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Yesterday the Department of State Security, DSS, paraded five Nyanya suspects in Abuja over their alleged roles in the bombing of the Nyanya bus park on the 14th of April 201 which resulted in over 70 dead.
The five suspects are listed thus, according to the Tribune newspaper: “Ahmad Rufai Abubakar (aka Abu Ibrahim/Mai Turare), Muhammadu Sani Ishaq, Adamu Yusuf, Yau Saidu (kotar Rama) and Anas Isah, who all confessed to taking part one way or the other during the planning process of the bomb attacks at Nyanya last month.”
Deputy Director of Public Relations for the DSS, Marilyn Ogar, stated that an Army Deserter, Sadiq Ogwuche with service number SVC 95/104, who was also the son of a retired colonel and patent medicine seller Rufai Abubakar Tsiga (aka Dr. Tsiga) were declared wanted on Monday for their roles in the incident.
Responding to questions from newsmen, Adamu Yusuf confessed openly to being a member of the Boko Haram sect but Sani Ishaq denied being a member of the sect, only admitting to assisting his boss, Tsiga, in driving the bomb-laden vehicle to the Nyanya motor park a night before the blast, where it was discreetly placed for the explosion.
He stated that his boss (Tsiga) told him the bomb explosion was revenge for the alleged killing of a member of the terrorist sect a week before the blast by a mob when they found him with ammunition.
Explaining Tsiga’s and Ogwuche’s roles in the blast, Marilyn Ogar said, “Tsiga is the cell leader who planned the attacked and cajoled other members into taking part in the act by lying to them that one of their members was killed at the park by a mob.”
Tsiga had gone back to the park on the morning of the blast to activate the bomb.
Ogwuche, declared Ogar, “is a criminal who was earlier arrested in 2011 but was released on bail following pressures from human right activists who consistently accused the service of violating Ogwuche’s rights by his being locked up while under investigations”.
The SSS also revealed that Ogwuche was a son of a retired Army colonel. ”It is noteworthy that UK born Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche with Service number SVC95/104 deserted the Nigerian Army in 2006. He served in the Intelligence Unit of Nigerian Army at the Child Avenue, Arakan Barracks, Lagos between 2001 and 2006 and was posted to the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in 2006,” said Ogar.
The Nigerian Police has said Tsiga was actively supported by his co-mastermind, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, who is also at large, studying Arabic Language a the International University of Africa, Sudan.
“In the night of 13th April 2014 Rufai Abubakar Tsiga and moved the explosives laden vehicle to the position from where he detonated the explosives,” said the police.
No one is sure why the police decide on a public parade instead of a courtroom to prosecute the suspects.
Below is the SSS report signed by Marilyn Ogar:
RUFAI ABUBAKA: He was arrested on 22ndApril 2014 at Gwantu Sanga LGA of Kaduna State by a Joint Security team. He is a forty-three (43) year old indigene of Yarimawa , Kazaure LGA Jigawa State.
He has admitted that shortly after the bomb blast of April 14, 2014 one Rufai Abubakar Tsiga now at large confirmed to him that he (Tsiga) and other members of the Boko Haram sect carried the attack at Nyanya Motor park to retaliate the killing of a sect member at the same Park eight (8) days earlier.
According to Ahmad Rufai ABUBAKAR, (A.K.A Maiturare ) , Rufai Abubakar TSIGA also told him that Boko Haram National Leader had directed that all members of the sect should relocate with their families to “Gaaba” (Boko Haram forest camp)in preparation for mass attacks against the Nigerian state.
MUHAMMADU SANI ISHAQ: Sani was arrested on 24th April 2014 at Utako village behind Julius Berger Yard Utako following the disclosure made by Ahmad Rufai ABUBAKAR(A.K.A Maiturare). He is a thirty (30) year old indigene of Balari village Ajingi LGA of Kano State.
Sani was a sales boy in Rufai Abubakar TSIGA’s patent medicine store at Utako called “Kishi Clinic “ a structure which also served as a base for Boko Haram’s convert activities in the FCT. He revealed that two days before the Nyanya blasts, Rufai Abubakar TSIGA his boss , informed him around 4.00pm after prayer that there was a plan to bomb a facility in Abuja but stated that he was never informed of the exact location.
He further revealed that Rufai TSIGA later informed him that the bomb to be used for the blasts were being coupled at the residence of one Adamu YUSUF.
According to SANI , a day before the Nyanya bombing precisely 13th April 2014 he and TSIGA drove the car laden with explosives and parked it behind four (4) buses inside the Nyanya motor Park overnight after which they left the area.
He revealed that before 7.00am the following morning Rufai TSIGA went and detonated the explosives.
According to him, two (2) cars were wired for attack. He claimed one was used for the April 14th 2014 incident which was a retaliatory attack on the motor park by the Boko Haram sect whose member was mobbed and killed a week before the bombing incident
When he was intercepted with firearms at the Nyanya Motor Park, (However, this story of killing of a Boko Haram member at the Nyanya Motor Park a week earlier would appear untrue but was fabricated by TSIGA to elicit the interest of SANI and other sect members used for the attack).
YAU SAIDU: Before his arrest, SAIDU was an apprentice under Rufai TSIGA at his medicine store in Utako village maket.
Although he denied membership of the Boko Haram sect, he claimed that his uncle , Rufai Abubakar TSIGA and Muahmmadu Sani ISHAQ attempted to enlist him several times.
He identified the perpetrators of the Nyanya bomb blast as Rufai Abubakar TSIGA Muhammadu Sani ISHAQ and Aminu Sadiq OGWUCHE.
He also disclosed that on 13th April, 2014, about 11 hours, a day before the Nyanya bombing, Rufai Abubakar TSIGA and Muhammadu Sani ISHAQ drove out from Utako village market in a black-coloured Honda Accord car and returned about 15 hours . Later the same day, they went out again in the same car and did not return until the following day, 14th April 2014 about 11 hours after the Nyanya bombing incident had occurred.
He alleged that when TSIGA learnt of Muhammadu Sani ISAQ’s arrest he fled Utako to an unknown location and left his business in his care.
TSIGA equally sent a message to his wife, Hauwa on GSM 07067434122 directing her to pack her belongings and flee the area.
ADMU YUSUF ----Was arrested in Bauchi on 5th May, 2014. He is forty-three (43) years old . He confessed that he is clerk member of the Boko Haram. Adamu was a clerk at Finance Quarters Mosque, Wuye, Abuja.
Muhammadu S ani ISAHQ disclosed that Rufai Abubakar TSIGA confirmed to him that the bombs used for the Nyanya incident were coupled in a bush near the residence of Adamu Yusus.
Adamu YUSUF however claims that even though he knows Rufai Abubakar TSIGA, the mastermind of the Nyanya bombing, he did not take part in the bombing incident. He mentioned other members of the sect known to him to be;
Rufai Abubakar TSIGA
Imam Ahmad Rufai Abubakar
Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche
Anas Isah
He claimed to be an apprentice under Rufai Abubakar TSIGA along with Anas ISAH.
ADAMU claimed that on the day of the Nyanya bomb blast, Rufai Abubakar TSIGA, called and told him that he heard of the bomb blast and that it was a job well done.
In 2013, Rufai Abubakar TSIGA invited ANAS to join his clinic at Utako village. He identified Mohammadu Sani ISAHQ and Rufai Abubakar TSIGA as members of the sect especially as the latter had confided in him his membership of the Boko Haram sect.
(Source: #Tribune)
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