphic knife-carving, as the victim drowns in blood. Finally, the severed head is held aloft to more Islamic slogans of victory.

Visibly distraught, Tawfiq Okasha, the host, asks: "Is this Islam? Does Islam call for this? How is Islam related to this matter?...These are the images that are disseminated throughout the electronic media in Europe and America.... Can you imagine?" Then, in reference to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis, whose political influence has grown tremendously, he asks, "How are such people supposed to govern?"

Only the other day, a prominent Egyptian Salafi leader -- referring to the canonical hadiths, including Muhammad's command, "Whoever leaves his religion, kill him" -- openly stated that no Muslim has the right to apostatize, or leave Islam.

Any number of Islamic legal manuals make explicitly clear that apostasy is a capital crime, punishable by death. The first "righteous caliph," a model of Muslim piety, had tens of thousands of former Muslims slaughtered—including by burning, beheading, and crucifixion—simply because they tried to break away from Islam. According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, the most authoritative reference work on Islam in the English language, "there is unanimity that the male apostate must be put to death."

Finally, a word on the "prayers" or supplications to Allah made by the Muslim executioners in the video: these are standard and formulaic. In other words, these are not just masked, anonymous butchers who pray to Allah as they engage in acts of cutting throats and holding up heads, these are top-ranking Muslim leaders, who appear regularly on TV, who invoke such hate-filled prayers. See here for examples of Muslims supplicating Allah to strike infidels with cancer and disease "till they pray for death and do not receive it;" there are even formalized prayers in Mecca, blasted on megaphones as Muslims honor their obligation to go on a pilgrimage at least once in their lives, supplicating Allah to make the lives of Christians and Jews "hostage to misery; drape them with endless despair, unrelenting pain and unremitting ailment; fill their lives with sorrow and pain and end their lives in humiliation and oppression."

Posted: at 14-05-2013 05:01 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Kk!

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Posted: at 14-05-2013 06:47 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac