Kaduna Church Bombing Suspect Said His Name Was Mohammed – CAN

By Chuks Ekpeneru

Controversy over the identity of bombing suspect arrested while attempting to blow up a Winners’ Chapel Parish in Kaduna State has deepened with the State Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev. John Hayab saying the suspect gave his name as Mohammed Sani when he was apprehended by the church.

Hayab claimed the statement of the suspect changed after he was handed over to the police.

Hayab in an interview with The PUNCH called for a thorough investigation of the case even as he said that the name of the suspect or his religion should not be an issue but that he should be dealt with as a criminal.

The cleric said, “The church was in session when the young man came in, dropped his bag and exited as if he was going to the toilet, but didn’ t come back in time. Some church members became suspicious. The church had put security measures in place such that they monitor everything going on in the church and they even have CCTV cameras.

“They discovered that what was in the bag looked like explosives, so they called the police. Let me state clearly that it was not the police that arrested him. It was the church that arrested him and then handed him over to the police

“The police came to pick him up at the church. At the time he was interrogated at the church, he told the church that his name was Mohammed Sani, but when he was handed over to the police, the police told everyone that his name was Samuel Nathaniel.”

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