Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Kaduna State, Rev. John Hayab, has disproved the police on the identity of a man who was arrested on Sunday with explosives at a Winners’ Chapel Parish in Kaduna.
Police had said that the man’s name was Nathaniel Samuel.
But Hayab told Punchng.com that the suspect, when questioned before he was handed over to the police, revealed his name as Mohammed Sani.
He said: “The church was in session when the young man came in, dropped his bag and exited as if he was going to the toilet, but didn’t come back in time. Some church members became suspicious. The church had put security measures in place such that they monitor everything going on in the church and they even have CCTV cameras.
“They discovered that what was in the bag looked like explosives, so they called the police. Let me state clearly that it was not the police that arrested him. It was the church that arrested him and then handed him over to the police.
“The police came to pick him up at the church. At the time he was interrogated at the church, he told the church that his name was Mohammed Sani, but when he was handed over to the police, the police told everyone that his name was Samuel Nathaniel.”
The CAN leader called for more investigation, adding that the mix-up gives credence to claims by the United States that Nigeria remained a terrorist-prone country because of a lack of database.
