Boko Haram Senator Ndume released on bail

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Again, an explosion rocked Kaduna on Monday, destroying about seven houses, including one used as a factory to assemble explosive devices at the Mando village, near the National Eye Hospital, Kaduna.

Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect were reported to have escaped death in the explosion, just as the police announced the discovery of a factory where the suspects were trying to assemble a bomb which eventually exploded.

The explosion caused pandemonium on Ibrahim Rintiyi Street, Unguwan Magaji, Mando village in Kaduna, even as hundreds were seen running to a nearby military formation for safety.

“We thought it was an attack on the nearby hospital. You can see us running for safety to the Nigerian Defence Academy, (NDA), Kaduna,” a fleeing man said.

Meanwhile, Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, was again, on Monday, rocked by another explosion at Pompomari area of the city, shattering the fragile peace that returned to the state in the wake of the earlier blast.

Consequently, residents of the area have been thrown into panic, as many of them reportedly fled their residences as a result of the incident.

Similarly, armed robbers, numbering about 24, killed four policemen in Zamfara State in the early hours of Monday.

Eyewitness told the Nigerian Tribune that the incident occurred between 6.00 a.m.and 7.00 a.m. at Jangeme village of Gusau Local Government Area, about 25 kilometres away from the state capital.

The four policemen who were killed by the hoodlums were Sergeant Hassan Bako; Corporal Dominic Maiwada; Constable Yahaya Ibrahim and Inspector Lawal Ibrahim, while the identities of the two traders could not be ascertained as of press time.

In another development, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, admited Senator Mohammed Ndume to bail in the sum of N25 million with two sureties in like sum, adding that such sureties must be a national officer of Ndume’s political party or a principal officer of the National Assembly.

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