Kano: Explosion was not from a gas cylinder but a suicide bomber – School Director

The Director of Winners Excel Triumph Academy, Lennie Ujaja, has responded to the Kano explosion that impacted a part of his school, murdering scores and injuring many of his pupils.

Recall that an explosion had on Tuesday, rocked Sabon Garri area of Kano state leaving atleast nine persons dead and scores injured.

Videos online showed dead bodies littered around and pupils of the school seriously injured with blood stain all over their bodies.

Following the explosion, the police commissioner in the state Sama’ila Dikko had said the explosion was triggered by a gas cylinder and not a bomb as being speculated.

Also backing the claim of the police, NEMA officials at the scene of the incident said it was a gas explosion from a welding shop.

But faulting the claim of the police, Ujaja the school director speaking to Arise News said the explosion was not from a gas cylinder but a suicide bomber.

“It was a suicide a bomber that came. And I want you to pass this information across the way I’m telling you now,” Ujaja said.

“It was not gas explosion. It was a suicide bomber and we saw him. So, that is the fact. But God intervened”.

Confirming the director’s claim, a class teacher said “After our assembly in the morning, I was in the class teaching the students, all of a sudden we heard a sound and on reaching here, we saw the explosion and some dead bodies”.

“We were hearing from the news that the government said it was a gas explosion but from what we saw and the sound we heard, it was an explosion from a bomb blast,” he added.

Diverse controversies have trailed the explosion as the government is still insisting it was gas explosion.