AIT Denies Reporting Release Of 2011 Christmas Day Bomber, Kabiru Dikko

Daar Communications, owner of Africa Independent Television (AIT), has denied reporting the release of Kabiru Dikko, the man who masterminded a bomb blast in Niger state in 2011.

Reports went viral that the television station had allegedly reported that the federal government has released Dikko, better known as Kabiru Sokoto.

Reacting to this, AIT in a statement debunked the rumour, tagged it fake report, adding that it was never posted by them.

The statement said, “Our attention has been drawn to the above story on ‘the release of the mastermind of the 2011 bomb blast that occurred in Madalla, Niger state’ purportedly credited to our station AIT,” the management said.

“We hereby emphatically dissociate our organisation from the report. It is indeed fake news. Our station never reported such a news item.”

In 2013, the Abuja federal high court convicted Sokoto and sentenced him to life imprisonment for planning an attack on St. Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger

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