(http://peoplesdailyng.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/THISDAY-bomber-denies-membership-of-Boko-Haram.jpg) (http://peoplesdailyng.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/THISDAY-bomber-denies-membership-of-Boko-Haram.jpg)By Sunday Ejike Benjamin
I am not a member of Boko Haram sect, I am only an aggrieved Muslim on a revenge mission on THISDAY newspaper for insulting Prophet Mohammed (SAW)," a terror suspect, Mustapha Umar, accused of last year's bombing of the offices of some newspapers in Kaduna, said in his evidence to the Police during investigation.
Umar stated in a video recording of his interrogation with a Police officer and a prosecution witness who took his statement after his arrest that, "about the time the beauty pageant was conducted and THISDAY newspaper insulted Prophet Mohammed (SAW), by drawing a picture in the likeness of the Prophet of Allah, I started nursing the feeling of avenging."
"There is a tradition that whosoever insults the Prophet of Allah must be killed. "My intention was to eliminate them so as to stop them from working again. "He, who insults the Prophet of God is not supposed to exist", the suspect stated while under interrogation which was recorded.
From the VCD which was played in the court at the resumed hearing of the matter yesterday, Umar spoke in Hausa language and the video recording of the interview was translated by the official interpreter of the court, Murtala Abdullahi.
The suspect also said that as a Muslim, he will always avenge on anybody who insults the Prophet of God and mentioned one Alhaji as the bomber of the Abuja office of THISDAY newspaper. The VCD and the hard copy of the interpreted transcription of the interview were marked as Exhibits MU22 (a & b) by the court.
The prosecution at the end of the testimony of the 10th prosecution witness, closed its case and the court adjourned the matter to June 24, 2013 for the defense counsel to open his defense for the accused person.
Meanwhile, the defense council, Nureini Suleiman, told the court that he will file an application for a no case submission in the criminal charge preferred against the accused person. The Court sitting before Justice Ademola Adeniyi gave him one week within which to file the application. Umar however pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge preferred against him.
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