Nyanya bomb blast mastermind, Ogwuche, extradited from Sudan

• Let’s negotiate with Boko Haram, says Tambuwal
THE suspected mastermind of the April 14 bomb blast in Nyanya, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, in which about 80 people were killed, Sadiq Ogwuche, has been extradited to Nigeria after being arrested in Sudan a month after the incident.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal yesterday reiterated the call on the Federal Government to negotiate with the Boko Haram insurgents.
The plane, a Nigerian Army Intelligence Deserter, carrying Ogwuche, who was dressed in a blue and white bold check long sleeve shirt and brown carton coloured chinos trousers, touched down in Nigeria at about 3:00pm local time and he was whisked away in a white Toyota bus with tinted glasses, by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS).
Speaking at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, where the “counter-terrorism material cargo” was off-loaded, Director General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mike Omeri, said the effort of the military and security agencies in the country to bring all those involved in terror and all forms of insurgency, will continue to yield results until the situation ends.
He stated that “the Federal Government is making efforts to bring the captured Chibok schoolgirls back and would soon yield the desired results”.
The suspect, who was escorted to an unknown destination by heavily guarded, well-armed military men and other security operatives looked calm, but unkempt as usual. Information on the planned extradition of Ogwuche, who is a deserter from the Nigerian Army, had remained expectedly clandestine, such that at the time of informing journalists of the arrival of the suspected terrorist, the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer said the security operatives were expecting a “special counter-terrorism material, to from cargoed abroad to Nigeria”.
Omeri said the suspect would be prosecuted in accordance with the laws of the country, as would other suspects. He emphasised that the war against terrorism would be total.

Speaking while receiving the #BringBankOurGirls# advocacy group at the national Assembly complex, Tambuwal stressed that there was nothing wrong with the approach so long as it would achieve the desired goal.
According to him: “I have personally come out about two - three days ago in Kano to call for negotiation with Boko Haram even though so many Nigerian leaders feel that we shouldn’t negotiate. I have maintained my position that we should negotiate. If negotiation is what would bring back for example Chibok girls, for goodness sake let’s negotiate.
“After all as we have seen somewhere, Israel and Palestinians are still talking. By negotiating, you are not just submitting. It is a strategy. So let’s get these girls out and then if you want to confront them, confront them and take them head on. But whatever we need to do, we must do as a government to bring our girls out.”
When asked by the Bring Back Our Girls advocates on the latest information on the abducted Chibok girls, the speaker said he knew nothing about the girls in spite his position as the number four citizen of the country.
He cited the enactment of the anti terrorism law, the amendment of the anti money laundering Act, the establishment of the financial intelligence unit Act, the appropriation of adequate funds to security services as well as the amendment of the constitution to allow for first line charge to security agencies as some of the measures put in place by the National Assembly to tackle the security challenges in the polity.
Urging the advocates not to be bothered with those labelling them as a sponsored group to undermine the Jonathan- led administration, he urged them not to relent in their effort to lend their support in the effort by the government to rescue the abducted girls.
Former Minister of Education, Mrs Oby Ezekwesili who led the group, recalled the harassment they have been subjected to in the hand of security agents expressed concern that 92 days after the Chibok girls were abducted, Nigerians were still in the dark on their whereabouts.