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The first son of the late Alhaji Issa Mobila, Shasu Deen Mobila says he is contemplating suicide bombing to avenge his father�s death. Speaking to XYZ Breakfast Show host Moro Awudu on Tuesday February 19, 2012, Shasu Deen Mobila exploded thus: ��Its very painful to an extent that it hurts a lot�, threatening that: ��If I had the chance I would have even committed suicide bombing�.� Shasu Deen Mobila who is the first of 10 children by his late Father blurted out saying: �If this were to be one of the Arab countries, [its] exactly what I would have [done]�. Seething with intense anger as he spoke on the show, Deen Mobila said: �Just imagine, [you] just come like that, just take away our father and just go and kill him for pleasure, for nothing without any evidence; tell me what was the evidence�, he asked angrily adding that: �All the accusations they made [against] him what was the evidence, there was no evidence; now what, doesn�t the law work with evidence�what is the evidence?� Issa Mobila was the Northern regional chairman of the Convention People�s Party until his death on December 9, 2004. His tortured body was found brutally mutilated. He was battered by Soldiers who tried exacting information from him at the Kamina Barracks in the Northern regional capital Tamale in connection with a purported cache of arms allegedly in his possession. Mobila had been in the custody of the Tamale Police until he was transferred into military custody where he later died. Three soldiers- Corporal Yaw Appiah, Private Seth Goka and Private Modzaka Eric stood trial for Issa Mobila�s death. A fast Track High Court in Accra sentenced the first two soldiers to 10 and 20 years in prison respectively on Monday February 18, 2013 after a seven- member Jury found them guilty of manslaughter. Private Goka was sentenced in absentia. Private Eric Modzaka had earlier been discharged. In the course of the trial, Prosecution witness Detective George Mensah Kpegli at a point told the Court presided over by Justice Habib Logoh that Cpl Appiah�s alleged accomplice, Private Modzaka Eric, used a cane as thick as the size of three fingers put together to flog the deceased. Detective Kpegli said the flogging started after Cpl Appiah had told Mobila that: �Today you will shit blood�. Also a pathologist from the Okomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, Dr. Kofi Adomako Boateng, who is also a lecturer at the Medical School of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) told the Court in the course of the trial that Issa Mobila died of damaged and broken lungs as a result of strenuous torture which resulted from lacerations and abrasions he suffered, thus causing his ribs to fracture and thereby compromising his respiration. Dr. Adomako Boateng observed that Issa Mobila, who was also the Chairman of the Tamale/Bolgatanga branch of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union, bled in the chest, following the abrasions and lacerations he suffered. He noted that even though there was no penetrating wound, the ribs of the deceased around the chest were fractured, which he said: may have been as a result of �standing on the chest�. Issa Mobila surrendered himself to the police in Tamale on December 9, 2004 after his wife had told him the Police had come home to arrest him. Mobila was suspected to have supplied arms to some youth on December 8, 2004 to cause mayhem in Tamale. His arrest and detention was also linked to a shooting incident in the late hours of December 8, 2004, at Werizehi, a suburb of Tamale. The police further impounded a BMW car with registration number GR 2772 Q, belonging to Mobila, and conducted a search on him and his residence, but found nothing incriminating. Mobila was transferred to the Kamina Military Barracks after the Police had had information that an angry mob of his sympathizers had intended storming the Police station to yank him out.