Kobojunkie:

Didn't the initial claim that it was from Iran on it's way out to palestine or was it Israel, come from the SSS?

na2day!:

The real question is why Nigeria? Why?  

Kobojunkie:

Didn't the initial claim that it was from Iran on it's way out to palestine or was it Israel, come from the SSS? Or who made all that up?

Kobojunkie:

Didn't the initial claim that it was from Iran on it's way out to palestine or was it Israel, come from the SSS? Or who made all that up?

na2day!:

Maybe they were trying to deflect the heat from some VIPs involved, uno naija naa!

alj harem:

gbam
this ppl are just lying to us

na2day!:

The State Security Service on Wednesday [b]insisted [/b]that the intercepted arms at Apapa Port in Lagos were meant for Nigeria and not Israel.


The SSS Assistant Director, Public Relations, Marilyn Ogar, disclosed this in Abuja during a press conference.




According to Ogar, the bill of lading which listed the cargo as building materials had Nigeria as destination.


She also said that the SSS had arrested the consignee and the clearing agent whose identities she did not disclose.


The development came just as the SSS said it had arrested the car dealers at Amuwo –Odofin, Lagos from whom the cars used in the Abuja bomb blasts were purchased as part of ongoing investigations into the incident.


Ogar added that the SSS had also arrested the welder who welded the compartment that housed the bombs in the cars at Charles Okah’s residence, Apapa from where they were subsequently moved to Port Harcourt and wired.


She also told journalists that investigators had recovered the purchase receipts for the two cars.


She, however, refused to disclose the number and names of the arrested persons.


She said, “On the intercepted arms at Apapa Port, the service had been monitoring the movement of the illegal cargo before it arrived in the country. The ship that carried the cargo arrived at Tin Can Port on July 10, 2010 with 371 containers out of which 83 were discharged at Frano bonded warehouse, Cele- Ijesha, Lagos. The said ship departed on July 11.


“On October 20, 13 containers out of the 83 were moved from Frano to AP Molar Terminal, Apapa Port, where service personnel requested for 100 per cent inspection of the containers.


The bill of lading read building materials comprising glass-wood and pallets of stones with destination as Nigeria, hence any argument that the cargo came into this country by mistake is false.”


When asked to clarify if the cargo was cleared from the port and taken to the Frano bonded warehouse at Cele-Ijesha, Itire, Lagos, considering the distance between the two locations, Ogar feigned security concern, saying that “I won’t answer that question; investigation is still continuing and we are uncovering a lot of things.”


Ogar also denied that the SSS was trying the suspects secretly, pointing out that the court had granted the accused persons access to their lawyers, saying they had contacted family members in that respect.


She further said that the service had been procedural in the prosecution of the suspects.


She explained that the perpetrators of the Warri bombings of March 15, 2010 had been arrested, stressing that they were the same people used by a former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, Mr. Henry Okah, to execute the October 1 bombings.


Ogar claimed that Henry Okah came from South Africa for the Warri bombings, purchased the cars which were then moved to the welder and later to the house of one of the suspects on March 13 where he personally wired the bombs.


“Subsequently, on March 14, Okah departed the country, apparently to create an alibi for himself over the bombings that eventually took place the next day,” she added.

koruji:

It was Israel itself that made the claim.
There is no "gbam" to that question in terms of SSS lying - we don't know at this point, and they didn't not make the initial claim.

na2day!:

. . .
Focus of the Force

The Quds force has four main areas of interest:
Hezbollah operations in Lebanon Nigeria
Iraqi Kurdistan
Kashmir, the Balouch and Afghanistan
And most recently Yemen
. . .

na2day!:

Iran is a closed state, there is no way in hell that kind of firepower will leave Iran without state sanction and i strongly suspect Quds force at work here, i don't know why we've not recalled our ambassador by now and kick their own out? Gaddafi said we should split and the country wanted to recall our ambassador, some one shipped a serious military hardware into the hands of non state actors and we are grinning like an id.iot! 

Kobojunkie:

According to the french company, that cargo has been held since July of this year. How did Ghaddafi come in to this? I am confused.

na2day!:

Just making an allusion to the fact that the politicians were ready to recall the ambassador to Libya because Ghaddafi put his foot in his mouth by calling for Nigeria's breakup and they are pussyfooting in recalling the ambassador to Iran wit all these allegations! Who is more dangeous: Ghaddafi or Ahmedinajad?

Kobojunkie:


The man has been putting his foot in his mouth for a long time now, all of a sudden, we want to consider him a threat? A threat to what exactly? He is no more a threat than our own leaders have been, and continue to be to our existence as a nation and a people. 

na2day!:

You can tell our elected Reps and Senators that! they were calling for his head when he made that statement! i havent heard a peep from them since the weapons were discovered, is it that they are dumb or what? 
Maybe they just don't understand that Nigeria is at war, the war happening on the world stage is gradually creeping into our backyard!

Kobojunkie:

What war would that be?

na2day!:

My sis, u're pretending as if u dont know?
I'm talking about the Pandora's box that was opened by Bush et al
Islamic extremism that wants to return the whole world back to the stone age!
We've had a taste of it inform of the Boko Haram's uprising and if d Govt. does not move fast?
May God help us!

Kobojunkie:

OH Boy!
I am not in any way pretending  . . .  I just do not share the view of yours that Nigeria is somehow to be involved in this in anyway. We have GREATER issues to tackle right there in our own backyard. No need to seek relevance by trying to inject ourselves into battles, out there, that have little or nothing to do with us.  Contrary to the view held by some in the south, Northerners are not out there looking for ways to inject themselves into these battles. Most of that reasoning comes from panic ridden people, mostly in the south, who are looking for yet another reason to ignore the most pressing issues right in front of us, so they can have yet another thing to blame the north for.  

If you look closely at the many riots up in the north, you quickly realize it has little to do with religion but more to do with poverty and anger. Boko Haram is a tiny sect and we should not now make them out into some significant force out there actually threatening our democracy in anyway. The North is already in the hands of sharia and even that has yet to help them keep things together.  We have worse situations to deal with as a nation – we have been held as slaves in our own democracy for well over a decade now. When do we get around to fighting that battle?  

na2day!:

Its true that we have developmental issues to sort our here! but neglecting a considerable cache of arms smuggled into the country (God only knows how many slipped through) is tantamount to behaving like an ostrich burying its head in d sand. We really don't know, which group the weapons is going to, but i can assure you its not for the Christians

na2day!:

@ Northerners are not out there looking for ways to inject themselves into these battles
i can assure u many youth had already injected themselves and not only northerners alone (even youths from the west!)

na2day!:

Around 2002 in Lagos, a friend, who is a muslim was approached by some group to follow them on a Jihad in Afghanistan which was being sponsored by a popular Islamic group in Nigeria, he wanted to go but was ambushed by his mother, that was in Lagos o!

na2day!:

Many of those youths have gone, some of them are back and these people are not like you and me again.
They exist all over the place, its not until another Muttallab blow up something b4 we realize that whether we like it or not, there is a war on!

Kobojunkie:

Arms smuggled into your country means the country now needs to inject itself into a war that has nothing to do with it? Give me a break!
I hate to inform you that to date, only one Nigerian has actually been directly linked to Alquaeeda attack. No other Nigerian has been directly linked, not even that boys father to the same. I think we need to, in our paranoia, be sure to understand that once we cross the link between what is real and what is made up, we are likely to keep falling and may never recover in time. It is 2010 and to date, we have yet to hear of the many other Nigerian muslims who you claim were probably approached by the same group to Jihad in the same Afghanistan. The only Nigerian that has been able to get Nigeria on the list of terrorist countries happens to be a depressed Nigerian brat whose father gave him all and raised him abroad. No one else has appeared on that direct list.
Oh wow!!! Where is the record to show this?

na2day!:

Don't get me wrong all i'm saying is dat Iran ought to be penalized for the arms importation and also for giving asylum to the prime suspect in their embassy
@ be sure to understand that once we cross the link between what is real and what is made up, we are likely to keep falling and may never recover in time
The story i just narrated is very real, because u didnt read anything from the newspaper doesn't remove the realness! u want evidence, come back to nigeria and start mixing with some of these radicalized youth, u'll understand what i'm saying. A year ago if someone says that a Nigerian can attempt to blow a plane, of course u'll say " oh dats ridiculous, nigerians love life, they dont want to die" but the reality is different!
I'm sure the Nitros in the imported explosives wasnt for farmers to be used as fertilizers!

Kobojunkie:

I have myself read many such stories from the Nigerian papers Tabloids but at the end of the day, it is all talk and nothing more. If Nigerians are actually going out to fight in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, do you seriously believe that the outside world would not have heard of them by now? We read a lot of trash from our papers and most of them end up being just that, all fluff and next to no substance. Most of those who make these stories do so to seek relevance of some kind. 

By the way, I was not surprised in anyway by the muttallab fellow. Considering his mental state, there is no surprise there. I understand where he probably got to and why he would pursue such a goal, now that in no way is typical of Nigerians. When you want to talk of Nigerians going out on suicide missions, then you are speaking  of something entirely different because the average Nigerian is not a muttallab. The average Northerner is nowhere close to being a muttallab. The boy was not in any way your typical Nigerian and so this is not really about Nigerians in any way. You make a mistake when you try to paint many more of our youths with the muttallab brush. Mutallab had serious psychological issues(please note that this does not mean he was coo coo in the head or any thing of the sort) that drove him to do what he did.

na2day!:

What i just wrote wasn't a story from the newspaper! its as real as u're typing, i hope u know dat they don't carry passport on such journey, many had to travel thru north africa and sh.it to get there, some of those youths still have unmarked graves in afghan badlands!
and Muttalab is not a norm, but there are still many more like him.
The paramount issue is dat we have a serious problem on our hands
WHO ARE THOSE WEAPONS MEANT FOR?