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Nigeria has passed a pilot test for migration from terrestrial air navigation to a satellite-based navigation, the Nigerian Airspace Management Authority (NAMA) said yesterday.
The Managing Director of NAMA, Mr Nnamdi Udoh, told journalists on Monday, in Ikeja, that the feat was a great one in view of the country’s quest for advancement.
He explained that the satellite-based navigation — Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) — was also known as Performance-Based Navigation (PBN).
“Nigeria’s bold attempt to migrate from terrestrial air navigation to a satellite-based navigation system received a boost at the weekend when two foreign airlines tested the new procedure with pilots landing successfully at the Lagos and Kano airports respectively.
“The Emirates airline was the first to carry out the approach test on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) in Lagos while the KLM recorded same in Kano.
“With the success recorded in our quest for moving from terrestrial to a satellite-based air navigation system, Nigeria has joined the league of big countries that are already operating the ICAO-endorsed air navigation programme,’’ he said.
The NAMA boss said the PBN was cost effective, explaining that it required less fuel during aircraft takeoff and landing.
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
JTF discovers bomb-laden vehicle in Kano
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An explosive-laden vehicle was intercepted in Kano yesterday.
It was parked at the ever-busy Zaria Road bypass in the metropolis before the Joint Task Force (JTF) men intercepted the vehicle and destroyed the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) loaded in it.
It was gathered that passers-by who saw the vehicle became apprehensive as people ran helter-skelter.
An eyewitness said the vehicle was noticed at about 10:30am.
The Kano JTF was notified and its men quickly rushed to the scene. They discovered that the vehicle was loaded with explosives. The motive for parking the vehicle at that spot is yet to be ascertained.
JTF spokesman Lt. Ikedichi Iweha said: “This morning, the JTF discovered the vehicle laden with explosives. My men hurriedly rushed to the area and in the process, they were able to detonate the explosives. We thank God that nothing happened. The area has been cordoned off and the vehicle moved for safe keeping.”
An explosive-laden vehicle was intercepted in Kano yesterday.
It was parked at the ever-busy Zaria Road bypass in the metropolis before the Joint Task Force (JTF) men intercepted the vehicle and destroyed the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) loaded in it.
It was gathered that passers-by who saw the vehicle became apprehensive as people ran helter-skelter.
An eyewitness said the vehicle was noticed at about 10:30am.
The Kano JTF was notified and its men quickly rushed to the scene. They discovered that the vehicle was loaded with explosives. The motive for parking the vehicle at that spot is yet to be ascertained.
JTF spokesman Lt. Ikedichi Iweha said: “This morning, the JTF discovered the vehicle laden with explosives. My men hurriedly rushed to the area and in the process, they were able to detonate the explosives. We thank God that nothing happened. The area has been cordoned off and the vehicle moved for safe keeping.”
5,000 policemen on the alert as Jonathan opens Almajiri school in Sokoto
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Security has been tightened in Sokoto as President Goodluck Jonathan visits the state to inaugurate the Federal Government Model Almajiri School.
The Almajiri School project is part of the programmes initiated by the Federal Government to combat the poor education of youths in the North, which is believed to be one of the reasons for the security breach in that part of the country.
The police have mobilised about 5,000 men for today’s presidential visit.
The model boarding school with modern facilities is in Gagi in Sokoto metropolis.
The Federal Executive Council approved the construction of 400 Almajiri schools across the 19 Northern states.
Government is spending about N5b on the project.
The approval was in fulfillment of the promise by Jonathan to tackle the Almajiri syndrome in the Northern states by ensuring that millions of the street children get access to formal education.
The President insisted that the Almajiri syndrome was responsible for the high level of insecurity and other social menace in the North.
Minister of Education Prof. Ruqqayat Rufai, said the schools would be equipped with basic facilities to promote the learning of Islamic religious knowledge and western education.
Minister of State for Education Nyesom Wike, who was directly supervising the project said 100 of the schools had been built and would be delivered before June.
The model school in Sokoto has among other facilities: language Laboratory, recitation hall, classrooms and dormitories.
Other facilities include: a clinic, vocational workshop, dining hall and mallam quarters.
Speaking on the project yesterday in Sokoto, the Director of Media in the Governor’s Office, Alhaji Hassan Maccido, said the people were excited by the inauguration of the school.
He said Sokoto occupied a strategic position in the Northern region and in Islamic education in particular.
Maccido said the Almajiri system of education at its inception was like the western convent where a child is trained with religious ethics.
“The essence of Almajiri schooling is to take your child from you to a school environment where a Mallam takes care of him, gives him education and moulds his character.
“The foundation is for the child to have an independent mind of his own and to be able to fend for himself.
“Unfortunately, the system came to be abused as what we see now is that a father takes child to Almajiri school headed by a Mallam who does not do the job right.
“When a child is in need, the Mallam sends him out to engage in all sorts of things,” he said.
He said the state had earlier taken pro-active approach to reposition the Almajiri system and returned it to its original state of a formal set-up where a child is trained in islamic education before western education school system.
Maccido said the state government had established a school which, at the moment, admitted about 1000 pupils from Sokoto and neighbouring States.
He said the state government is planning to build additional schools in all its senatorial districts to complement the Federal Government efforts.
Sokoto Police Commissioner, Alhaji Aliyu Musa, said yesterday that about 5,000 police personnel had been mobilised to provide security during President Jonathan’s official visit.
Musa told the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) in Sokoto that measures had been taken to provide adequate security.
He said that all the assistant commissioners of police had been assigned to each of the identified routes Mr President was expected to follow.
He said officers had been briefed on the security modalities they were expected to adopt during and after the visit.
“ All we expect from members of the general public is intelligence reports that will help us strategise our mode of operation in task of building a safe society, “ Musa said.
He called on the officers and men of the command to continue to put in their best as hard working ones would always be rewarded while the indolent ones ways be sanctioned.
president Jonathan
Security has been tightened in Sokoto as President Goodluck Jonathan visits the state to inaugurate the Federal Government Model Almajiri School.
The Almajiri School project is part of the programmes initiated by the Federal Government to combat the poor education of youths in the North, which is believed to be one of the reasons for the security breach in that part of the country.
The police have mobilised about 5,000 men for today’s presidential visit.
The model boarding school with modern facilities is in Gagi in Sokoto metropolis.
The Federal Executive Council approved the construction of 400 Almajiri schools across the 19 Northern states.
Government is spending about N5b on the project.
The approval was in fulfillment of the promise by Jonathan to tackle the Almajiri syndrome in the Northern states by ensuring that millions of the street children get access to formal education.
The President insisted that the Almajiri syndrome was responsible for the high level of insecurity and other social menace in the North.
Minister of Education Prof. Ruqqayat Rufai, said the schools would be equipped with basic facilities to promote the learning of Islamic religious knowledge and western education.
Minister of State for Education Nyesom Wike, who was directly supervising the project said 100 of the schools had been built and would be delivered before June.
The model school in Sokoto has among other facilities: language Laboratory, recitation hall, classrooms and dormitories.
Other facilities include: a clinic, vocational workshop, dining hall and mallam quarters.
Speaking on the project yesterday in Sokoto, the Director of Media in the Governor’s Office, Alhaji Hassan Maccido, said the people were excited by the inauguration of the school.
He said Sokoto occupied a strategic position in the Northern region and in Islamic education in particular.
Maccido said the Almajiri system of education at its inception was like the western convent where a child is trained with religious ethics.
“The essence of Almajiri schooling is to take your child from you to a school environment where a Mallam takes care of him, gives him education and moulds his character.
“The foundation is for the child to have an independent mind of his own and to be able to fend for himself.
“Unfortunately, the system came to be abused as what we see now is that a father takes child to Almajiri school headed by a Mallam who does not do the job right.
“When a child is in need, the Mallam sends him out to engage in all sorts of things,” he said.
He said the state had earlier taken pro-active approach to reposition the Almajiri system and returned it to its original state of a formal set-up where a child is trained in islamic education before western education school system.
Maccido said the state government had established a school which, at the moment, admitted about 1000 pupils from Sokoto and neighbouring States.
He said the state government is planning to build additional schools in all its senatorial districts to complement the Federal Government efforts.
Sokoto Police Commissioner, Alhaji Aliyu Musa, said yesterday that about 5,000 police personnel had been mobilised to provide security during President Jonathan’s official visit.
Musa told the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) in Sokoto that measures had been taken to provide adequate security.
He said that all the assistant commissioners of police had been assigned to each of the identified routes Mr President was expected to follow.
He said officers had been briefed on the security modalities they were expected to adopt during and after the visit.
“ All we expect from members of the general public is intelligence reports that will help us strategise our mode of operation in task of building a safe society, “ Musa said.
He called on the officers and men of the command to continue to put in their best as hard working ones would always be rewarded while the indolent ones ways be sanctioned.
Boko Haram strikes again as Kaduna counts losses
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Kaduna, the North’s political capital, recovered yesterday from the hangover of the Easter Sunday suicide bombing to start counting its losses.
Scores died and many others are hospitalised.
But the violence that dampened the Easter celebration continued yesterday, with the Islamist sect, Boko Haram launching attacks in Yobe and Borno states.
Seven people were confirmed dead in the attacks. The sect attaked Dikwa, a Borno town, setting ablaze a police station, a bank and a hotel.
An attempt to raze down the local government secretariat was repelled.
In Potiskum, Yobe State, a seven-year-old girl was shot dead during a failed attempt to kill her policeman father hours after the group’s members killed three in a separate raid, the army and the police said.
They fired shots into the house of a police sergeant in the northeastern town of Potiskum late Sunday, police spokesman Toyin Gbadegesin said.
“They fired shots at him while sitting in the midst of his family. He managed to avoid the bullets and scaled over the fence,” Gbadegesin said.
“The gunmen shot dead his seven-year-old-daughter and seriously injured another 12-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old-son who are now in hospital.”
In a separate attack in the northeastern town of Dikwa around 1:30 am, Boko Haram gunmen killed a policeman, a civilian and a local politician in co-ordinated attacks, the army said.
The attackers targeted a police station, a bank and a hotel but were repelled by army troops, according to Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, spokesman of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno State.
“Three Boko Haram terrorists were killed and many escaped with bullet wounds,” Lt.-Col. Musa said.
Among those killed in the siege on the town that lasted for over an hour, were a former council boss, Alhaji Babagana Ali Karim; a police Sergeant and a civilian whose names were not revealed.
It was also gathered that the military had to be deployed from nearby military facilities before the siege could be smashed and three members of the sect were left dead and many others injured.
Confirming the attack in a statement in Maiduguri, Lt.-Col. Musa said “between 01:35 and 02:45 hours of Monday, suspected Boko Haran terrorists attacked and burnt Dikwa police station, Unity Bank, Freedom Hotel and attempted to burn Dikwa Local Government Secretariat. The JTF Forward Operating bases in Dikwa and Gamboru, the 202 Battalion and the Nigeria Police personnel in the area were all called to action before the militants could be repelled.”
Lt.-Col. Musa confirmed the killing of the former council boss, a police sergeant and a civilian. He said three sect members were killed by the military with many others escaping with bullet wounds.
Musa said items recovered include an unregistered Isuzu pick up van (milk coloured), a pump action gun, an AK47 rifle, a double barrel gun, a box loaded with assorted ammunition, 19 empty magazines of AK47 rifle, a bullet proof jacket, a crash helmet and a DVD player. The JTF spokesman claimed that normalcy had returned to the area.
The Borno State Police Command yesterday gave a cash reward of N500,000 to a man who gave out information that led to the smashing of a planned assassination of a clergyman.
Speaking during the presentation of cash to the man whose name was withheld for security reason, the Borno State Police Commissioner, Bala Hassan, said the informant gave the information that led to the arrest of two hoodlums and recovery of arms.
He urged the other residents of the town to borrow a leaf from the informant.
In another incident, two suspected Boko Haram members in a Peugeot 406 Saloon car with registration number AT 647 GWA shot sporadically into the air at about mid-day, scaring people off the streets of Maiduguri.
The shooting, which took place around Baga road and Hausari, caused pandemonium.
JTF spokesman Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa said the vehicle used by the sect members was stolen at gun point from a mechanic’s workshop.
He said the vehicle was ridden with bullets and that further information would be made available later.
There was confusion over the Kaduna casualty figure.
Commercial motorcyclists claimed they lost 100 members in the blast.
But the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said yesterday that only nine people were killed.
This is contrary to the figure of 38 dead given on Sunday by Abubakar Zakari Adamu, spokesman of the Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA).
Commissioner of Police Mohammed Abubakar Jingiri disputed the figures, saying only five persons died while 16 were injured. “The bomb explosion was massive, which resulted from the death of the suicide bomber and five persons with 16 people injured who were passers-by.”
The suicide bomber struck at the ever-busy Junction Road/ Sardauna Crescent near the Ahmadu Bello Stadium.
NEMA said besides the nine dead, 38 people were injured and taken to hospitals.
It also claimed that eight buildings, including a bank and two hotels, were shattered by the explosion. About 23 motor-cycles were damaged during the incident.
The agency gave the statistics in a stock-taking statement in Abuja by its Head of Public Relations, Alhaji Yushau A . Shuaib.
The statement said: “For the quick intervention of security personnel and emergency rescuers, more lives were saved from the suspected suicide explosion that occurred on Easter Sunday in Kaduna.
“The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) can authoritatively confirm nine deaths and 38 with varied degrees of injuries receiving treatment at various hospitals in Kaduna and Zaria.
“The figures were obtained after a joint rapid assessment by officials of the agency and the stakeholders which reveals that some of the injured persons that were initially presumed dead have since regained consciousness following their prompt evacuation and access to medical assistance.
“Alerts of the explosion had prompted the agency to immediately rally the stakeholders that deployed ambulances and para-medics in carrying out the quick intervention in the evacuation of the affected persons who were taken to the various medical facilities for necessary assistance. These included the Red Cross, Civil Defence, Kaduna SEMA, Police and the military. The medical facilities are: Barau Dikko Specialist Hospital, St Gerald Catholic Hospital, Rakiya Memorial, 44 Army Reference Hospital and ABUTH Zaria.
“The Director General NEMA, Alhaji Muhammad Sani Sidi, in prompt response to the situation has visited some of the hospitals where the victims are receiving treatment and promised adequate assistance for their recovery.
“Among other immediate impacts caused by the explosion were eight buildings, including a bank, two hotels, an eatery and commercial shops that were affected and about 23 motor cycles which were also damaged.”
The Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association in Kaduna State yesterday claimed that over 100 of its members died in the Easter Sunday suicide bomb explosion.
The association blamed the government for the seeming unending suicide bombings in the country. It denied that its members were involved in most of the criminal activities and bombings in the country.
Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association of Nigeria (ACOMORAN) Secretary General Nasir Mamman, told reporters that over 100 members of the association died in the blast. He urged the government to take concrete measures aimed at safeguarding the lives and property of citizens.
Mamman said an emergency meeting of all the officials of the association in the state had been called to take proper statistics of the dead.
He urged the government to look into the proposal submitted to it by the association aimed at sanitising the union, adding that most of the commercial cyclists engaged in crime were not their members.
He said: “Yesterday was a very dark day because we lost our members and other innocent Nigerians. It is, indeed, very unfortunate. We pray that God will give their families the fortitude to bear the irreparable loses.
“We urge the government to ensure the security of lives and property of citizens. We are not blaming anybody in particular.
“We submitted a proposal to sanitise the union. Part of the proposal is the need for screening before becoming a member. We don’t just want anybody to come into the trade just like that. If the government had worked with our proposal, by now, we would have told you authoritatively the number of those members that died in yesterday’s unfortunate incident, but now we can’t.
“However, we have summoned an emergency meeting of all our chairmen across the five zones in the state and they are here already. On the average, our people are over 100 that lost their lives. We want to authenticate our membership, so we appeal to the state government to do something about our proposal to sanitize the trade.”
Chairman of the Kano Road branch of the association, Danjuma Issa, blamed the government for the incessant bombing in the state, saying the attention of security operatives had been on commercial cyclists while motorists carried explosives around.
Issa said they had been inundated with calls from families of their dead members over the whereabouts of their loved ones.
“It was an unfortunate incident and more so that it affected our members mostly. You see that we are few here today. We are still mourning as we are still taking stock of the dead among us.
“Some of our members could not work yesterday because of the unfortunate incident. It’s most unfortunate. Some of our members are not here and we don’t know what must have happened to them.
“Families of some of our members have been trooping to various hospitals in search of their loved ones. Some of the victims, you cannot even identify because they were burnt beyond recognition.
“I have been bombarded with calls from my family members. They are scared since they learnt of the incident.”
-Seven killed in attacks -Three sect members die in gun duel
Kaduna, the North’s political capital, recovered yesterday from the hangover of the Easter Sunday suicide bombing to start counting its losses.
Scores died and many others are hospitalised.
But the violence that dampened the Easter celebration continued yesterday, with the Islamist sect, Boko Haram launching attacks in Yobe and Borno states.
Seven people were confirmed dead in the attacks. The sect attaked Dikwa, a Borno town, setting ablaze a police station, a bank and a hotel.
An attempt to raze down the local government secretariat was repelled.
In Potiskum, Yobe State, a seven-year-old girl was shot dead during a failed attempt to kill her policeman father hours after the group’s members killed three in a separate raid, the army and the police said.
They fired shots into the house of a police sergeant in the northeastern town of Potiskum late Sunday, police spokesman Toyin Gbadegesin said.
“They fired shots at him while sitting in the midst of his family. He managed to avoid the bullets and scaled over the fence,” Gbadegesin said.
“The gunmen shot dead his seven-year-old-daughter and seriously injured another 12-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old-son who are now in hospital.”
In a separate attack in the northeastern town of Dikwa around 1:30 am, Boko Haram gunmen killed a policeman, a civilian and a local politician in co-ordinated attacks, the army said.
The attackers targeted a police station, a bank and a hotel but were repelled by army troops, according to Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, spokesman of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno State.
“Three Boko Haram terrorists were killed and many escaped with bullet wounds,” Lt.-Col. Musa said.
Among those killed in the siege on the town that lasted for over an hour, were a former council boss, Alhaji Babagana Ali Karim; a police Sergeant and a civilian whose names were not revealed.
It was also gathered that the military had to be deployed from nearby military facilities before the siege could be smashed and three members of the sect were left dead and many others injured.
Confirming the attack in a statement in Maiduguri, Lt.-Col. Musa said “between 01:35 and 02:45 hours of Monday, suspected Boko Haran terrorists attacked and burnt Dikwa police station, Unity Bank, Freedom Hotel and attempted to burn Dikwa Local Government Secretariat. The JTF Forward Operating bases in Dikwa and Gamboru, the 202 Battalion and the Nigeria Police personnel in the area were all called to action before the militants could be repelled.”
Lt.-Col. Musa confirmed the killing of the former council boss, a police sergeant and a civilian. He said three sect members were killed by the military with many others escaping with bullet wounds.
Musa said items recovered include an unregistered Isuzu pick up van (milk coloured), a pump action gun, an AK47 rifle, a double barrel gun, a box loaded with assorted ammunition, 19 empty magazines of AK47 rifle, a bullet proof jacket, a crash helmet and a DVD player. The JTF spokesman claimed that normalcy had returned to the area.
The Borno State Police Command yesterday gave a cash reward of N500,000 to a man who gave out information that led to the smashing of a planned assassination of a clergyman.
Speaking during the presentation of cash to the man whose name was withheld for security reason, the Borno State Police Commissioner, Bala Hassan, said the informant gave the information that led to the arrest of two hoodlums and recovery of arms.
He urged the other residents of the town to borrow a leaf from the informant.
In another incident, two suspected Boko Haram members in a Peugeot 406 Saloon car with registration number AT 647 GWA shot sporadically into the air at about mid-day, scaring people off the streets of Maiduguri.
The shooting, which took place around Baga road and Hausari, caused pandemonium.
JTF spokesman Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa said the vehicle used by the sect members was stolen at gun point from a mechanic’s workshop.
He said the vehicle was ridden with bullets and that further information would be made available later.
There was confusion over the Kaduna casualty figure.
Commercial motorcyclists claimed they lost 100 members in the blast.
But the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said yesterday that only nine people were killed.
This is contrary to the figure of 38 dead given on Sunday by Abubakar Zakari Adamu, spokesman of the Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA).
Commissioner of Police Mohammed Abubakar Jingiri disputed the figures, saying only five persons died while 16 were injured. “The bomb explosion was massive, which resulted from the death of the suicide bomber and five persons with 16 people injured who were passers-by.”
The suicide bomber struck at the ever-busy Junction Road/ Sardauna Crescent near the Ahmadu Bello Stadium.
NEMA said besides the nine dead, 38 people were injured and taken to hospitals.
It also claimed that eight buildings, including a bank and two hotels, were shattered by the explosion. About 23 motor-cycles were damaged during the incident.
The agency gave the statistics in a stock-taking statement in Abuja by its Head of Public Relations, Alhaji Yushau A . Shuaib.
The statement said: “For the quick intervention of security personnel and emergency rescuers, more lives were saved from the suspected suicide explosion that occurred on Easter Sunday in Kaduna.
“The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) can authoritatively confirm nine deaths and 38 with varied degrees of injuries receiving treatment at various hospitals in Kaduna and Zaria.
“The figures were obtained after a joint rapid assessment by officials of the agency and the stakeholders which reveals that some of the injured persons that were initially presumed dead have since regained consciousness following their prompt evacuation and access to medical assistance.
“Alerts of the explosion had prompted the agency to immediately rally the stakeholders that deployed ambulances and para-medics in carrying out the quick intervention in the evacuation of the affected persons who were taken to the various medical facilities for necessary assistance. These included the Red Cross, Civil Defence, Kaduna SEMA, Police and the military. The medical facilities are: Barau Dikko Specialist Hospital, St Gerald Catholic Hospital, Rakiya Memorial, 44 Army Reference Hospital and ABUTH Zaria.
“The Director General NEMA, Alhaji Muhammad Sani Sidi, in prompt response to the situation has visited some of the hospitals where the victims are receiving treatment and promised adequate assistance for their recovery.
“Among other immediate impacts caused by the explosion were eight buildings, including a bank, two hotels, an eatery and commercial shops that were affected and about 23 motor cycles which were also damaged.”
The Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association in Kaduna State yesterday claimed that over 100 of its members died in the Easter Sunday suicide bomb explosion.
The association blamed the government for the seeming unending suicide bombings in the country. It denied that its members were involved in most of the criminal activities and bombings in the country.
Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association of Nigeria (ACOMORAN) Secretary General Nasir Mamman, told reporters that over 100 members of the association died in the blast. He urged the government to take concrete measures aimed at safeguarding the lives and property of citizens.
Mamman said an emergency meeting of all the officials of the association in the state had been called to take proper statistics of the dead.
He urged the government to look into the proposal submitted to it by the association aimed at sanitising the union, adding that most of the commercial cyclists engaged in crime were not their members.
He said: “Yesterday was a very dark day because we lost our members and other innocent Nigerians. It is, indeed, very unfortunate. We pray that God will give their families the fortitude to bear the irreparable loses.
“We urge the government to ensure the security of lives and property of citizens. We are not blaming anybody in particular.
“We submitted a proposal to sanitise the union. Part of the proposal is the need for screening before becoming a member. We don’t just want anybody to come into the trade just like that. If the government had worked with our proposal, by now, we would have told you authoritatively the number of those members that died in yesterday’s unfortunate incident, but now we can’t.
“However, we have summoned an emergency meeting of all our chairmen across the five zones in the state and they are here already. On the average, our people are over 100 that lost their lives. We want to authenticate our membership, so we appeal to the state government to do something about our proposal to sanitize the trade.”
Chairman of the Kano Road branch of the association, Danjuma Issa, blamed the government for the incessant bombing in the state, saying the attention of security operatives had been on commercial cyclists while motorists carried explosives around.
Issa said they had been inundated with calls from families of their dead members over the whereabouts of their loved ones.
“It was an unfortunate incident and more so that it affected our members mostly. You see that we are few here today. We are still mourning as we are still taking stock of the dead among us.
“Some of our members could not work yesterday because of the unfortunate incident. It’s most unfortunate. Some of our members are not here and we don’t know what must have happened to them.
“Families of some of our members have been trooping to various hospitals in search of their loved ones. Some of the victims, you cannot even identify because they were burnt beyond recognition.
“I have been bombarded with calls from my family members. They are scared since they learnt of the incident.”
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