{"id":3244,"date":"2014-11-24T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2014-11-24T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T16:08:00","slug":"nyanya-bombing-court-frees-oguche-suspected-mastermind-of-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3244","title":{"rendered":"Nyanya Bombing: Court Frees Oguche, Suspected Mastermind Of Bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/oguche.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3245\" alt=\"oguche\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/oguche-281x300.gif\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A federal court in Abuja has freed Aminu Oguche, the suspected mastermind of the Nyanya bomb attack in Abuja, the News Agency of Nigeria has reported.<\/p>\n<p>The court struck out a two-count terrorism charge against Mr. Ogwuche on Monday, after months of trial for the April 2014 attack which killed more than 70 people.<\/p>\n<p>The court hinged its decision on lack of diligent prosecution by the state.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ogwuche, a suspected Boko Haram member, was accused by the Nigerian government of being behind the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The blast at the Nyanya Motor Park occurred during morning peak hours as residents were hurrying to work.<\/p>\n<p>The government said Mr. Ogwuche fled to Sudan after coordinating the attack.<\/p>\n<p>He was later repatriated to Nigeria to face charges.<\/p>\n<p>Details of Monday\u2019s ruling are sketchy and will be brought in our subsequent updates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court in Abuja has freed Aminu Oguche, the suspected mastermind of the Nyanya bomb attack in Abuja, the News Agency of Nigeria has reported. The court struck out a two-count terrorism charge against Mr. Ogwuche on Monday, after months of trial for the April 2014 attack which killed more than 70 people. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/oguche.gif","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-Qk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3246,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions\/3246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}