He was arrested in Jos on Wednesday.
Coincidentally, Wednesday, September 7, 2011, marked the tenth year anniversary of the commencement of hostilities in Jos, a development that has become the negative hallmark of the once peaceful town.
The hostilities have claimed hundreds of lives, the latest being the two attacks allegedly carried out by Fulani herdsmen on two Christian communities in the state last Sunday and Thursday respectively which left more than 20 dead.
The suspected bomber’s arrest, it was learnt, came following what competent security sources in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, and Jos, described as “some very useful information”.
According to the security sources, “whereas the intelligence community had been getting signals about the whereabouts of the mastermind of the Christmas Eve bombings in Jos, he kept eluding the operatives.
“Fortunately, a big break came last Tuesday after the arrest of some Boko Haram suspects in Suleija. The arrested suspects provided useful information which led to the arrest of the alleged mastermind of the Christmas Eve bombings in Jos”.
Attempts to get the name of the suspect proved abortive as the sources maintained that investigations were still on-going.
The arrested suspect.
Sunday Vanguard was nonetheless told that “the suspect is already providing useful information that would assist in the investigations of some other dastardly acts”.
Once the investigations are completed, the security sources stated, “the bombing mastermind would be arraigned along with his collaborators in the aw court”.
Seven explosives
32 people were confirmed dead and 74 hospitalized in the blasts which rocked two parts of Jos, last Christmas Eve.
Giving details of the bombings, Plateau State commissioner of police, Mr. Abdulrahman Akano, said a total of seven explosives were planted in the two parts of the state capital.
According to him, five of the explosives went off at the Kabong area while two were detonated at the Angwan Rukuba area. One of the bombs was planted in a busy market at Kabong where people were making last-minute purchases for Christmas while another was planted at a relaxation spot in Angwan Rukuba.
He said dynamites and about 100 match boxes were recovered from one of the places combed by men of the bomb unit of the police and were being analyzed.
Akano described the incident as more political than religious or ethnic, saying, “Honestly, my own estimation of this is that it is political. Explosives have been introduced for the first time. When you understand that the problem on the Plateau is more political than religious, when the dust settles, people will know that this is not religious.”
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