Report: Three more suspects connected to Abuja bombings, arrested

Reports coming in, states that the police, in it's quest to uncover the brains behind the bombings that occurred separately at Nyanya and Kuje areas of the federal capital territory Abuja, has arrested 3 more suspects who are in connection with the bombings.

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The three suspects, who were paraded at the Special Anti- Robbery Squad Headquarters in Abuja on Thursday.. Also on display, where several bomb- making materials recovered from them.

It was alleged that the suspects, had in some way, aided the bombings which occurred in two satellite towns in the Federal Capital Territory, on October 2, 2015. And claimed about 20 lives with several others injured.

Earlier on, the police, had announced the arrest of Abdulazeez Muhazab and Ishaka Salihu. But on Thursday, five suspects were being paraded. Amongst the suspects paraded on Thursday, are Mohammed Jimoh, Abdulwaheed Nasiru and Abdullahi Nasiru, who were apprehended at various locations
in Abuja.

According to a police source, the suspects where apprehended by members of a special task force that was set up to investigate the bombings, after they where traced to a  Karamajiji village, along the Airport Road, Abuja. The source also gave the ages of the suspects to be between 26 - 34 years.

“On further investigation after the arrest of the first suspect in Karamajiji, other suspects were picked up in Iddo village, also along Airport Road and Gaulaka area in Suleja, Niger State,” the source said.

Additionally, the source, who disclosed to newsmen that the bomb making materials, were gotten from two of the houses used by the terrorist.

He also added that the suspects, had all confessed to being part of a terrorist group with the intention of carrying out bombings
around Abuja, and that other accomplices mentioned by the suspects, were still on the run.

According to Alabainfo sources, the suspects, were later arraigned at the Federal High Court seating in Abuja, on five charges bordering on terrorism, conspiracy, accessory to acts of terrorism and act preparatory to an act of terrorism.