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The Police yesterday placed a reward of N50 million on the alleged Christmas Day bombing mastermind, as pressure intensified on the Force to find Kabiru Umar who dramatically escaped from custody on Sunday.

A public notice issued yesterday in Abuja by the Force Headquarters said Umar (aka Kabiru Sokoto) "has been declared wanted by the Nigeria Police Force in connection with cases of bombing and national disturbances experienced across the northern states of the federation, especially the bombing of a church at Madalla, Niger State, which resulted into wanton destruction of lives and properties."
In a statement, Force Public Relations Officer DCP Olusola Amore said Kabiru Umar hails from Biu, Borno State, and was last known to be residing at Bulletin Quarters, Abaji, FCT. He is aged 28 years, fair in complexion and speaks English, Hausa and Arabic languages fluently.
The Christmas Day bombing at Madalla, claimed by the Boko Haram sect, killed dozens of people, many of them churchgoers.
"Anybody who has useful information that will lead to the arrest of the above named suspect should please report to the nearest police station nationwide and such informant will handsomely be rewarded with the sum of N50 million," Amore added.

The wanted notice came on the day embattled Inspector General of Police Hafiz Ringim was expected to reply to a query issued to him by Police Affairs Minister Caleb Olubolade, asking him to explain within 24 hours how the suspect escaped.
It could not be confirmed yesterday if Ringim, who is due to retire in March, has replied to the query.
Police commissioner Zakari Biu, who was in charge of the operation to investigate Umar, was suspended from the Force on Tuesday and ordered detained on Wednesday. Incidentally both Umar and Zakari Biu hail from the same Biu town of Borno State, but it is not known if the two had known each other.
Kabiru Sokoto was arrested at the Borno Governor's Lodge in Abuja on Saturday after the police were said to have tracked him through his cell phone signals.

He gained entry into the lodge through a friend named Ibrahim, a postgraduate student in the United Kingdom, who was given a room there to stay overnight. The Borno State government said the suspected Boko Haram kingpin might have penetrated the lodge in order to attack Governor Kashim Shettima.
A Flight Lieutenant of the Nigeria Air Force was also arrested along with Kabiru.
But on Sunday, as the police were taking the suspect in a Hilux Van to the Ona of Abaji's palace after a search on his house, a gang of youths reportedly waylaid them and freed Kabiru who was said to be in handcuffs at the time.
The Senate yesterday asked its committee on Police Affairs to investigate circumstances surrounding escape of the suspected Boko Haram follower.
During the plenary session, Senator Paulinus Igwe raised a point of order on the incident, consequent upon which the Senate took the decision to investigate the matter.

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Ringim and other security chiefs are expected to be invited to appear before the committee.
The Senate also held an executive session during which some senators expressed worry on the escape of Kabiru.
Commenting on the incident, chairman of the Senate Committee on Navy, Senator Chris Anyanwu (APGA, Imo), said "what happens when you release people like that is they go away and come back with greater fury, so we expect that they will come back again and more people will die.
"Nigerians are tired of listening to stories from these securities operatives, enough is enough. They must answer all the families that have lost their people in the bombing, I understand these people are part of the people that operated in Niger State."