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Nyanya Bomb Blast: Confusion Trails Suspect’s Trial
 
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Sat, 27 Sep 2014   ||   Nigeria,
 

There was confusion yesterday between the Nigerian police and the State Security Service (SSS) over who should prosecute Aminu Ogwuche, the suspect arrested for masterminding the Nyanya Bomb blast that killed 75 innocent Nigerians.

Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court Abuja fixed November 10, 2014 for the arraignment of the suspect.

Ogwuche is being held for allegedly masterminding the bomb blast that killed 75 people at a bus station and thereafter escaping to Sudan.

The Inspector General of Police on behalf of the federal government had initially filed charges before a Federal High Court in Abuja, which aided Ogwuche’s extradition from Sudan to Nigeria.

The 3-count charge filed on behalf of the IGP by Oloye Torugbene, a deputy Ssperintendent of Police, alleged the suspect conspired with others (at large), to commit an act of terrorism by detonating improvised explosive devices at Nyanya Motor Park, which resulted in the death of 75 persons and injuring over a hundred other persons.

Count two of the charge reads, “That you, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, Male, and others now at large, on the 14th of April, 2014 at Nyanya, FCT, Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, did facilitate the activities of persons engaged in an act of terrorism.”

 

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