Metro Boko Haram: Why Suicide Bombers Attacked Abuja - Security Official

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Nigeria - The Kuje and Nyanya suburbs of Nigeria's capital city, Abuja, were yesterday night rocked by a series of bomb blasts, a year after they'd had relative peace from bomb explosions.

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There was a bomb explosion at the Kuje police station and a second blast in front of the Kuje market, which reportedly killed a handful of night traders.

There are reports of a third blast Jukwoyi Bus Station after the Nyanya Bridge, another suburb in the city.

A security official according to Leadership said the target of the bombing was the freeing of some Boko Haram prisoners that were incarcerated at the Kuje prisons, alluding to the fact that the Nyanya bombing which occurred was meant to be a decoy.

The official also revealed that the agency had earlier arrested two suspects in Lagos and one in Kaduna following intense trailing and tracking of the suspects.

“We had arrested suspects who had confessed to this plots and more but the date and timing for this act was not precise even as we kept intercepting their phone calls made within themselves. They were missed by just 35 minutes. Their target was to blow up Kuje Prison and set free their members there but of course it was not to be and hence the resort to bombings. Nyanya was just a decoy, the real target was the Kuje prison,” the official stated.


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