Bachelorette at 10-02-2012 01:44 PM (12 years ago)
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Nigerian police arrested an escaped convict suspected of masterminding a Christmas Day church bombing that killed at least 44 people in an attack claimed by a radical Islamist sect, an official said Friday.
Kabiru Sokoto's escape just a day after his arrest led to national embarrassment and to the firing of the country's top police official.
Presidential spokesman Reuben Abati told The Associated Press on Friday that members of the nation's secret police arrested Sokoto in Taraba state, which borders Cameroon. Abati said he had no other details about the arrest, and referred questions to the State Security Service.
A spokeswoman for the secret police agency declined to immediately comment. However, another security official who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to journalists, said officers arrested Sokoto as he hid behind a clothesline at a home in the state.
Sokoto will be flown back to Abuja, Nigeria's capital, on an air force flight, the official said.
Police named Sokoto, an alleged member of the radical sect known as Boko Haram, as the prime suspect for the Dec. 25 bombing of St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, a city just outside of Abuja.
However, Sokoto escaped from police custody a day after his arrest, an embarrassment for Nigeria's ill-equipped federal police. President Goodluck Jonathan later fired the nation's top police official a few months before his mandated retirement.
The bombing struck just after 8 a.m. as worshippers began to leave the sanctuary after a morning service. A car bomb detonated near the church's front steps, cutting down those leaving.
Again? How many times be dat. Na wetin comot person for work be dat ooo. Make una no deceive us again ooo. By the way, after the arrest wat next, so many arrest but no action taken, so of what use? Abeg i dey pass
Posted: at 10-02-2012 01:55 PM (12 years ago) | Hero
otagermo at 10-02-2012 02:12 PM (12 years ago) (m)
naija too dey forget this name...quick service.......dem for give that dead bodi like 74 bullet......then....make we read am for newspaper sey.......he was shot while trying to escape...........then his own headech will be over............with this boko idiots issue....... quick service is the key..........
Posted: at 10-02-2012 02:12 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
daddison at 10-02-2012 02:22 PM (12 years ago) (m)
Tks SSS for a good job. This idiot must not be allowed to escape again before proper drilling to reveal his sponsors. He can then be handed over to the Police
Posted: at 10-02-2012 02:22 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming
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