Abba Saidu, one of the victims of the IED explosion that occurred at the Almajiri Tsangaya Modern School at Kuchibuyi community, located on the outskirts of Kubwa town, in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has been arrested.
According to the Daily Trust, Saidu was arrested by police detectives at the hospital shortly after discharge.
Two people, Harisu Lawan and Majid Ibrahim, d!ed from the explosion which happened on January 6, 2025.
While one of the injured persons, Fauziyya Ilyasu, was treated at the Kubwa General Hospital and discharged within the week, Saidu was referred to the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital in Gwagwalada due to the severity of his injuries.
He was said to have spent about one week on admission there.
Speaking with the publication by phone on Sunday, an elder brother of the victim, Salisu Dungu, said throughout the victim’s admission to the hospital, the police kept vigil on him.
“I stayed with him for some days before inviting one of my brothers from our village in Katsina State, named Nura, to come and look after him, and reported back to my place of work,” he said.
“The boy called me later to inform me that the police had detained him at their office in Life-Camp and thereafter took him to the command’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
He would be in detention for exactly two weeks by Monday, February 3.
He said based on the information he received from the victim while on admission, the exploded device was discovered by one of the late victims, named Harisu Lawan, from a nearby farm in the community where they went to scavenge for sweet potatoes.
Also speaking, Iliya Shuaibu, the father of the other discharged victim, Fauziya Iliya, expressed worries about the police action, lamenting that the school proprietor, Adamu Hashimu, had since been in their custody following his arrest on the date of the incident.
Although a police source at Kubwa confirmed the arrest, the FCT Police Public Relations Officers (PPRO) could not be reached on the phone for comments.
