News spread like wildfire hours ago after video of an alleged suicide bomber who died in Afikpo, Ebonyi state made the rounds online.
Kemi Filani News recalls that videos and photos of a man whose upper half was destroyed lying in the pool of his own blood at Amaizu/Amanbgalla primary school, Afikpo made the rounds online.
Internet users claimed that the man tried bombing the school but his weapon went off before he could get to a cluster.
DSP Loveth Odeh, Command’s Public Relation Officer (PPRO) told newsmen on Tuesday in Abakaliki that the pictures were not in connection with a suicide bomber.
“There is no bomb explosion in Ebonyi, but regrettably, this morning, one of our mobile police personnel attached to Afikpo on special duty was wounded by teargas.
“The officer mistakenly hit a teargas hung on his belt, and unfortunately, the device exploded and wounded him and he died.”
On further research, Kemi Filani News gathered that the man who died was Inspector Idi Aminu, attached to 32 PMF Abakaliki but on special duty at Afikpo.
A police officer who was close to the deceased revealed to Kemi Filani News that Inspector Idi Aminu was drunk before leaving the station. According to our source, ‘He even corked his gun and left it in the station before leaving that faithful day. We thank god he did not shoot sporadically into the air”.
The source further revealed that Idi Aminu was out and about looking for a girl he hooked up with to retrieve his phone from her, “He was drunk that day and I heard he left the station in search of a lady he hooked up with who was with his phone. He was visibly angry before leaving the station and he even corked his gun and left it at the station” the source who pleaded anonymity said.
“This is sad. he has a wife and children. His family resides in Abakiliki. We are all shocked. He just died like that” The source added.
However, some social media users still insist the incident was a failed terrorist attack on the community. One Chijindu Njoku took to his Facebook page and wrote, “
To me, what happened yesterday was a terrorist attack foiled by fate—“ọbịara egbu m gbuo onwe ya”. Otherwise, tell me what special duty a lone Muslim police officer from the north like Idiamin was carrying out at a primary school with a grenade. Was the school under siege? If it was, could Idiamin alone have been dispatched to the school to provide security, and why was he resisted by the school authorities who assumingly needed his help? The guys at the school smelt a rat—and that’s the obvious answer.
I make bold to say that if the official terrorist hadn’t been resisted and he found his way to the gathering of the innocent pupils and their teachers before the explosion that killed him went off, by now, the media would have been awash with narratives pushed by the police and government on how the IPOB bombed a primary school—the same way the police commissioner in Lagos shamelessly pushed a concocted plan about how IPOB was about to attack Lagos—and was bravely shut up by well-meaning individuals.
I have often held and still hold the belief that the authorities are hell bent in seeing the Southeast of Nigeria turn out like particularly the north east and north west of the country. The first attempt to this was when on taking office in 2015, the Buhari regime ordered through the then Nigeria Prisons Service, the transfer of held Boko Haram terrorists to the Ekwulobia Prisons —it took a massive outcry before they were evacuated. Since then, they have employed a lot of clandestine moves to actualise their aims.
These elements have their foot soldiers like Idiamin in both the police and the military in the—south east—brainwashed zealots in uniform blinded by religious extremism—they provide cover for gunrunners and killer Fulani herdsmen but forcefully prevent reprisals from the remnants of those killed. But unfortunately, some ignorant folks in the south east are playing the cards they push by hailing those they now call the unknown gunmen. All I can say here is, I pity us.”
