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Bomb blast at motor park in Kano

Posted on 26th January, 2012 Back to news home

Kano State governor Rabiu Kwankwaso.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bomb blast at motor park in Kano
Dan Azumi Lere, Kano

Another explosive device has gone off at the Sabon Gari New Road Motor Park causing a stampede within and outside the Area.

An eye witness says a soft drink Can kept in between two Luxurious Buses companies, named Gobison and Ezenwanta Transport services exploded and a result of which the windows of one the Buses was destroyed.

The police Public Relation Officer, Kano Police command ASP Magaji Majiya confirmed the incident, and the Police commissioner has since dispatched Bomb detectives to the scene.

At the moment, Mobile Policemen have surrounded the Area, and investigations are ongoing.

Meanwhile, the Christian Association of Nigeria, Kano state chapter has called on both Christians and Muslims in the country to pray for a serious Divine Intervention over the incessant attacks of the Boko Haram sect.

The state chairman of the Association, Bishop Ransome Bello addressing a joint pressmen conference said running out of Kano would not solve the present predicament facing the country, but with prayers all things were possible.

Bishop Ransom Bello says the recent attack of by the Boko Haram which claimed hundreds of lives affected both the Christians and Muslims.

The association appealed to the non-indigenes (Christians and Muslims) not to flee the state.

Bishop Ransom stated that the God who created all human beings can change whoever deviates from the rightful way.

He stress that they have received tremendous support from Muslims in the state who have continue to assure them that they were not part of this dastardly act.

However, the CAN in Kano has called on both the religious and traditional rulers to use their positions to dialogue with the Boko Haram, because they were not spirits nor special creatures, saying that  they were eating , drinking and living within them, so they were visible like any other person.

Bishop Bello who called on State government to look into the advice given by members of Nigeria Inter Religious Council (NIREC) on the need to establish the state and local government of NIREC, saying this would go along way in addressing this type of crisis.

In his contribution, the secretary CAN, Kano, Apostle Isaac Bello, urged all to embrace peace as no tangible development could take place, in any society characterized by chaos and anarchy.

 

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