The police in Lagos State, western Nigeria, have arrested a young man
identified as Dada Ajibo from Niger Republic for attempted arson.
He was said to have been found under a car parked at a filing station in
Akowonjo with a lighter while attempting to set the car ablaze and cause
explosion in the area.
The incident caused serious commotion in the area Tuesday because the
residents were apprehensive that Ajibo might be a member of terrorist group,
Boko Haram, bombing and killing people in northern Nigeria.
Ajibo was arrested and detained at Gowon Estate Police Division where he is
being interrogated for allegedly attempting to set the filing station ablaze, along
with three other accomplices now at large.
The middle aged man was found under a red Volkswagen Golf car with a razor
blade and lighter beside Oando Filing Station located at 170, Akowonjo road by
Cele bus stop, Akowonjo.
While he was attempting to cut the fuel pipe with the blade under the car, the
residents who suspected him alerted a mobile policeman guarding a nearby
bank who arrested him.
The policeman found on him two Niger Republic passports, a razor blade and a
lighter. This gave rise to suspicion by the residents that he wanted to cause
explosion and destruction in the area.
The manager of the Oando filing Station where the incident happened, Mr Rabiu
Omoniyi, said that the man went under a parked Golf car without the knowledge
of the owner with lighter and a blade, ostensibly to burn the car which could
have set the filing station and other companies around the area ablaze.
The policeman who arrested him said when the suspect attempted to escape,
he threatened to shoot him, which made him to stop running.
He said he alerted the DPO at Gowon Estate who sent his men to take him to
the station.
“He confessed that he was an illegal immigrant from Niger Republic,” the
policeman said.
When P.M.NEWS correspondent visited Gowon Estate Police Division, the DPO
was not around to comment on the matter.
However, a police source comfirmed the arrest and said that the police have
commenced investigation on the matter.
The golf car under which the suspect was found with a razor blade and lighter
The suspect was detained in the cell with his name written on the board as
illegal immigrant.
A human rights activist, Commrade Babatunde Ashafa, said that Lagos
residents should be more vigilant and report any suspicious movement in their
area to the police to forestall any danger.
He said members of the Boko Haram sect have scattered after they were
dislodged in the north and there is possibility that they have entered Lagos,
recalling that 42 members of the sect were arrested recently by soldiers in the
state.
Ashafa also called on the security agencies to collaborate more with the
citizens and human rights groups in the state to ensure that the citizens are
protected.
Source: pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/08/07/man-arrested-for-attempting-to-burn-petrol-station/

Another terrorist is caught.
I have always known some of them are from neighbouring countries.
By now they would be planning another attack in another state.
Wow I can't believe the Nigeria Police impressed me this time.
If you wan commit arson, go back to your country, state, town, father's house, and do it.
GodForsakenSouls.

hmm

Good morning lagosians , Eko orie gbajie