The military on Wednesday announced that troops at a checkpoint in Gombe State had arrested the mastermind of the bombing in the Sabon-Gari Local Government Area secretariat, Zaria, Kaduna State, in which 40 persons died.
The Nigeria Union of Teachers said 37 teachers perished in the Tuesday’s explosion while many others, who sustained grievous injuries in the bombing, were in critical conditions in various health centres in the state.
The Military said in a tweet on its official twitter handle on Wednesday that the mastermind of the Jos and Zaria attacks had been arrested by a combined team of troops and operatives of the DSS at a military checkpoint in Gombe State.
“Following an operation by a combined team of military and DSS operatives, troops have arrested a mastermind of the Jos and Zaria bombings at a checkpoint in Gombe.” the tweet read.
The military is however silent on the identity of the suspected mastermind of the bombings.
The Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, confirmed the arrest of the suspected mastermind to one of our correspondents on the telephone on Wednesday.
“It is true that the suspect of the Jos and the Zaria bomb attacks have been arrested at a military checkpoint in Gombe” Olukolade said.
He however declined further comments on the operations that led to the arrest of the three terror suspects.
