Eyewitnesses have told police investigators that the men who dropped off the bomb laden vehicle at Nyanya motor park were dressed in military uniforms. Reportedly after they dropped off the car that caused the explosion early Monday morning, they got in another car and left.
Salisu Mukhtar, head of logistics with Isiyaka Nagode Enterprises disclosed to Punch, “Somebody that slept there told us he was there when two men in Army uniforms entered and parked a car there.
“Two of them came in two cars. They parked the car and left in the other car around 2am. The person that saw them could not challenge them because they were in military uniform. They left in the second car.
“When he woke up around 5am, he still found the car there. Because he was disturbed, he sent one of his boys to our office but we had not come by then. The bomb exploded when the boy he sent was returning and he died in the bomb blast.”
“They (police) quizzed us about the incident but we told them we were not there when the thing happened.”
However the army has debunked the eyewitness reports as false, saying it was just another attempt to tarnish its image.
Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen Laleye Olajide, said, “Why did they not say so in the beginning when the explosion occurred if it was true?
“Why did they not say it at the time. This thing happened how many days ago, it happened since Monday and I have not read it anywhere. People said they even recovered the bodies of the bombers, they did not say the bodies were recovered with military uniform.
“Why are people just out to destroy the image of the Army? This is falsehood, it is not true. It is just another attempt to destroy the image of the Army.”