THE Senate has described the bomb on a motor park in Kano, on Monday, in which scores of people were killed as a manifestation of plans by some people to destabilise the country.
Some senators also noted, with mixed feelings, the alleged indifference of Kano State Government to the incident which left several other people injured.
Raising the matter through a point of order at the plenary, Senator Uche Chukwumerije said it was sad that more than 24 hours after the attack, the Kano State government had neither issued an official statement condemning the incident nor send any condolence message to the families of the victims.
Stating that the latest bomb attack was ethnic and religious motivated, he said Kano State government, by its apparent indifference, had lost the opportunity to isolate terrorists as a tiny part of the mainstream of the society.
Chukwumerije said 80 per cent of victims of the attack were Igbo, adding that the remaining 20 per cent were also southerners who came from different ethnic groups.
He said families of the victims had rejected mass burial for their departed relatives and demanded that their corpses be released to them for quiet and private burial.
He said the issue of insecurity was threatening the national unity, advising the Federal Government to double its efforts at tackling the menace of terrorism, which he said needed to be effectively tackled with a sense of discipline.

Source: http://www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/7831-kano-bombing-ploy-to-break-up-nigeria-senate-jni-igbo-oppose-mass-burial

Kano State Governor is so afraid of Boko boys and wouldn't want to be seen condemning their action in any form.

Na this kind thing go make OBJ declare state of emergency in Kano State and after six months, the Governor and the House go dey beg OBJ not to renew it with a promise to keep their Boko boys in check either by bribing them (amnesty) or coming up with a lasting solution to cure the menace.

As for the issue of mass burial, that is not part of our culture as they were not criminals and shouldn't have been suggested as it signifies inhumanity to all of the families of the deceased.

May their Soul Rest in Peace

smh.....

One Nigeria at its best. Thanks to religion of peace. As far as igbos refused to learn from history, they will continue to die like chickens in the hands of northern oligarchy.