Nigeria: Bomb Blasts: Relief for Victims Still in Doubt

23 January 2003

Lagos — Hopes of intervention by the Nigerian Army for victims of the January 27, 2002, Ikeja Military Cantonment bomb blasts faced with ejection from the Ikeja Police College, dimmed further with a quit notice served on them.

The Army, which denied any relationship with the 73 victims squatting at the college, where they were relocated by the state government after the blast describing them as constituting a nuisance after the police ordered them to quit.

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