I ALERTED DEFENCE HEADQUARTERS AHEAD NYANYA BLAST, SAYS RIGHTS ACTIVIST

MONDAY’S blast at Nyanya Bus Park in Nasarawa State, which killed scores and left many others wounded, could have been averted had the Defence Headquarters responded appropriately to a security tip-off, an activist with the Rights and Democracy Volunteers, Sani Aliyu, said Tuesday in Abuja.
Aliyu told a roundtable organised by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Foundation to discuss cooperation between civil society organisations and the media on the security challenge in Nigeria that about a week ago, he spotted some young men in town early in the morning with bands on their heads, smoking.
“I immediately went to the military headquarters and reported,” he narrated. “The boys themselves, in vehicles, came to the front of the military headquarters and stood for some time and the military did not do anything.
“Yesterday (Monday), when the bombing happened, I went back to the military headquarters but they told me they couldn’t arrest the boys because they didn’t have the authority to arrest them.”
Source: Guardian