On 10th of August, 2013, the leadership of International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law raised an alarm over fears that the Chairman of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Kano State, Northwest Nigeria, Mr. Tobias Idika, might be killed by a death squad believed to have been hired by the host State Government. Mr. Idika cried out in a letter to the Inspector General of Police. The death threat was as a result of refusal of his leadership to mangle the figures of those killed in the July 29, 2013 deadly bomb attacks targeted at the Nigerian citizens of the Southeast extraction resident in Sabon Gari area of Kano State. Fifty Nigerian citizens mostly of Southeast Igbo extraction died in the deadly blasts. In the earlier blasts that shook the entire Sabon Gari area of Kano State on March 18, 2013, targeted at the New Road Luxury Bus Park, 2013, close to 185 Nigerian citizens mostly of Igbo Southeast Nigerians were massacred. The Kano State Government and its security agencies mangled and brought down the respective figures to 12 and 22........
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