Latest reports inform that one of the two victims of the bomb blast that happened in Nyanya area of Abuja on 1 May, 2014, Chiamaka Dominic, is dead.
According to Punch report, the late Dominic died barely two weeks after a surgery had was carried out on one of his two legs.
It was gathered that the surgery was sponsored by Women for Change Development Initiative, an NGO owned by the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, which paid the N1.4 million and handed to him an amount of money.
President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to victims of Nyanya bomb blast.
Investigation revealed that Dominic gave up the ghost on Sunday night at University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, where he had been receiving treatment.
The deceased, a driver from Ehime-Mbano Local Government Area in Imo State, before his death, had two children (aged between 3 and 5) and a pregnant wife.
Confirming the passing away of Dominic was one of his relatives, Felix Okwudiri, while attempts to get his wife Ijeoma to comment on his demise was unsuccessful.
“Yes, Chiamaka Dominic is dead; we are on our way to the Hospital but I am yet to get in touch with his wife,” Okwudiri stated.
It would be recalled that the Boko Haram Islamic sect had claimed responsibility for the Nyanya bomb explosion that claimed many lives.
The late Dominic was first admitted at the Accident and Emergency Department of Wuse General Hospital, Abuja, but was transferred to the UATH, Gwagwalada with another victim, Mrs Monica Solomon due to the severe burns and injuries.
Last month, one of the suspects of the Nyanya bomb blast, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, denied knowledge of the terror attack.
Ogwuche, a former soldier, is believed to have planned the dire bombing with 5 of his acquaintances. Shortly after committing the crime, he was said to have escaped from the country to Sudan, where he was arrested by the Sudanese security. He was finally returned to Nigeria to face charges.
According to the spokesperson of the Department of State Security (DSS) Marilyn Ogar, Ogwuche and five other suspects arrested in connection with the blast, denied having any links with the official of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), as it had been alleged by the Australian negotiator Stephen Davis.
Davis had claimed that the Boko Haram insurgents were sponsored by some of the Nigerian politicians and said that their funds were passing through the CBN.
The Boko Haram sect is believed to have killed over 4,000 lives since 2009 and are presently holding no fewer than 276 schoolgirls they kidnapped at the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State on 14 April, 2014.
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