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CAN reveals what suicide bomber said when he was caught at Living Faith Church, Kaduna

The Kaduna State Chapter of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the state’s Police Command are at loggerheads over the different identity and religious faith of the suspected suicide-bomber arrested on Sunday in Living Faith Church, also known as Winners’ Chapel, situated at Sabon Tasha, Chikun Local Council of the state.

While the police command gave the name of the suspect as Nathaniel Tanko and a Christian, the CAN Chairman, Kaduna State Branch, Rev. Joseph John Hayab, raised the alarm that the name given by the same suspect when he was arrested by the church security officials in the afternoon before he was handed over to the police was Mohammed Sani.

In a telephone chat with The Guardian yesterday, Hayab said: “When the suspect was initially arrested before he was handed over to the police, he gave his name as Mohammed Sani but we are not bothered by his religious faith or background other than the fact that a criminal must be treated as a criminal without necessarily looking at his religion or ethnicity.

“We of the Christian faith found the disposition of the police towards religious background of the suspect as a Christian very unfortunate. Why is the police interested in the religion of the suspect and at what point did Mohammed Sani suddenly become Nathaniel Tanko between the noon when he was arrested by the church security officials and the time handed over to the police?”

Hayab added that Kaduna State had just come out of a similar scenario involving the police when a criminal was arrested and instead of a proper background check of the suspect “the police quickly rushed to say he was a pastor until it was proved otherwise.”

Ben Idah

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