Nyanya Bomb Blast: Trial Of Ogwuche And Five Others

The trial of Amnu Ogwuche and five others, on Tuesday May 19, restarted at Federal High Court in Abuja on the Nyanya bomb blast which occurred on April 14, 2014.   
The bombing, which occurred on April 14, 2014, has been described as one of the single worst bombing to happen on Nigeria soil since the civil war ended.

Alleged Nyanya bomber, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche

The government in a bid to seal the case, presented its star witness, identified as PW-1,  who took his time to detail how undercover operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS) apprehended each of the six accused persons.
The PW-1 revealed that Ogwuche, had flown to Sudan, while his five collaborators scattered themselves to different states in the Northern part of the country.
The five other collaborators names were given as Ahmad Rufai Abubakar (a.k.a Abu Ibrahim/Maiturare), Mohammed Sani Ishaq, Ya’u Saidu (a.k.a Kofar Rama), Anas Isah, Adamu Yusuf and Nasiru Abubakar.

File: DSS Arraigned Nyanya Bombers : Department of State Security yesterday arraigned alleged Master minders of Nyanya Moto Park Bomb Blast on April 14, 2014. They are: Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, Adamu Yusuf, Anas Isah, Yau Saidu Muhammadu Sani Ishaq and Ahmed Rufai Abubakar (a.k.a. Abu Ibrahim/Maiturare) at Federal High Court Abuja.

The accused are charged with committing an offence contrary to sections 1, 2(a), 5, 8, 16 and 17 of the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act of 2013.
Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Mr. M.S. Diri, informed the court yesterday, that they have a roll call of five witnesses and will tender 37 exhibits in the course of the trial.
“The facts of the case are stated in the proof of evidence which has already been served on the accused persons. With the kind permission of the court I wish to call the PW-1. The name of the PW-1 is the first on the list of witnesses before the court”, the DPP added.
Meanwhile, Evidence in Chief, PW-1, told the court that Ahmad Abubakar, the second accused was the first to be apprehended by the DSS.
He said that Abubakar was captured on April 22, 2014, at Sanga Local Government Area in Kaduna State.
According to the PW-1: “ I work with the DSS as an investigator. My lord I know the six accused persons. I came to know them when there was a bomb blast at El-Rufai Park in Nyanya, Abuja, on April 14, 2014.
“I was directed to investigate the bomb blast, where a vehicle was used to detonate an IED . During the course of the investigation, these accused persons were arrested. The first to be arrested was Ahmad Abubakar (2nd accused person). He was arrested on April 22, 2014, at Sanga in Kaduna state.
“The second person we arrested was Muhammadu Sani Ishaq (3rd accused). He was arrested at Jabi in FCT on April 24. The third person that was arrested was Y’au ( 4th accused) on April 29, in Kano state. On May 3, we caught Anas, the 5th accused person in Katsina state and later arrested Adamu (6th accused) in Bauchi on May 5.
“The last person we arrested was Aminu Ogwuche. My Lord he was arrested in Sudan and extradited to Nigeria. He was brought back to this country on July 15. My lord I had known Ogwuche before the other suspects. I got to know him in 2011 when he was deported from the United Kingdom by the British government because of two major reasons. He was then deported because he belonged to a terrorist group that was banned in the UK.”
The Nyanya bomb blast reportedly killed no fewer than 75 people. After Ogwuche was extradited and jailed without charge, he requested for bail on the ground that the constitution was being ignored.