By Adoyi M. Aba
Abuja
While Blueprint gathered that diplomatic paperwork is being concluded to repatriate the co-mastermind of the Nyannya Motor Park bombing in which scores of citizens died and hundreds wounded, Abubakar Sadiq Ogwuche, the federal government yesterday said it had arrested his father, Col. Agene Ogwuche (rtd).
Spokesperson for the Department of State Security Services (DSS), Marilyn Ogar, disclosed this at a press briefing by the National Information Centre at the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Abuja.
She said Pa Ogwuche was arrested “because he breached the bond, which he signed while taking his son’s bail in 2012.”
Sadiq Ogwuche had been arrested on November 12, 2011, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on arrival from the UK on terrorism-related charges, but was released on October 15, 2012, following intense pressure from human rights activists, who alleged human rights violation.
In his contribution, the spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force, Frank Mba, said Sadiq’s father would be made to answer for his inability to meet the bail bond which he signed pledging to produce his son when needed for questioning.
Also, the Director-General of NOA, Mr. Mike Omeri, again gave the assurance that the over 200 Chibok Government Secondary School girls still in the custody of Boko Haram terrorists would “soon be brought back home to rejoin their families.”
Asked when they would be rescued, Omeri said “Nigeria is currently working with members of the international community to ensure that the girls are rescued in good shape and the right frame of mind.”
Omeri commended members of the Kalabalge community in Borno state who repelled an attack by the Boko Haram insurgents, killing scores of the invaders, and arrested several of them.
He added that “this shows that citizens are brazing up to the antics of the marauders, urging other communities to “emulate the example.”