South African prosecutors said yesterday that Henry Okah gave orders to buy the cars used in the October 1 Abuja bombings and rig them with explosives. Okah, the alleged leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) was arrested in Johannesburg on October 2, the day after the twin car bomb blasts, which killed 12 people near the Eagle Square.

“The accused gave instructions to purchase the cars used and load their boots with dynamite,” prosecutor Shaun Abrahams said at Okah’s bail hearing in Johannesburg, reading from an affidavit by the South African police’s lead investigator in the case.

Abrahams said Chima Orlu, the man the Federal Government believe supervised the attacks, contacted Okah by SMS immediately before the blasts and about two hours after.

Orlu, who is wanted in Nigeria, “acted on the instruction of the accused,” Abrahams said. He did not give details of Okah’s alleged exchanges with Orlu, saying the contents are still being investigated. Abrahams also said Okah was in contact by email with some of the nine people arrested in Nigeria after the blasts, and received a forwarded message from one of them that said, “Done, tell them to leave now”, at 4:25 pm, about five and a half hours after the bombings.

According to the affidavit, the explosions took place under the supervision of Chima Orlu, who is said to have acted on the instructions of Mr Okah. Mr Orlu’s telephone records show that he had been in contact with Mr Okah on numerous occasions leading up to October 1. Mr Okah is said to have sent text messages to Mr Orlu on 30 September 2010 at 12h 38:11pm, and on October 1 at 6h 02:39am, 7h 40: 20am, 7h 41:22am and at 7h 41:35 am. Mr Zeeman’s statement stressed that “of greater significance is that Mr Orlu sent an SMS to Mr Okah at precisely 10h 58:59 am on 1 October, 13h 13:01am and 13h 29:59pm on the same day.”

“There are also witness statements which implicate the accused as having been the mastermind behind the attacks,” Abrahams said. He was speaking a day after the magistrate in the case told the prosecution the evidence it had presented in the week-long bail hearing was “vague”.


I can see facts and figures which can not be debated, What does Henry Okah got to say now?
He has been asked to name the close associate of Jonathan that contacted him and uptill now, he has not done so,

Source?

All the dailies have reported same thing

Could this be the beginning of the end of the gunrunner and guerrilla warefare lover?

First of all I am surprised that all the haters of Goodluck and all those who never see anything good in Nigeria have witheld comments on this since morning.

These are facts emerging and I am happy the way investigations are going on, at least it shows that GEJ knew what he was saying when he said it was a sponsored terrorist action and not a militant struggle for the niger delta.

Okah does not love the country neither does he have love for his region as investigations have shown, a gun runner who supplies arms to fuel wars in his region can not be our activist for a better enviroment.

I hope he is really found guilty fairly and summarily executed I believe SA has not abolished executions, and here in Nigeria all those found guilty in as much as complicity of allowing a criminal to sleep in your apartment for one night should be tied to a stake and shot this would serve as a detterent.

Those who lost their lives will never come back no matter what we do but those who did this dont deserve to live.