Suspected suicide bomber arrested at Lagos airport

 Pandemonium broke out Monday at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos, following the arrest of a physically challenged man suspected to be Boko Haram suicide bomber at CENTREX, an annex office of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA). An eye witness told journalists that the suspected bomber was about to gain entrance to the annex when he was accosted and subsequently arrested by private security guards at the agency. He added that the suspicious movement of the suspect drew the attention of the security guards. He said the physically challenged man was found with an item suspected to be Improvised Explosive Device (IED) strapped around his waist and that immediately he was arrested, the police were contacted. They dispatched men from the Anti-Bomb Squad (ABS) of the command to the scene. The suspect, he said, was handed over to the police, who according to him, defused the device and whisked the suspected bomber to the Airport Police Command Headquarter at Beesam, where he was undergoing interrogation. The eye witness also disclosed that before handing him over to the airport police, he was taken to the agency’s headquarters, where onlookers asked the suspected bomber to hang the materials suspected to be IED on his neck while they took shots of him. Though none of the policemen was ready to speak on the issue, a police source told The Guardian that the suspect was in the interrogation room and that he denied that the substance he was carrying was a bomb.

Guardian Newspaper