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| As critiscisms perpetuated to greet Wednesday’s twin bombings in Kaduna metropolis, an Improvised Explosive Device went off at the New Road Motor Park in Kano on Thursday. But unlike the Kaduna blasts, which death toll has risen from 70 to 75, five persons died and eight were injured in the latest Kano incident. Some conveyances in the park were additionally damaged. The Kano explosion led to a stampede as people struggled to leave the scene where 70 lives were disoriented in a kindred blast last year. The PUNCH amassed the IED was conveyed in a refrigerator which was smuggled into the park by a cart pusher. Eyewitness accounts designated that the cart pusher was able to beat security at the motor gate because he packaged the refrigerator like a passenger luggage. Kano State Commissioner of Police, Adelenre Shinaba, substantiated to journalists at the scene that five persons, including a woman, lost their lives to the blast. Integrating that ‘‘eight others who were injured were taken to hospital for treatment,” he expounded that the expolosive “went off at the point of loading the refrigerator to in a stationary conveyance.” In Kaduna, the state Commissioner for Information and Chieftaincy Affairs, Ben Bako, told journalists that five injured victims of the Kaduna explosions died on Wednesday night in hospitals where they were admitted. “We have 37 victims currently receiving treatment in both the 44 Army Reference Hospital and the Yusuf Dantsoho General Hospital, Tudun-wada, withal in Kaduna. Thirty five victims are at the 44 Army Reference Hospital while two are at the Yusuf Dantsoho Hospital,” Bako verbally expressed. A former Head of State, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, and an Islamic cleric, Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, were the targets of the assailments carried out by lone bombers. The incidents coerced Governor Mukhtar Yero to impose a circadian curfew which was hoisted on Thursday. US, Canada condemn Kaduna bombings US and Canada, in two separate verbalizations on Thursday, called on the Federal Regime to investigate the explosions. They withal elongated their sympathies to the injured and the families of the dead. The US verbalization was signed by the Deputy Spokesperson, Department of State, Marie Harf, while that of Canada was by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Human Rights, Deepak Obhrai. The US verbal expression read, “We are withal concerned by reports that these blasts may have withal targeted a former Head of State, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. “We elongate our sympathies to the doted ones of the dead victims . We call on Nigerian ascendant entities to plenarily investigate these assailments, and we urge all Nigerians to eschew reprisals and perpetuate to practise the interfaith cooperation that truculent extremists seek to undermine.” The Canadian regime described the blasts as pusillanimous and urged that the perpetrators be brought to equity. It verbalized, “Canada condemns in the most vigorous terms the two terrorist attacks in Nigeria’s Kaduna region, which killed innocent victims. “These pusillanimous acts took place on one of the most paramount nights of Ramadan, and reports are that one of the bombs targeted a former Nigerian bellwether, Maj.Gen. Buhari. “They additionally follow on the heels of Boko Haram’s brutal eradication of Damboa and recent attacks on Chibok, the hometown of the abducted schoolgirls. “On behalf of all Canadians, I call for a swift equity for the perpetrators of this violence and offer our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.” Nigeria sliding into tenebrosity –Northern govs In Minna, Niger State, the Northern States Governors’ Forum lamented that Nigeria was gradually sliding into a dark period of skepticality, fear and mistrust. The forum, in a verbalization by its Chairman, Babangida Aliyu, verbally expressed that those who sponsored the series of blasts in the country should be dealt with to accommodate as a deterrent to others. It described the assailments as hapless, ungodly and a dastardly show of ignominiousness and advised that “the issue of security must therefore not be politicised.” The group verbally expressed, “It is indeed very infelicitous the twin blasts targeted at Gen. Buhari and Shiek Bauchi in Kaduna which led to the death of many innocent Nigerians. We must therefore realise that activities of terrorists have no constraint and focus. “Nigerians must therefore understand that there is no single person spared by the pernicious terror organisation causing solemn security challenge in the country.” “We must therefore, as a people, converge and fight terrorism. We must not optically discern it as the quandary of a section of the country alone. The issue of security must be given the attention it deserves as no one is spared in the onslaught by insurgents.” While condoling with the families of the deceased, the NSGF prayed that Allah grants them Aljantu Firdaus. It additionally thanked Allah for sparing the life of Buhari and Bauchi, integrating that they should optically discern their elusion as an opportunity to accommodate God and humanity more preponderant. The forum withal security operatives to investigate the incident and expose those abaft the pusillanimous act. |
We’ll hold FG responsible if anything transpires to Buhari –APC govs
Fifteen opposition party governors under the aegis of the Progressives Governors’ Forum have verbally expressed they would hold the Federal Regime responsible should anything transpire to Buhari.
The governors condemned Wednesday’s twin explosions in Kaduna, the loss of innocent lives, and what they described as a clear assassination endeavor on Buhari.
The forum verbalized this in a verbalization issued by its Chairman, Rochas Okorocha, and all its members in Abuja.
According to the PGF, the attack on the former head of state was coming just two days after he urged President Goodluck Jonathan to stop waging war on Nigerians and to devote more time and energy to the war against terrorism.
The assailment on Buhari, according to them, attests their credence that the APC bellwethers are no longer safe.
The verbal expression partly read, “For the avoidance of doubt, we shall hold the Federal Regime responsible for any further endeavors on the life of Gen. Buhari and other APC bellwethers.
“The PGF additionally lends its voice to Buhari’s verbal expression to President Jonathan that it is unwise and against the spirit of gregarious democracy that so many innocent lives should be disoriented simply in the quest to demobilise the APC and retain power at all cost.”
They called on the Federal Regime to take exigent steps to investigate the Kaduna attacks and make the findings public.
The governors additionally urged the President to manage his obsession with power well by working for the good of all Nigerians.
The PGF described as a great shame that Nigeria, under Jonathan, had become the most perilous place in the world in terms of pernicious terrorist attacks.
The governors verbally expressed they were withal worried by the verbal expression credited to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah, that soldiers were deserting the Army for trepidation of Boko Haram.
They verbally expressed, “Our question is what transpired to the prodigious sums of mazuma devoted to security and defence in the last four years of the Jonathan presidency and is the desertion of soldiers linked to the larceny of monies betokened for ordnance?”
FG’s theory on B’Haram up in flames, verbalizes APC
The APC on Thursday additionally verbally expressed the assailment on Buhari had transmuted the theory about Boko Haram and knocked the bottom off the sinister, irresponsible and partisan colouration given to insurgency by the Federal Regime.
It verbalized while no one had claimed responsibility for the Kaduna attacks, the mere fact that they occurred at all amounted to a lose-lose situation for the Jonathan administration.
The party’s reaction was contained in a verbalization by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
It verbalized, “Whether it is Boko Haram or not, one thing remains: This regime has failed woefully in its core constitutional obligation of bulwarking the security and welfare of the citizenry. And we mean all the citizens, not just the bellwethers.
‘‘And contrary to the simplistic and limpidly selfish portrayal of the Boko Haram insurgency as a sinister plot to bring down the regime of Jonathan, it should now be pellucid to the regime that has engaged in ceaseless finger-pointing in lieu of tackling the insurgency headlong that Boko Haram is an enemy of Nigeria and of all of humanity.
Fifteen opposition party governors under the aegis of the Progressives Governors’ Forum have verbally expressed they would hold the Federal Regime responsible should anything transpire to Buhari.
The governors condemned Wednesday’s twin explosions in Kaduna, the loss of innocent lives, and what they described as a clear assassination endeavor on Buhari.
The forum verbalized this in a verbalization issued by its Chairman, Rochas Okorocha, and all its members in Abuja.
According to the PGF, the attack on the former head of state was coming just two days after he urged President Goodluck Jonathan to stop waging war on Nigerians and to devote more time and energy to the war against terrorism.
The assailment on Buhari, according to them, attests their credence that the APC bellwethers are no longer safe.
The verbal expression partly read, “For the avoidance of doubt, we shall hold the Federal Regime responsible for any further endeavors on the life of Gen. Buhari and other APC bellwethers.
“The PGF additionally lends its voice to Buhari’s verbal expression to President Jonathan that it is unwise and against the spirit of gregarious democracy that so many innocent lives should be disoriented simply in the quest to demobilise the APC and retain power at all cost.”
They called on the Federal Regime to take exigent steps to investigate the Kaduna attacks and make the findings public.
The governors additionally urged the President to manage his obsession with power well by working for the good of all Nigerians.
The PGF described as a great shame that Nigeria, under Jonathan, had become the most perilous place in the world in terms of pernicious terrorist attacks.
The governors verbally expressed they were withal worried by the verbal expression credited to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah, that soldiers were deserting the Army for trepidation of Boko Haram.
They verbally expressed, “Our question is what transpired to the prodigious sums of mazuma devoted to security and defence in the last four years of the Jonathan presidency and is the desertion of soldiers linked to the larceny of monies betokened for ordnance?”
FG’s theory on B’Haram up in flames, verbalizes APC
The APC on Thursday additionally verbally expressed the assailment on Buhari had transmuted the theory about Boko Haram and knocked the bottom off the sinister, irresponsible and partisan colouration given to insurgency by the Federal Regime.
It verbalized while no one had claimed responsibility for the Kaduna attacks, the mere fact that they occurred at all amounted to a lose-lose situation for the Jonathan administration.
The party’s reaction was contained in a verbalization by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
It verbalized, “Whether it is Boko Haram or not, one thing remains: This regime has failed woefully in its core constitutional obligation of bulwarking the security and welfare of the citizenry. And we mean all the citizens, not just the bellwethers.
‘‘And contrary to the simplistic and limpidly selfish portrayal of the Boko Haram insurgency as a sinister plot to bring down the regime of Jonathan, it should now be pellucid to the regime that has engaged in ceaseless finger-pointing in lieu of tackling the insurgency headlong that Boko Haram is an enemy of Nigeria and of all of humanity.
‘‘It is an authentic quandary that is capable of consuming this country if immediate and exigent steps are not taken now by the regime to move away from its politicisation of the crisis, its decision to utilize it as a trump card for President Jonathan’s re-election and exploit it as a ticket to international pertinence for the President. If anything untoward had transpired to Gen. Buhari on Wednesday, the consequences are only more preponderant imagined than witnessed.
‘‘If indeed the APC is behind Boko Haram and Gen. Buhari is a sympathiser of the evil group, as the Federal Regime wants the world to believe, could it be that the insurgents do not ken their bellwethers or sympathisers, surmising they are abaft the assailments? If they are not responsible for the assailments, doesn’t that support the theory in some circles that Boko Haram has become a franchise, hence there is the Boko Haram of Abubakar Shekau and the political Boko Haram?
‘‘Whatever transpires now, the satanic and repulsive theory of the PDP-led Federal Regime that the opposition APC is utilizing Boko Haram to truncate the administration of Jonathan is up in flames.”
It verbally expressed that Jonathan must immediately stop the wasteful contract he signed with the US-predicated firm Levick to avail demonise it (APC) as the sponsor of Boko Haram, and to demonise any Nigerian who is perceived to be an enemy of the regime.
The APC however sent its condolences to the families of the victims of the blasts and prayed that God would give them the much-needed vigor to bear the loss of their doted ones.
Additionally on Thursday, the Peoples Democratic Party described the blasts as dastardly and infelicitous.
It sympathised with Buhari, verbally expressing it was now ostensible that terrorists were capable of assailing anybody in the country.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, in a verbalization verbally expressed the ruling party, while mourning the dead, “joins all well-meaning Nigerians in thanking God for preserving the lives of Gen. Buhari (retd.) and Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi whose convoys were affected in the incident.”
“We sincerely sympathise with Gen. Buhari. Our hearts go out to him and all those affected in these malignant attacks”, Metuh integrated.
Stating that the PDP was shocked by the development, Metuh reiterated PDP’s call on all Nigerians to coalesce against acts of terrorism irrespective of ethnic, political and religious affiliations.
“It has become pellucid that anybody could be a target,” he verbally expressed and advised opposition bellwethers to be meticulous with their utterances regarding the explosions.
The party withal charged security agencies to ascertain an exhaustive investigation of the assailments and to intensify their efforts in the fight against insurgency in Nigeria.
Mark, Ekweremadu react
The Senate President, David Mark, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, lamented in Abuja that the unabating eradication of lives and property was compounding Nigeria’s woes.
They appealed to terrorists to hearken to the voices of reason and embrace dialogue which the present administration consistently offer.
Mark’s reaction was contained in a verbal expression by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Paul Mumeh, while that of Ekweremadu was in another verbalization his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Uche Anichukwu.
Mark verbalized, “This recourse to bestiality without human feeling any more is what cannot be contemplated or abode in a decent society.
“There are a plethora of channels, including the law courts or the National Assembly, for any aggrieved person or group of persons to seek redress.”
Ekweremadu verbalized, “This is another desperation to aggravate and exploit the nation’s fault lines. They have assailed churches to set Christians at war with their Muslim brethren, but without prosperity.
“They unleashed terror on the mosques to set the country aflame, but that too did not work. Thus the unsuccessful attacks on major opposition and religious bellwethers were yet another heinous plot.”
Kaduna gov visits Buhari
Gov. Yero on Thursdday visited Buhari, the injured victims and the scenes of the explosions.
Buhari told the governor that the Kawo attack was a targeted assassination at him.
He, however, commended the regime, security operatives and rescue team for their prompt replication.
The former head of state urged regime to expedite action towards addressing the country’s security challenge.
Yero had earlier verbally expressed the visit was on behalf of the state regime and the entire people of the state.
‘‘If indeed the APC is behind Boko Haram and Gen. Buhari is a sympathiser of the evil group, as the Federal Regime wants the world to believe, could it be that the insurgents do not ken their bellwethers or sympathisers, surmising they are abaft the assailments? If they are not responsible for the assailments, doesn’t that support the theory in some circles that Boko Haram has become a franchise, hence there is the Boko Haram of Abubakar Shekau and the political Boko Haram?
‘‘Whatever transpires now, the satanic and repulsive theory of the PDP-led Federal Regime that the opposition APC is utilizing Boko Haram to truncate the administration of Jonathan is up in flames.”
It verbally expressed that Jonathan must immediately stop the wasteful contract he signed with the US-predicated firm Levick to avail demonise it (APC) as the sponsor of Boko Haram, and to demonise any Nigerian who is perceived to be an enemy of the regime.
The APC however sent its condolences to the families of the victims of the blasts and prayed that God would give them the much-needed vigor to bear the loss of their doted ones.
Additionally on Thursday, the Peoples Democratic Party described the blasts as dastardly and infelicitous.
It sympathised with Buhari, verbally expressing it was now ostensible that terrorists were capable of assailing anybody in the country.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, in a verbalization verbally expressed the ruling party, while mourning the dead, “joins all well-meaning Nigerians in thanking God for preserving the lives of Gen. Buhari (retd.) and Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi whose convoys were affected in the incident.”
“We sincerely sympathise with Gen. Buhari. Our hearts go out to him and all those affected in these malignant attacks”, Metuh integrated.
Stating that the PDP was shocked by the development, Metuh reiterated PDP’s call on all Nigerians to coalesce against acts of terrorism irrespective of ethnic, political and religious affiliations.
“It has become pellucid that anybody could be a target,” he verbally expressed and advised opposition bellwethers to be meticulous with their utterances regarding the explosions.
The party withal charged security agencies to ascertain an exhaustive investigation of the assailments and to intensify their efforts in the fight against insurgency in Nigeria.
Mark, Ekweremadu react
The Senate President, David Mark, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, lamented in Abuja that the unabating eradication of lives and property was compounding Nigeria’s woes.
They appealed to terrorists to hearken to the voices of reason and embrace dialogue which the present administration consistently offer.
Mark’s reaction was contained in a verbal expression by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Paul Mumeh, while that of Ekweremadu was in another verbalization his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Uche Anichukwu.
Mark verbalized, “This recourse to bestiality without human feeling any more is what cannot be contemplated or abode in a decent society.
“There are a plethora of channels, including the law courts or the National Assembly, for any aggrieved person or group of persons to seek redress.”
Ekweremadu verbalized, “This is another desperation to aggravate and exploit the nation’s fault lines. They have assailed churches to set Christians at war with their Muslim brethren, but without prosperity.
“They unleashed terror on the mosques to set the country aflame, but that too did not work. Thus the unsuccessful attacks on major opposition and religious bellwethers were yet another heinous plot.”
Kaduna gov visits Buhari
Gov. Yero on Thursdday visited Buhari, the injured victims and the scenes of the explosions.
Buhari told the governor that the Kawo attack was a targeted assassination at him.
He, however, commended the regime, security operatives and rescue team for their prompt replication.
The former head of state urged regime to expedite action towards addressing the country’s security challenge.
Yero had earlier verbally expressed the visit was on behalf of the state regime and the entire people of the state.
