Eight more persons have been confirmed
dead, as hospitals in Kaduna metropolis battle to save lives of victims
of Sunday bomb explosion, the News Agency of Nigeria report.
Five of the victims on admission at the
St. Gerard Hospital were confirmed dead by the Public Relations Officer
of the hospital, Mr Sunday Ali.
He said three of the patients had also
been referred to Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Shika,
leaving only two at the hospital.
He said one of the remaining victims had a successful surgery on Monday night.
Officials of Barau Dikko Specialists
Hospital also confirmed that three of the eight victims on admission at
the hospital had lost their lives .
The figure raised the death toll to 24,
after the 16 confirmed killed on the day of the incident by the State
Emergency Management Agency.
The police, however, claimed that only 11 people were killed in the explosion.
Meanwhile, the victims are still waiting
for the assistance promised them by the acting Governor of the state,
Alhaji Ramalan Yero, during his visit to hospitals where the victims are
receiving treatment.
Relations of some of the victims urged
the state government to take over the payment of the medical bills of
all those affected by the blast.
“Nobody assisted us with anything since their admittance to the hospital,’’ one of the relations, Unguwa Ali, said.
Also, the National Coordinator,
Northern Union Youth Wing, Mr. Jerry Kolo, has said northern leaders
are not doing enough to check the spate of bomb blasts and insecurity in
the North.
In a telephone interview with one of our
correspondent in Ilorin on Tuesday, he condemned the bomb blasts in
Kano, Kaduna, Yobe and some other parts of the North.
He alleged that the Arewa Consultative Forum had not shown enough commitment and sincerity to stop the bombings in the region.
He said the ACF should stop blaming President Goodluck Jonathan for the security and developmental challenges in the region.
Kolo said, “Our leaders in the North
must accept responsibility of getting down to talk to youths. At the
same time, the responsibility of maintaining peace in northern Nigeria
lies in their hands.”
“They have only been doing the talking,
they are not acting. Sincerely, members of the ACF which is the parent
body in the North, have actually not been able to put themselves
together as a body. They are divided among themselves.”
Also, the Chairman and Supreme Head of
the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Worldwide, Most Reverend
Samuel Abidoye, on Tuesday in Kaduna warned that the worsening
insecurity in the northern parts of the country posed serious threat to
the continued corporate existence of Nigeria.
Abidoye who condemned the Easter Sunday
suicide bomb attack in Kaduna, in which over 40 persons lost their
lives, stated that the incessant killings of innocent citizens by
suspected suicide bombers, militant religious sects and groups would
further undermine the peaceful coexistence of Nigerians.
“We condemn in the strongest terms last
Easter Sunday suicide bomb attack on innocent citizens in Kaduna. These
unprovoked and unwarranted attacks on innocent Nigerians are capable of
tearing this country apart, if care is not taken. The relative peace in
the country is being further overstretched by these killings,” he said.
The CSMC spiritual father added, in a
statement in Kaduna, that the much-needed economic growth and
development would continue to elude Nigeria unless the Federal
Government could demonstrate serious commitment to effectively
addressing the worsening problem of insecurity confronting the nation.
PUNCH NEWSPAPER
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