The Kano State Police Command said on Wednesday paraded a suspected female bomber, Zaharau Babangida, 13years, who intended to attack the Kano textile market two weeks ago in the metropolis.

The suspected bomber said she came all the way from Bauchi to carry out the heinous act in the Kano market.

She told journalists that her father took her and her mother to an unknown forest where they met other terrorists in what was supposed to be their camp.

Zaharau confessed that her father asked her if she wanted to go to heaven and she said yes then he father persuaded her to become a suicide bomber so as to enter heaven on the day of judgement.

“My father said I should first go to heaven and he would join me later. I was so disturbed and decided to do what they asked me to do.

“They told us that if we refused to take part in that operation they would kill us or they would bury us alive,” she said.

In his briefing, the state Police Commissioner, Mr. Aderenle Shinaba, the bombing taking place at various places had nothing to do with religion or tribe.

“We want to disabuse the minds of the public on some insinuations and unfounded rumours that it is the non-indigenes that carry out such heinous acts.

“In view of the various attacks in Kano, one can understand that no particular tribe is responsible for that, likewise it has nothing to do with the government,” he said.

The commissioner also displayed some of the items recovered from her including seven explosives and a power source.

He warned the residents to desist from spreading rumours as the command would not allow
people to take laws into their hands.

Shinaba, who called for the continued support and cooperation of the public, said the police would also continue to treat any information given to its personnel with utmost confidentiality.