Why Boko Haram Terrorists Detonate Bomb In Abuja

Multiple bomb explosion hit the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), Abuja  last night. the release of prisoners in Kuje prison was reported to be the motive behind Kuje, Nyanya bombing’.

The  Bombing explosions were said to have been carried out by a female suicide bomber who attempted hitting the Kuje police station at about 9:51pm and a second blast from a suicide bomber on a motorcycle who detonated explosives in front of the Kuje market, killing dozens of people 15 minutes later while the last was detonated at the Nyanya  near Abuja .

According to the reports, the target of the bombing was the freeing of some Boko Haram prisoners that were incarcerated at the Kuje prisons, alluding to the fact that the Nyanya bombing which occurred was meant to be a decoy.

Kuje Bombing was said to have shaken several buildings and sent many residents scampering for cover and several people reported dead.

Police told the BBC that 15 people died in a multiple bomb blasts in Abuja yesterday night. 13 died in Kuje, two in Nyanya. 

The residents said more that twenty (20) people died and many other wounded.

The Nigeria's "National Emergency Management Agency", NEMA  has deployed its rescue teams in the evacuation of the victims to various hospitals. 

According to NEMA: The explosions which occured almost simultaneously have resulted in a number of deaths and injuries but the rescue operations coordinated by NEMA is still ongoing,” NEMA Press Officer Manzo Ezekiel said in a terse statement.