Abuja bomb blasts: FG warns residents to avoid explosion sites

Following the explosions at Nyanya and Emab Plaza in Abuja, which consumed lives and property worth millions of naira, the Federal Government yesterday warned Nigerians to avoid accident scenes.

Speaking at the ‘After Action Review’  meeting of stakeholders that responded to the two bomb explosions in Abuja, the Director General of  the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Mohammad Sidi, recalled that the incidents caused loss of lives and destruction of property.

“The impact of these incidents on our psyche cannot be quantified. It has made us to live in constant fear and apprehension on where it is likely to happen again,” he said.

Sidi observed that terrorism was a global phenomenon and Nigeria had had its fair share of it. He, however, urged the citizens to either collectively fight it or allow it to destroy the country as it had done in other parts of the world.

“As a developing country, our quest for development and nationhood can only be achieved in an atmosphere of peace and respect for human dignity,” he said.

The director general used the occasion to commiserate with those affected by the blasts and prayed God to grant the dead eternal rest.