We have no case to answer, suspects tell court on Suleja Bombings

Six alleged kingpins of the Boko Haram sect in Niger State, who were apprehended while on their way to Kaduna State to attack the venue of an event that was attended by Vice President Namadi Sambo in Kaduna on July 28, 2011, yesterday, challenged the powers of the Federal Government to prosecute them. They include Shuaibu Abubakar, Salisu Ahmed, Umar Babagana-Umar, Mohammed Ali, Musa Adam and Umar Ibrahim.

The States Security Service, SSS, which recommended their trial, had maintained that its investigations revealed that it was the accused persons that masterminded the explosion that rocked office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Suleja, Niger State, prior to the April 16, 2011, presidential election.

A senior Army officer who led the team of soldiers that caught the suspects at Gummel Junction at Kachia Kaduna on July 27, 2011, had in his evidence-in-chief told the trial court that a text message found in the in-box of a mobile handset confiscated from one of the suspects, revealed that each of the accused persons was promised an inheritance of 72 virgins in paradise, assuming they succeeded in bombing the event that was attended by the Vice President and some Northern governors.
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