UN Demands CCTV Footage Of Bombed Building.

As investigations proceed on penultimate Friday's bombing of the United Nations building in Abuja, the world body has asked the Federal Government to release the Closed Circuit Television footage of the premises before and during the bombing.

Although the UN and United States officials are largely involved in the probe, official UN sources said on Friday that it was the responsibility of the Nigerian security agencies to provide the details to the UN.

This was against the backdrop of complaints by the UN Nigerian Coordinator, Daouda Toure, that the UN officials were merely reading details of the investigations in the newspapers.

Speaking to a Canadian newspaper during the week, the UN Under Secretary-General, Gregory Starr, who was in Nigeria in company with the Deputy Secretary-General, Asa-Rose Migiro, requested that the Nigerian authorities should release the video images to the UN.

"We did have CCTV cameras up," Starr reportedly said, further raising questions on the extent of cooperation between the UN officials and Nigerian security agencies probing the bomb attack.

It was not clear whether the request had been granted, but UN Deputy spokesperson, Eduardo del Buey, told Empowered Newswire on Thursday afternoon that the UN was awaiting developments on the investigations into the bombing from the Nigerian government and would make formal statements later.


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