Mastermind
of the Christmas day bomb blast that killed about 44 persons and
wounded 75 others at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger
State, in 2011, Kabiru Umar, alias Kabiru Sokoto, was yesterday,
sentenced to life imprisonment by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
Delivering
his judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, said he
was satisfied that the Federal Government, successfully established the
culpability of the convict beyond every reasonable doubt, noting that
Umar had in two earlier separate confessional statements, admitted that
he had prior knowledge of the attack.
Besides,
the court stressed that the accused person, throughout the trial, never
showed any remorse for his actions, describing him as “a pathological
liar with no regards for the truth.”
The court observed that the
convict had in a statement he voluntarily made on January 14, 2012,
shortly after he was arrested, confessed that he was a key member of the
Boko Haram terrorist group.
Justice Adeniyi read a portion of
the said statement where the convict stated thus, “here in Abaji, nobody
knows that I am a Boko Haram member, much so, I have about 500 children
that I teach Quran”, adding that ‘Sokoto’, on page four of his
statement, confessed that under his supervision, “the Madalla church
bombing was carried out by one Bashir Mohammed, Muhktar Kafanchan and
others who I cannot remember their names now.”
Good for him, it would've been better if he's left at the mercy of the family of the bomb victims, am sure they will dismember him in minutes
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