Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika gave a
shocking revelation Monday on the bomb attack at Jaji Cantonment last year
which killed an Army General and several others when he disclosed that the then
Commander, Infantry Corps and Centre, Jaji, General Mohammed Isa had security
report 24 hours earlier of the plot to bomb Jaji but he chose to ignore the
warning.The army boss gave startling information at a briefing at the army
headquarters. His words, “our Intelligence and Military Police departments had
gotten information of a plan by terrorists to attack the Jaji Cantonment and
the intelligence was immediately relayed to General Isa. The same report that
Gen. Isa got was received by the GOC 1 Division on the day before the attack.
“The GOC had to immediately cancel his trip and returned to base.
Isa did not act on the report. Isa did not give instruction to his subordinate.
I was surprised when I saw Isa at the annual COAS Conference and I asked him,
what he was doing in Asaba when his house was on fire”.
The Army Chief disclosed that as a result of the in-action of
General Isa then, the Nigerian Army lost a General in the bomb blast apart from
those who were killed in the military protestant church.
It had also reported that an Air Commodore of the AirForce, who
was the Chief Instructor of the Air Force Wing at AFCSC, was also killed in the
blast.
Lt. Gen. Ihejirika disclosed that the detailed investigations have
commenced to determine whether Maj. Gen Isah’s inaction was due to negligence
or a demonstration of further involvement in the bombings in which several
officers and others were killed.
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