As a result the manhunt for the Boko Haram bombing yesterday, members of the National Assembly from Kaduna State, and some local government chairmen were barred from entering the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Hall where Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa swore-in 23 commissioners and 46 sole administrators of development areas.
It was learnt that the anti-bomb squard of the police stopped the lawmakers from witnessing the occasion.
The lawmakers affected include Hon.Simon Yohanna Arabo, Adams Jagaba Adams, Shehu Garba Sarkin-Noma both representing Kauru, Kagarko/Kachia and Jema’a/Sanga federal constituency.
The female inspector Bintu Ibrahim, who denied them entrance, insisted that order was from above’.
When contacted Inspector Bintu Ibrahim declined to talk, but a police officer who spoke on the condition of anonymity said, “You can’t claim that you are ignorant of bombing and attacks going on. This is a crowded place and anything can happen, we are doing this for the security of all the people that are here.
Meanwhile, the police yesterday denied that 700 bombs were intercepted from suspected members of the militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram or any other group in Abuja.
A national daily (not LEADERSHIP), yesterday reported that soldiers, on routine duty at Lugbe on the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Road in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) had intercepted a truck conveying no fewer than 700 explosives that was escorted by two unarmed policemen.
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