A team of foreign observers under the aegis of the Pan African Women Project International Observers Wednesday raised the alarm over ‘classified information’ of a planned bomb attack of a mosque and market in Kano.
The observers said they received emails from a source they did not make public, that the public places were penciled for the attacks ahead of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections.
Publicity Secretary of the group, Ms. Mphoeue Keitseng, who hails from Botswana, said this at a joint press conference with their local partners in Kano.
The group also noted that from their interactions with stakeholders across Nigeria, they observed that the late release of funds to the Independent National Electoral Commission played a substantial role in events which led to the postponement of the elections.
Keitseng said, “Following our consultations with various stakeholders with regard to the recent postponement of Nigeria’s 2019 elections, the following are our observations:
“We have observed that the Nigerian government did not release funds to INEC on time, which resulted in supplies not being made for the production of materials for the elections. For instance, many observer groups up till now are yet to receive their accreditation tags, jackets and caps.
“Secondly, the state (Kano) as you see today is generally quiet, but there is classified information that reached us this evening.
“Please, note a planned bomb explosion in some sensitive locations in Kano by political thugs. These include: a general mosque and a popular market.
“We use this medium to speak to the Nigerian government to beef up security in all public areas such as mosques, churches and markets.”
Asked if the group has shared the security information with relevant Nigerian security agencies, the Head of the Mission, a Nigerian, Dr. Uben Udensi, said, “We just came into Kano, we intend to do so.”
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