POLICE NAB ABUJA BOMB BLASTS MASTERMINDS

POLICE NAB ABUJA BOMB BLASTS MASTERMINDS

Two of the associated geniuses with the October 2, 2015, Boko Haram bombings in Nyanya and Kuje, two satellite towns in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) that murdered more than 20 individuals and harmed many others, are as of now in police net.

Investigator General of Police Solomon Arase made this known yesterday amid his month to month vital police meeting with senior cops from the rank of magistrates of police where he uncovered that the Force had additionally thwarted another plot by a few suspects, Abdulazeez Muhazab, 27, and Isiaka Salihu, 25, to do another bomb assault in the FCT.

Arase uncovered that the police recuperated 12 prepared home-made explosives covered in soda pop jars, 28 bits of electric detonators and gigantic amounts of hazardous materials.

The police supervisor clarified that the suspects, who hail from Okene, Kogi State, were helping the police in their examinations concerning their wide dread system, asserting that they would be arraigned after examination.

Arase, who handled inquiries from writers, additionally said the police had caught five of the eight-man group that took an interest in the snatching of senior statesman, Chief Olu Falae.

As indicated by the IGP, the suspects, Abubakar Auta, Idris Lawan, Umar Ibrahim, Masahudu Mohammed and Bello Tanu, worked an extensive abduct ring and were captured at their alcoves in Niger, Ekiti and Ondo states.

He recorded things recouped from the suspects to incorporate a Bajaj cruiser used to transport their casualty and N823, 990 money which was a piece of the N5 million payment paid to them.

"All the captured suspects have put forth confession booth expressions highlighting subtle elements of the operations and their individual parts, as I address you now, the suspects are being charged to court in Akure, Ondo State," Arase said. 

The Department of State Services (DSS) had on Monday paraded two suspects, Babawuro Kato and Abdullahi Usman, regarding Falae's snatching. The suspects had asserted that the snatching was completed by a three-man group and that the brains, one Dantito, stole away with the N5m pay-off.

Whenever inquired as to whether the suspects paraded by the DSS were a piece of the abduct posse captured by the police, Arase said that he had asked for the two's exchange suspects from the DSS executive general, Lawal Daura.

"I said it was an eight-man posse, and from the examinations we have completed as such, those two that were paraded yesterday (Monday) by the State Security Service are a piece of that eight-man group. I have composed a letter to the DG, SSS, that we are summoning the suspects and once they bring the two suspects, we can correct the charge," Arase said. 

The IGP expressed that the gathering with senior cops would audit police arrangements for the governorship races booked for November 21 in Kogi State and December 5, 2015 in Bayelsa State.