The attempted bomb attack programmed to inflict maximum damage happened shortly before the commencement of the screening of cadet Police officers at the same venue scheduled for yesterday. The Boko Haram sect it was learnt had sent out threat SMS to the Police command that it was going to frustrate yesterday’s screening exercise.
Among the instruments of death recovered from the car were 6 Gas cylinders of 13.6KG weight with its wirings, 1 Air Conditioner Gas Cylinder and two 25 litre Jerry-Cans of fuel. Other items were 1 tin of ABRO Can of 5 B litre Volume of chemicals and 1 Acid Orange Drum of 28KG weight.
The Commissioner of Police in Borno State, Mr. Simeon Midenda relieved that the incident provoked no loss of life on the part of the Police nevertheless traced the Police interception of the bomber to prior intelligence on an expected attack.
However, eleven persons were reported dead yesterday after marauders dressed in army uniform attacked a village in Heipang few kilometers south of Jos. Among those killed in the attack was a man with seven members of his family.
Meanwhile also yesterday the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Onyeabor Ihejirika has defended the military’s use of force in tackling domestic insurgency to the sophistication of the arms wielded by perpetrators of domestic violence.
Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State on his part yesterday said that responsibility for solving domestic violence such as that instigated by the Boko Haram sect laid on the present generation of Nigerians.
BASTARD!!!
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