"We Were Paid N2,500 To Bomb Yola Barracks" Said The Arrested Kids

There was a bomb attack in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State on Thursday, Mr. Luka Ikpi, the Adamawa sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps told journalists.

That the magnitude of the explosion which extended to the state headquarters of the FRSC made the sector draft its intelligence officers to the scene of the incident which was not the command.

He said, “When I heard the loud bang, I had to run out of my office to inquire what really happened.”

It was gathered from a resident of the state, that the bomb was in possession of four children. The children told the police that an unknown man gave them N2, 500 to carry out the attack.

It was gathered that the Boko Haram insurgent instructed them to drop the explosive at a specific place in Bachure suburb, near the Army Barracks mainly inhabited by retired military personnel.

A police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said two of the kid aged between 9 and 15years messengers who were arrested by the police told interrogators that “an unknown person gave us N2,500 to drop the explosive at the barracks.”

While two of them fled, the other injured two were arrested by the police.