The Kano State Police commissioner, CP Salman Dogo, has introduced that the principal suspect of the deliberate terrorist assault to which the drive issued an intelligence report barring all public gatherings within the state has escaped to Cameroon.
He acknowledged this at a particular press convention on Monday in Kano, explaining that the suspect got here from Chad and had killed eight individuals there.
The Commissioner additional acknowledged that the police acted on the intelligence report despatched to them and swiftly used the anti-bomb squad to comb all the venue of the Tijjaniyya Sufi Order Maulud on the Kofar Mata Stadium in Kano metropolis.
He defined that the terrorists deliberate to use the chance of the gathering to launch an assault within the state however needed to go away the state following the announcement of the police motion in opposition to the plot.
On the allegation that the intelligence report was politically motivated, the CP mentioned that he and his grandparents are all members of the Tijjaniyya Sufi Order and wouldn’t use egocentric motives to cease the occasion.
„In Kano, all the things is politicised, and even the meals you eat is politicised. They put politics in it.
„I’m a Tijjaniyya, and my dad and mom and grandparents are all Tijjaniyya. There isn’t any means I can use any egocentric motive to cease the gathering.
„We, together with the DSS, obtained an intelligence report that the terrorists are planning to make use of the Tijjaniyya Maulud occasion to launch an assault.
„We needed to swing to motion to flush out these within the stadium to comb all the space the place we discovered IED and subtle it.
„These concerned within the plan to launch the terrorist assault within the state have fled, and the individual that hosted them was arrested.
„The principal terrorist, who led the group from Chad, has escaped to Cameroon. There, too, in Chad, he had killed eight individuals,“ he acknowledged.
