It was disbelief and shock as a Federal High Court in Abuja dismissed the two- count terrorism charges against the suspected mastermind of the bombing of the Nyanya Motor Part in Abuja, Aminu Ogwuche.
Ogwuche was repatriated from Sudan, where he fled to after the bombing of the park, in which no fewer than 75 persons died.
Nigerians have condemned the release, with dome blaming the judiciary while others said the executive has a hand in his release.
Ogwuche is a British born Nigerian army deserter associated with the Boko Haram terror group. He is the son of a retired Nigerian Army colonel and an indigene of Orokam, Ogbadibo LGA, Benue State, Nigeria. According to the Department of State Security, Ogwuche served in the Intelligence Unit of the Nigerian Army at Child Avenue, Arakan Barracks, Lagos, between 2001 and 2006 with service Number 95/104 and is reported to have deserted in 2006.[1]
Ogwuche is a student of Arabic Language at the International University of Africa, Sudan and studied for a degree in Business Science at the University of Glamorgan between 2007 and 2010 but failed to finish the course and was not awarded a degree.
He was first arrested in Nigeria in 2011 but released in 2012 and was arrested by Interpol in Sudan on an international warrant in connection with the April 2014 Abuja bombing in the suburb of Nyanya, which killed 75 people on 14 April 2014 and the May 2014 Abuja bombing which killed 19 people on 1 May 2014.
Ogwuche is also wanted in connection with the Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping. Ogwuche, served in the intelligence unit of the Nigerian Army between 2001 and 2006.
Below are some of the reactions of Nigerians on social media :
“This is the hand work of the executive, they will sentence solders fighting Boko Haram to death but set Boko Haram that Sudan help us to catch free. Nigeria!!! DSS have all intelligence report except about the whereabout of the terrorists. Hmmmm.
“Power should not be given to those that will make dangerous use of it” Maggie Thatcher.
Movic: Ogwuche is one of those snipers/bomber he was released Under jonathan’s order to complete his mission.
The truth: They would tell you this is the beauty of democracy. How can this killer be set free. The judiciary is another failure in Nigeria, a system where the highest payer gets the ruling. The judiciary is the problem of our total system collapse. There’s no way a cult member will jail a fellow cult member when they are same partners in crime. 90% of our Legal practitioners are members of one cult or another. This is why justice is not served when criminals are caught, except in a case where the fellow is not a member or can not respond to signs given by the judge during proceeding. GEJ is not our problem and can not fix it all in one
MR K: Nigeria is like a ticking bomb waiting to explode because everything that has a beginning has and end. The day of reckoning is fast approaching
God Bless Nigeria.
Simm Chuck: Judiciary is among the executive arms of government in which the president is the general overseer in the executive arms of the government. so if anything should go wrong there, the president will be the first to explain to the country what went wrong after the judiciary must have feed back the president office.
Shakur Bakare : Judiciary ought to be courageous and independent, at least to the level of criminalizing their system.