Two Imams and five other members of the Muslim community in
Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State, were arrested by soldiers over alleged
suspected bombs.
According to the former Abia State Amirul-haj and deputy
chairman of the Muslim community in Aba, Alhaji Musa Iheakaram, the soldiers,
who he said, came in seven Hilux vans stormed the Aba Central Mosque on Mosque
Street at about 2.00 am in search of bombs alleged to have been brought into
the mosque.
The soldiers, who came from yet-to-be-identified army barracks,
Iheakaram stated, also raided the onions market at Uratta, a suburb of Aba, and
after searching, picked up its chairman and the Secretary, Alhaji Ibrahim Bargi
and Alhaji Sanni Jos respectively as well as Alhaji Inuwa Issa, chairman of Yam
market, Ariaria Junction .
According to the former Amirul-haj, the soldiers also
arrested the chairman of the Moslem community on Ikot Ekpene Road, simply known
as Alhaji Issa Intersoft.
“They didn’t end at the Aba Central Mosque. Another information
reaching me now is that they equally went to the onions market at Uratta
market, searched everywhere in the mosque; they didn’t see that Imam. They took
the phones of our brothers that were in that market at about 3a.m. after they
left Aba Central Mosque and went away with the chairman of the onion market and
his secretary.
“We also learnt that they went to the yam market, where they
equally searched and were unable to get anything. They however, went away with
the chairman of the yam sellers. The Sarki of Ogbor Hill was also picked by the
soldiers when they carried out a similar operation in that zone.”
Iheakaram alleged that during the raid on the Central
Mosque, the soldiers left with some bags containing chemicals used by students
of the school within the Mosque for their practical studies.
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