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Suspected Buk Bomber Arrested by Abbaj: 10:57pm On May 21, 2012
By Ibrahim Shuaibu Kano State Police Command on Monday arrested one Augustine Effiong, 25, an indigene of Akwa Ibom State, who is popularly known as Abubakar Garba, as one of the suspects behind last month’s attack on the Bayero University, Kano (BUK) attack. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris said in a press statement made available to reporters on Monday that, Effiong had confessed to be one of those behind the attack on Christian worshipers at BUK. The Commissioner said during the preliminary investigation, the suspect, a resident of Bulunkutu Abuja Quarters in Maiduguri admitted to have relocated to Kano State last April. He also confessed to have participated in a series of attacks, which claimed the lives of both police and military personnel in the state in the wake of attacks launched on Kano early this year. The suspect was born and brought up in Maiduguri before he later converted to Islam and has been transferred to Abuja for further investigations, according to the police. The command said, Effiong was arrested following an attempt to murder a civilian at Danlasan Village in Warawa Local Government Area of Kano State.
Re: Suspected Buk Bomber Arrested by Nobody: 4:21am On May 22, 2012
Abba j: By Ibrahim Shuaibu Kano State Police Command on Monday arrested one Augustine Effiong, 25, an indigene of Akwa Ibom State, who is popularly known as Abubakar Garba, as one of the suspects behind last month’s attack on the Bayero University, Kano (BUK) attack. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris said in a press statement made available to reporters on Monday that, Effiong had confessed to be one of those behind the attack on Christian worshipers at BUK. The Commissioner said during the preliminary investigation, the suspect, a resident of Bulunkutu Abuja Quarters in Maiduguri admitted to have relocated to Kano State last April. He also confessed to have participated in a series of attacks, which claimed the lives of both police and military personnel in the state in the wake of attacks launched on Kano early this year. The suspect was born and brought up in Maiduguri before he later converted to Islam and has been transferred to Abuja for further investigations, according to the police. The command said, Effiong was arrested following an attempt to murder a civilian at Danlasan Village in Warawa Local Government Area of Kano State.


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