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| Kabiru Sokoto |
The Senate Committee on Police Affairs
yesterday gave a detailed insight into how Kabiru Umar alias (Kabiru
Sokoto), the mastermind of the Christmas Day Madala bombing, escaped
from the custody of the police. He has since been re-arrested though.
The Senate had at its sitting on January
19, mandated its committee on Police Affairs to carry out a full scale
investigation into the activities of Boko Haram and the escape of Kabiru
Sokoto, whose bombing claimed many lives.
According to the report of the committee
read by its Chairman, Sen. Igwe Paulinus Nwagu, it revealed that prior
to Kabiru Kokoto’s arrest on January 14, he (the suspect) had been on
the checklist of police intelligence as one of the principal Boko Haram
members.
“He was reported to have been noticed
within the vicinity of Snake Island in Lagos. He left Lagos sometime on
December 13, 2011 and disappeared from surveillance monitoring until
January 11, 2012 where he was traced to Abaji in the Federal Capital
Territory.
“Police detectives traced him from Abaji to Abuja on the same date and further traced him to Asokoro-Abuja where he was finally apprehended at about 02:40 hours on the January 14, 2012 at the Borno State Governor’s Lodge at Iro Dan Musa Street, Asokoro, Abuja.
“The suspect was subsequently handed
over to the Commissioner of Police Zakari Biu who was in-charge of
terrorist cases, and was thus in-charge of the suspect and expectedly,
the general follow-up for further investigation,” the report stated. This was reported by the LEADERSHIP.
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