The Golf car used by the Nyanya suicide bombers to trigger the devastating explosion which rocked Abuja Monday has a Lagos number plate security officials revealed on Tuesday.
The Federal Road Safety Commission stated that the number plate is XQ 229LSD, releasing the identity of the owner to relevant security operatives.
Some detectives were said to have been sent to Lagos to track down the owner, who did not provide enough data while registering the car, according to sources.
A source, who spoke in confidence, said: “We have got the first clue through the FRSC, which has given us the name of the owner of the number plate purportedly found on the Golf car which was used for the blast.
“The plate is the old number which the FRSC was trying to phase out. But some vital data (like the telephone number of the person) were not in the old system. It is left to investigators to work more on the lead to unravel the whereabouts of the owner.
“Some investigators are going to Lagos to dig into this aspect of the blast.”
The identification of the number plate came from the old registration data system which the FRSC is trying to replace because of some deficiencies.
While the search for the number plate owner continues, President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered Service Chiefs to fish out the perpetrators of the dastardly act in which scores of people most of them artisans and junior government workers, died.