Friday, January 20, 2012

Nigeria: Top cop suspended after mastermind of Christmas church bombing escapes

From Jihad Watch:



Nigeria: Top cop suspended after mastermind of Christmas church bombing escapes

Keystone Kops, Nigerian edition. It will be harder to capture Sokoto a second time. "Top Nigerian cop suspended over suspected sect member escape," fromAgence France-Presse, January 17:
Nigerian authorities on Tuesday suspended a top police officer for alleged negligence in the escape of a suspected member of the Islamist Boko Haram sect arrested over a deadly Christmas bomb attack.
The principal suspect, Kabiru Sokoto, who was arrested on Saturday, was handed over to a police commissioner for further investigation. He was then ordered to be taken to Abaji, near Abuja, for further investigation, police said in a statement.
"In the course of undertaking this important procedure, the policemen on escorts with the suspect were attacked by the suspected sect gang members and in the process the suspect was freed," it said.
"The police view this development as a serious negligence on the part of the commissioner of police and have since queried and suspended him from duty," it added.
The identity of the senior police officer was not disclosed.
He and members of his team will be prosecuted if a criminal case is established against them, it also said.
At least 44 people, mostly worshippers, were killed during the attack on Saint Theresa's Roman Catholic Church in Madalla, outside Abuja, on Christmas Day. Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the attack....

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