‘Intercepted Dynamites Belong to Construction Firm’

16 Jul 2011
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By Ike Abonyi and Senator Iroegbu

The over 700 dynamites, thought to be explosives intercepted by the military on Thursday in Abuja  belongs to an Abuja based construction Company, SCC, THISDAY gathered in Abuja Friday.

The firm is said to be handling some federal government construction works in Bwari and brought the dynamites for the blast of rocks at the site.

Also Friday, the Nigerian Army confirmed the seizure of the dynamites and said it was investigating it.
"Thorough scrutiny by various agencies of the nation’s intelligence service - the military, the SSS and the Police - appeared to have established that actually the explosives were not meant for deadly act but for construction work," said an SSS source.

A security alert was triggered Thursday night in Abuja when soldiers intercepted the truck conveying the dynamites.

The dynamites which were in a vehicle escorted by two unarmed policemen was intercepted at the Abuja City Gate at about 8.00 p.m.
The serving policemen escorting the dynamites were said to have challenged the Soldiers for obstructing their official duty.
The soldiers on routine duty arrested and took them to Mambilla military barracks in Asokoro.

The army however denied a report by one of the national dailies that the intercepted truck was conveying no fewer than 700 explosives in Abuja, saying that such information is false and misleading.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/-intercepted-dynamites-belong-to-construction-firm-/95106/

can dynamites be used in place of bombs

Alj, look at this blunder:


<QuoteThe over 700 dynamites, thought to be explosives</quote>

I thought dynamite are "indeed" explosives


To your point, it can serve as a lethal weapon.

Demolition of skyscrapers or large concrete structures are done by strapping dynamites to them to create implosion force and level the building.

That's too much of lethal weapon in the hand of a foreigner, assuming the construction company ownership story is not a decoy to hide laundered money used both to import arms and as well to sidestep currency and tax regulations.

Negro_Ntns:

Alj, look at this blunder:


<QuoteThe over 700 dynamites, thought to be explosives</quote>

I thought dynamite are "indeed" explosives


To your point, it can serve as a lethal weapon.

Demolition of skyscrapers or large concrete structures are done by strapping dynamites to them to create implosion force and level the building.

That's too much of lethal weapon in the hand of a foreigner, assuming the construction company ownership story is not a decoy to hide laundered money used both to import arms and as well to sidestep currency and tax regulations.

thanks for the education , i thought as much

why am i not suprised that our eediots have blundered again?

For all purposes, giving benefit of truth and assuming the dynamites are for legitimate business use, as a security concern I'd still raise eyebrows on why an expatriate construction business owner has su much demolition arsenal in his posession. That's just the one intercepted and was brought to light. How many are there we don't know about that already made their way in?

If their ownership and source had to go through an investigative process to uncover, then our national security is at the mercy and in the hands of foreigners.

When intercepted the bill of lading should have indicated where the shipment is coming from and where its headed to and all the trackings of it from one end to the other in the supply chain should be coordinated by customs and sss, not police.

If security could not immediately determine on spot, with a phione call and clear the ownership of those cargo, then its almost impossible to determine how many of these shipments already made it through, via this route or other decoy routes and had in fact been "sold" to nefarious and anti-government groups.

This is a serious shyyt but they are dismissing it as noithing since the ownership can be attributed.

Anyway, no be today our security dey cause undue panic and then fail to intercept the real treat.Knowing the sentiments in Nigeria and the tension ordinarily they should have checked to ensure there stories before going to the media house with such claims.
Same source different stories!!!!

Negro_Ntns:

For all purposes, giving benefit of truth and assuming the dynamites are for legitimate business use, as a security concern I'd still raise eyebrows on why an expatriate construction business owner has su much demolition arsenal in his posession. That's just the one intercepted and was brought to light. How many are there we don't know about that already made their way in?

If their ownership and source had to go through an investigative process to uncover, then our national security is at the mercy and in the hands of foreigners.

When intercepted the bill of lading should have indicated where the shipment is coming from and where its headed to and all the trackings of it from one end to the other in the supply chain should be coordinated by customs and sss, not police.

If security could not immediately determine on spot, with a phione call and clear the ownership of those cargo, then its almost impossible to determine how many of these shipments already made it through, via this route or other decoy routes and had in fact been "sold" to nefarious and anti-government groups.

This is a serious shyyt but they are dismissing it as noithing since the ownership can be attributed.

abegi

who needs dynamite for IEDs in these days of DIY?

its jsut our police being daft

small time they will arrest people for carrying petrol

the much ballyhooed arms shipment last year - apparently that ship had been detained for some two months . they simply trotted it out so they could be sen as working.

Oyb,

I don't doubt your point.

My rhetoric is aimed at media, particularly print media. They seem to be everywhere picking stories and revealing information, but are they also asking questions in a follow up as this case definitely warrants, whichever the dice rolls - regardless that ownership is accounted for or not?

how silly can you be, we are talk about 700. which mountain do you think they want to blow in abuja. instead of you moving from abuja, you are asking question

Musiwa,

U never see the map of the metro development plan?

U should be the first person in posession. The blasting is not for mountain. They want to go underground with a rail network system, Abuja is the hub.

nigerians need lessons in pluralization

dynamite singular = dynamite
dynamite plural = dynamite

these shws that we are running a state that is becoming paranoid by the day, i just fear for the innocent people who will be caught in the mass paranoia aka mass media

Clueless

I hope it is not dynamite that was used in 9/11 attack to bring down World Trade Centre.

One week after the threat to storm aso rock, U still believe that they will use BOMB to bring down Aso Rock or NASS constructed by Julius Berger.
Nigerians wake up. Money exchanged hands, people accept responsibility. Money is powerful

When the news first came out, most Nairalanders kept insulting the northerners, saying they were the ones importing explosives to bomb Nigeria, saying the northerners in the police force and army are responsible without thinking reasonably, now we have all seen the truth that it was never an illegal explosives, ILLEGAL explosives don't get intercepted, you only notice them after they have blown up their targets.

I had thought it was BH again. Okay
construction work?
I laugh in boko haram.
Please grant boko haram independence, afterall, they are more or less counter productive to this country. Let us have peace for once, sleep well and NOT BE AFRAID OF EVEN KNOCKOUT.

the explosives were for several construction companies. I happen to know one that owns a quarry with mining granite being one of its major lucrative activities. Blasting with dynamites in quarries happens, sometimes, every two days

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/july/16/national-16-07-2011-004.html

Coming on the heels of controversy generated by the transportation of explosives by a construction company, the police have advised all companies involved in the buying and selling of such explosives to first seek clearance from the Inspector General of Police.
In a statement by IGP Hafiz Ringim yesterday, the police said that the notification became necessary “because of the current situation of things.”

While denying media reports that two cops suspected to be on illegal duty were arrested by soldiers at the Abuja City Gate, while escorting a truck loaded with 700 Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), the police the two policemen aboard the truck were genuine operatives of the Police Bomb Squad on legitimate duty.
The statement, signed by the Police Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Olusola Amore, dismissed the report of the arrest as false and completely misleading.

The statement said: “The attention of the Inspector-General of Police, Hafiz Abubakar Ringim, has been drawn to a national daily publication of 15th July 2011, captioned ‘700 bombs intercepted in Abuja.’
“A preliminary investigation conducted into the sensational publication established among other things: That two Police Anti Bomb Squad personnel F/No. 363135 Cpl Shorunke Tajudeen and F/No. 390650 Cpl Ini-obong Okon were officially detailed to escort a consignment of quarry explosives on 13/7/2011 from Dynatrac Nigeria Limited Magazine Iperu Remo, Ogun State to the following construction companies and quarry sites in Okene, Kogi State and Abuja FCT: Broni Prono construction company site Okene (already delivered); (ii)             SCC Construction company, Abuja; (iii)       Salini Construction company, Abuja; (iv)       Arab contractors, Abuja; (v)              Cinihs quarry, Mpape, Abuja; (vi)       Habibu quarry Mpape, Abuja)               
“The policemen escorting the explosives were in company of two members of staff of the company, namely, Godday Ikhidero – Sales Rep. and Taiwo Oyawusi  and in possession of company Way Bill itemizing  the goods in the truck and their intended  destination at the time of arrest.

“The IGP wishes to make it clear that this information only came to him this morning and was neither contacted by the story writers nor the arresting officers. In view of all the above, the publication is false in its entirety, misleading, untrue and should be discountenanced.

“The IGP advices all companies involved in the buying and selling of such explosives to first seek clearance from his office with regards future dealings and handlings because of the current situation of things.
“He also urges the media to always cross-check available facts before going to press and refrain from being unduly sensational in their report in view of the current security challenges in the country.”

nigeria and weak journalism

Is there any regulatory body dat could av given d coy a permit 2 use explosives, say min of environmt or sth
Are there legal documents dat shows d coy claimed ownershp.
Thorough investigatn shld be carried out cos ds filmzy excuse sounds boko-haramic.

This is a cover up. the big shot sponsoring the destructive activities of boko haram are trying to cover up the story. 700 pieces of explosives! na all the buildings for abuja the construction company wan blow? shuu !!!

Negro Ntns you seem to know something about Controlled Demolition Incorporated (CDI) owned by an American, Jack Loizeaux which is based in Phoenix, Maryland? Fashola hired them to successfully bring down the partially collapsed building on Broad Street a few years ago. The Niger Delta militants used dynamites a lot during their own bit of troubling Nigeria. It is only normal to expected Boko Haram and their cohorts to consider that option also.

leyom234:

This is a cover up. the big shot sponsoring the destructive activities of boko haram are trying to cover up the story. 700 pieces of explosives! na all the buildings for abuja the construction company wan blow? shuu !!!

Even with all the crystal clear explanation you still cannot get it?
The explosives are being used mainly in quarries in Abuja. My friend in the NYSC camp tells me rock blasting is ongoing near her camp. You need explosives for rock blasting.
AS soon as i saw the Sun report, i knew it was all bollocks. No way would anyone put 700 bombs on a lightly guarded truck and start heading to Abuja.

The Sun reporter should be prosecuted for spreading malicious falsehood.

In the days of Abacha you needed to copy the police before trafficking or use of explosives for construction. Why this should be reinstated now is obvious, why it hasn't since militancy spiked five years ago is puzzling. The police, SSS and DMI should look at these instances very carefully and adequate measures implemented such as the storage which should be in the hands of government agencies preferably the military until the day and time such is to be used. No civilian storage should be permitted for now. You can imagine if BH can storm police posts and cart away arms what they can do to civilian facilities. Just yesterday a train in Eastern Europe was freed of (was it) components for sixty missiles. And when you look closely at the list of companies that ordered those explosives their origins are not entirely inspiring.

Today you certainly don't need dynamite to create a bang, bags of Urea, congealed petroleum or hydrogen peroxide can do it but these agents are volumetric but when the screws are tightened by check points and searches it is only natural they would up the ante and that is where that bad stuff comes handy. So don't rule it out. happened in the Niger Delta. If our police was real they would have discovered by now what substance was used in the force HQ assault so that they know what step up the ladder these folks have climbed.

Dynamite in the hands of construction companies in Nigeria for now is really, really risky.

When the story made the round that a truck load of dynamites was stopped by soldier's Nairalander's heaped abuses and rained curses on muslims and northerner's but events have proved otherwise.As the saying goes Falsehood shall always perish and truth will forever prevail.Yesterday it was a fulani woman caught trying to plant a  bomb at a filling station in lagos,the other day northerner's transporting bombs caught in abuja,soon they will start arresting petrol tanker driver's because petrol can be used in making petrol bomb,trailer's conveying fertilizer's too will be intercepted as they can be used in making explosives,when hydrogen peroxide is found in your first aid kit you'll be a suspected bomber too.It is high time our journalist's are held to account for their unproffessional conduct just as rupert murdoch is being grilled in the UK,Australia and the US and at the same time never believe all you read in a newspaper.

mathskill:

When the story made the round that a truck load of dynamites was stopped by soldier's Nairalander's heaped abuses and rained curses on muslims and northerner's but events have proved otherwise.As the saying goes Falsehood shall always perish and truth will forever prevail.Yesterday it was a fulani woman caught trying to plant a  bomb at a filling station in lagos,the other day northerner's transporting bombs caught in abuja,soon they will start arresting petrol tanker driver's because petrol can be used in making petrol bomb,trailer's conveying fertilizer's too will be intercepted as they can be used in making explosives,when hydrogen peroxide is found in your first aid kit you'll be a suspected bomber too.It is high time our journalist's are held to account for their unproffessional conduct just as rupert murdoch is being grilled in the UK,Australia and the US and at the same time never believe all you read in a newspaper.

Be real. There's a war going on in a northern and you don't want people to be concerned. Don't play ostrich here. Nigerians are worried because of exactly this kind of attitude, the failure of fellow Nigerians to condemn such actions in its entirety. If profiling is to be avoided why is there no opposition whatsoever in the north against this group. No protests, nothing. Just apologies and muted responses while people are killed daily. You think those policemen, youth corpers and civilians slaughtered have no right to life. People have died and all you are concerned is about profiling. After 911 what happened to muslims in the US - profiling. When a man is killed in a community and the murderer is let out of jail what do you expect - a glorious welcome. How many whites are operating in the Niger Delta today. You think they have no stories. For goodness sake Force headquarters was assaulted with explosives, a truck load is found a few weeks later enroute Abuja loaded with explosives and you expect a red carpet welcome.

Men and women of the armed forces and security outfits are under great stress. Yes some may be naive and incompetent so you cannot fault their over zealousness. If I was trading in explosives today should anyone tell me to inform security agencies in advance before driving up to the gates of Abuja. I bet if it was Afghanistan and some explosive detection device tracked that truck, strike aircraft will never let it get near the city gates.

I am not positing for government for they have done more harm than good and fertilized the ground on which the weeds of militancy have grown but you cannot fault the tension in the populace. They should not be victims of this war. The press is merely capitalizing on their trauma.

This is just like when you catch someone with your wife in bed and he says: This is not what it looks like Sir. I am a doctor, I am just checking her temperature nothing else!

Reference:

Be real. There's a war going on in a northern and you don't want people to be concerned. Don't play ostrich here. Nigerians are worried because of exactly this kind of attitude, the failure of fellow Nigerians to condemn such actions in its entirety. If profiling is to be avoided why is there no opposition whatsoever in the north against this group. No protests, nothing. Just apologies and muted responses while people are killed daily. You think those policemen, youth corpers and civilians slaughtered have no right to life. People have died and all you are concerned is about profiling. After 911 what happened to muslims in the US - profiling. When a man is killed in a community and the murderer is let out of jail what do you expect - a glorious welcome. How many whites are operating in the Niger Delta today. You think they have no stories. For goodness sake Force headquarters was assaulted with explosives, a truck load is found a few weeks later enroute Abuja loaded with explosives and you expect a red carpet welcome.

Men and women of the armed forces and security outfits are under great stress. Yes some may be naive and incompetent so you cannot fault their over zealousness. If I was trading in explosives today should anyone tell me to inform security agencies in advance before driving up to the gates of Abuja. I bet if it was Afghanistan and some explosive detection device tracked that truck, strike aircraft will never let it get near the city gates.

I am not positing for government for they have done more harm than good and fertilized the ground on which the weeds of militancy have grown but you cannot fault the tension in the populace. They should not be victims of this war. The press is merely capitalizing on their trauma.

With all due respects you are still confusing the mayhem going on in maiduguri were as i stated earlier on another topic that 90 percent of the attacks of boko haram are in maiduguri the borno state capital not and i repeat not the whole of northern nigeria,the point here is stop lumping the entire north with borno.
Upon presenting your green passport in any foreign country the first experience most nigerians face is that of profiling,you are seen as a potential drug peddler,419er,or yahoo yahoo which all nigerian's complain off bitterly then why should we come back home and do the same.
Apologies but your thought process must be distorted to insunuate that i take more offence at profiling than the killing's going on in borno.
You are also overlooking,ignorant or not current as to  does felled by boko haram,amongst them are cordinary citizen's who  report their activities to the authorities,islamic clerics who critisize thier use of religion to commit violence  and just because people  don't protest and condemn them on the street doesn't make accomplices they are simply afraid for thier life's.
The trauma you say the press is capitalizing on is exactly what i suggest they should be held responsible.

mathskill:

With all due respects you are still confusing the mayhem going on in maiduguri were as i stated earlier on another topic that 90 percent of the attacks of boko haram are in maiduguri the borno state capital not and i repeat not the whole of northern nigeria,the point here is stop lumping the entire north with borno.
Upon presenting your green passport in any foreign country the first experience most nigerians face is that of profiling,you are seen as a potential drug peddler,419er,or yahoo yahoo which all nigerian's complain off bitterly then why should we come back home and do the same.
Apologies but your thought process must be distorted to insunuate that i take more offence at profiling than the killing's going on in borno.
You are also overlooking,ignorant or not current as to  does felled by boko haram,amongst them are cordinary citizen's who  report their activities to the authorities,islamic clerics who critisize thier use of religion to commit violence  and just because people  don't protest and condemn them on the street doesn't make accomplices they are simply afraid for thier life's.
The trauma you say the press is capitalizing on is exactly what i suggest they should be held responsible.   

No Sir, I'm not confusing the activities of this group which has struck in other northern states aside Bornu, has in its repertoire a wide range of targets from individuals to government, banks to churches, civilian to military. Highly indiscriminate. What kind of war is that. When people agitate they have targets legit or not. Militancy is targeted. ND militants attacked oil related infrastructure and kidnapped (not killed) staffers. When the military attacked they retaliated. It is clear what they stand for. Who or what are these people after. If they don't want western education then attack schools.

Secondly the concept of profiling is entirely an personal one. Practically everyone does it knowingly or not. It may be blatant at embassies and airports but don't we see it here everyday on Nairaland involving religion, business and politics. It is true. We may gloss over it in print but in practice when we feel hurt it is futile to lash out against the so called perps. The only attitude left is to change.

They may say 'you will certainly get high in a bus full of Colombians' or get 'mugged in a bus load of Nigerians but I will certainly get down from a bus full of those who don't give a hoot about dying for no reason whatsoever'. Is it up to these groups to dispel these stereotyping, I would say yes. We created our situation so we have to fix it. No one is saying the every northerner has such tendencies but it seems inordinately strange that the region has produced continuous blood letting for the past thirty years over one thing - religion. Yet this religion is present in other parts of the country. But where another one has come bearing yet another name, what can people say. What do we expect, the south to fix the situation or America or Britain or we all fold our arms.

In the Niger-Delta struggle every man and woman south of the Niger knew and appreciated the cause if not the means and for the means alone a lot of people opposed it. If it is the same in this case it means the people snuggle up to the cause but are merely condemning the acts. But if the cause and the acts are both condemnable then opposition should be more vociferous there. I say this boldly today if ND militants begin a campaign of random destruction of lives and properties they will be equally profiled as mere murderers and no one will complain.

If you are silent you will be given a name - that is the work of the press. Let the BH (which has been given an amnesty without a conflict) come out and state its terms clearly and repeatedly so we can gauge the reactions of all concerned - the residents of those states, the government and the people of Nigeria. Even Al-khaida manages that.

Reference:

No Sir, I'm not confusing the activities of this group which has struck in other northern states aside Bornu, has in its repertoire a wide range of targets from individuals to government, banks to churches, civilian to military. Highly indiscriminate. What kind of war is that. When people agitate they have targets legit or not. Militancy is targeted. ND militants attacked oil related infrastructure and kidnapped (not killed) staffers. When the military attacked they retaliated. It is clear what they stand for. Who or what are these people after. If they don't want western education then attack schools.

Secondly the concept of profiling is entirely an personal one. Practically everyone does it knowingly or not. It may be blatant at embassies and airports but don't we see it here everyday on Nairaland involving religion, business and politics. It is true. We may gloss over it in print but in practice when we feel hurt it is futile to lash out against the so called perps. The only attitude left is to change.

They may say 'you will certainly get high in a bus full of Colombians' or get 'mugged in a bus load of Nigerians but I will certainly get down from a bus full of those who don't give a hoot about dying for no reason whatsoever'. Is it up to these groups to dispel these stereotyping, I would say yes. We created our situation so we have to fix it. No one is saying the every northerner has such tendencies but it seems inordinately strange that the region has produced continuous blood letting for the past thirty years over one thing - religion. Yet this religion is present in other parts of the country. But where another one has come bearing yet another name, what can people say. What do we expect, the south to fix the situation or America or Britain or we all fold our arms.

In the Niger-Delta struggle every man and woman south of the Niger knew and appreciated the cause if not the means and for the means alone a lot of people opposed it. If it is the same in this case it means the people snuggle up to the cause but are merely condemning the acts. But if the cause and the acts are both condemnable then opposition should be more vociferous there. I say this boldly today if ND militants begin a campaign of random destruction of lives and properties they will be equally profiled as mere murderers and no one will complain.

If you are silent you will be given a name - that is the work of the press. Let the BH (which has been given an amnesty without a conflict) come out and state its terms clearly and repeatedly so we can gauge the reactions of all concerned - the residents of those states, the government and the people of Nigeria. Even Al-khaida manages that.

^^^^ Like the women below abi !!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7945820.stm
Nigerian militants 'rape women'
Niger Delta militants
Gangs of jobless youth join gangs in the Niger Delta to make money

A victim of a horrific attack in Nigeria's Niger Delta has described how gunmen raped pregnant women hijacked from two passenger boats.

The gunmen took at least five women from the boats to a camp deep in the creeks of the swampy oil region and brutally raped them, the military said.

The women were forced to lie down on the ground while the gunmen sang and danced around them, one victim said.

It is the first time that a Delta attack like this has been made public.

Two of the women were pregnant, a military spokesman said.

A security source says one of the women has since died of her injuries but this has not been independently confirmed.


They were ferocious and bloody, they took us away, and we heard they were taking us to their camp - when I heard that I thought I'd never come back
30-year-old rape victim
The attack happened on Saturday after two passenger boats were hijacked on their way from Bonny Island to Port Harcourt the capital of Rivers State.

"They told us not to lift up our eyes. I began crying to God," a 30-year-old woman told the BBC.

Begged

The attackers put guns against the heads of the men in the boat and forced them to jump into the water.

Some begged the gunmen to drop them off on land as they couldn't swim.

Five of the passengers forced into the water are unaccounted for, a military spokesman said.

"They were ferocious and bloody, they took us away, and we heard they were taking us to their camp - when I heard that I thought I'd never come back," the woman told the BBC at the headquarters of the Joint Military Taskforce in charge of security in the Delta.
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The men forced them onto the floor and danced around them before gang-raping them, she said.

Other women were taken to another camp where they were raped, according to military spokesman Lt Col Sagir Musa.

He said he did not know exactly how many women were raped by the gunmen, only that five had sought medical treatment after the attack on Saturday.

They refused to give details about how the women were rescued.

Kidnapping, robbery, hijacking and rape are common in Nigeria's Niger Delta where years of poor government has led to a collapse in the rule of law.

But this attack is believed to be the first time so many women have been kidnapped and systematically raped after a passenger boat hijack.

Numerous armed groups roam the maze of mangrove swaps and creeks.

Jobless youths join the militant groups looking for money from kidnapping, extortion from multinational oil companies and oil theft.

Some like the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), a loose affiliation of militant gang leaders, claim they are fighting for a better deal from Nigeria's oil for the inhabitants of the Delta.

But analysts say most groups doing the kidnapping and robbing are not motivated by any political struggle, and are actually criminal gangs, known as "cults" who act as hired muscle for politicians, traditional leaders and oil thieves.

http://www.iwilltalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=264
Militants rape 28 female NYSC members

Postby BigBrother on Sat Oct 25, 2008 2:49 pm
This is quite despicable. I can't imagine completing your studies in the university and then exposing yourself to severe risks because of some outdated government scheme. Unfortunately we cannot do anything about it as the government lacks the will power to admit the irrelevance of the scheme now. Imagine the scar on these 28 young ladies for the rest of their lives? :cry:

Some unidentified gunmen suspected to be militants on Thursday raped 28 female youth corps members in Abonnema, a town in Akuku Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.
A source said the militants invaded the residence of the corps members, who were posted to the town on primary assignment, and rounded up the ladies. He said the suspected militants went into every flat, raping the women at gunpoint after which they fled through the waterfront. He noted that Abonnema residents had been constantly terrorised by gangsters who relocated to the area after they were sacked from some of their locations in the creeks.
He said, “These boys are not fighting the Niger Delta cause. How can they fight the Niger Delta cause, when they continue to terrorise the people they are supposed to fight for? Abonnema has become a war front and people are fleeing their homes. Now, they rape women and threaten elders. They invaded homes of some female corps members and raped them at gunpoint.”

Militants rape 28 female youth corps members
This is the kind of madness I'm talking about existing in Nigerians. What's the correlation between corp members and fighting for resource control. I feel so heartbroken for the unfortunate corp members.


Militants kill two policemen, kidnap three EPCL managers
By Soni Daniel, Port Harcourt
Saturday, 2 Jun 2007



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Dr. Edmund Daukoru, Energy Min

Daring Niger Delta militants on Friday stormed the residence of Indians working for the Eleme Petrochemical Company and took away eight persons to an unknown destination.

The militants, according to police sources, put up a fierce gun battle with security agents guarding the premises and killed two policemen before disappearing with their victims.

Eyewitnesses said the incident, which occurred around 2am, shook the residents of Elelenwo, near the police station, which the militants bombed on April 14, 2007 and killed a policeman. Friday’s victims included three top managers of the EPCL, three women and their two children, who were forced out of their homes.

Rivers State Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Bassey Inyang, confirmed the attack in a telephone interview with our correspondent and said that investigations into the matter had begun.

The two Indians, who were seized from the same compound by militants on May 19, 2007, are yet to be freed despite pleas by the workers of the Indorama EPCL.

The militants stormed the residence and detonated bundles of dynamite on the gate before moving in to abduct the two management Indian workers of the company. The were about to kidnap more when soldiers drawn from the Joint Task Force arrived and engaged them in a gun fight.

The latest kidnap forced the workers of the company to embark on a street protest to press for the release of the foreigners. The Chairman of the Workers Association, Mr. Kriss Natti, said they were worried by the latest attack on the company’s management staff.

Natti said that the motive of the attack was unclear since the new management of he company had brought back the dead company to life and created employment for the people of the Niger Delta. No fewer than 200 oil workers have so far been kidnapped and freed since 2006.

Also on Friday, the intervention of community elders in Ogoniland in Rivers State helped oil prices slip back below $68 a barrel as supply concerns eased. BBC Online reports that protesters, who were occupying a major export pipeline in Niger Delta, were expelled by the elders, allowing valves to reopen and for crude oil to flow.


Also read up on this and see greed and arms dealing which should ordinarily destroy a nation.That amount of arms and money fighting/Arms trade is even worst.Because today they have introduce militancy and small arms insurgency. They have explosives and there attacks in delta,Bayelsa,Rivers claimed innocent lives.At the pick of Ateke and Dokubo conflicts if i remember well communities were attacked with RPGs and dynamite over suspicion they accommodate particular elements of a group.
http://saharareporters.com/interview/asari-dokubo-me-henry-okahjomo-gbomo-judith-asuni-and-niger-delta-insurgency


Than grade criminality and insurgence our government should be known rather for its zero tolerance to it.So that a clear message is sent to wanna be.Eg Boko harm,MASSOB That it will not be tolerated and will be crushed instantly.Trying to justify the actions of MEND simply says alot about our ethnic mind set.MEND are criminals period.Why? Because the Nigeria law prohibits possession of illegal fire arms,attacking people and law enforcement agents,Blowing up infrastructure and people,civil disobedience,sabotage,assault,Killing,kidnapping,unlawful assembly,unlaw association to an criminal group,rape,robbery,treason,conspiracy to attack the government/citizens and above all terrorism.All this and alot more were various actions carried out by ND militants or MEND.
So why shelf the law?Rather than for apprehension of people to be asked questions and trials to suggest punishment for wrong deeds.They get rewarded.Why?Today another(Boko haram) has come again with its own reasons.It will only get worst.Not because of sentiments.I feel cheated being a law abiding citizen honestly.You work and pay taxes.You obey fundamental laws of the land and yet get harass.While criminality gets rewarded !!! Now which one seems attractive?

haka_nai:


^^^^ Like the women below abi !!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7945820.stm
Nigerian militants 'violation women'
Niger Delta militants
Gangs of jobless youth join gangs in the Niger Delta to make money

A victim of a horrific attack in Nigeria's Niger Delta has described how gunmen violated pregnant women hijacked from two passenger boats.

The gunmen took at least five women from the boats to a camp deep in the creeks of the swampy oil region and brutally violated them, the military said.

The women were forced to lie down on the ground while the gunmen sang and danced around them, one victim said.

It is the first time that a Delta attack like this has been made public.

Two of the women were pregnant, a military spokesman said.

A security source says one of the women has since died of her injuries but this has not been independently confirmed.


They were ferocious and bloody, they took us away, and we heard they were taking us to their camp - when I heard that I thought I'd never come back
30-year-old violation victim
The attack happened on Saturday after two passenger boats were hijacked on their way from Bonny Island to Port Harcourt the capital of Rivers State.

"They told us not to lift up our eyes. I began crying to God," a 30-year-old woman told the BBC.

Begged

The attackers put guns against the heads of the men in the boat and forced them to jump into the water.

Some begged the gunmen to drop them off on land as they couldn't swim.

Five of the passengers forced into the water are unaccounted for, a military spokesman said.

"They were ferocious and bloody, they took us away, and we heard they were taking us to their camp - when I heard that I thought I'd never come back," the woman told the BBC at the headquarters of the Joint Military Taskforce in charge of security in the Delta.
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The men forced them onto the floor and danced around them before gang-Desecrating them, she said.

Other women were taken to another camp where they were violated, according to military spokesman Lt Col Sagir Musa.

He said he did not know exactly how many women were violated by the gunmen, only that five had sought medical treatment after the attack on Saturday.

They refused to give details about how the women were rescued.

Kidnapping, robbery, hijacking and violation are common in Nigeria's Niger Delta where years of poor government has led to a collapse in the rule of law.

But this attack is believed to be the first time so many women have been kidnapped and systematically violated after a passenger boat hijack.

Numerous armed groups roam the maze of mangrove swaps and creeks.

Jobless youths join the militant groups looking for money from kidnapping, extortion from multinational oil companies and oil theft.

Some like the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), a loose affiliation of militant gang leaders, claim they are fighting for a better deal from Nigeria's oil for the inhabitants of the Delta.

But analysts say most groups doing the kidnapping and robbing are not motivated by any political struggle, and are actually criminal gangs, known as "cults" who act as hired muscle for politicians, traditional leaders and oil thieves.

http://www.iwilltalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=264
Militants violation 28 female NYSC members

Postby BigBrother on Sat Oct 25, 2008 2:49 pm
This is quite despicable. I can't imagine completing your studies in the university and then exposing yourself to severe risks because of some outdated government scheme. Unfortunately we cannot do anything about it as the government lacks the will power to admit the irrelevance of the scheme now. Imagine the scar on these 28 young ladies for the rest of their lives? :cry:

Some unidentified gunmen suspected to be militants on Thursday violated 28 female youth corps members in Abonnema, a town in Akuku Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.
A source said the militants invaded the residence of the corps members, who were posted to the town on primary assignment, and rounded up the ladies. He said the suspected militants went into every flat, Desecrating the women at gunpoint after which they fled through the waterfront. He noted that Abonnema residents had been constantly terrorised by gangsters who relocated to the area after they were sacked from some of their locations in the creeks.
He said, “These boys are not fighting the Niger Delta cause. How can they fight the Niger Delta cause, when they continue to terrorise the people they are supposed to fight for? Abonnema has become a war front and people are fleeing their homes. Now, they violation women and threaten elders. They invaded homes of some female corps members and violated them at gunpoint.”

Militants violation 28 female youth corps members
This is the kind of madness I'm talking about existing in Nigerians. What's the correlation between corp members and fighting for resource control. I feel so heartbroken for the unfortunate corp members.


Militants kill two policemen, kidnap three EPCL managers
By Soni Daniel, Port Harcourt
Saturday, 2 Jun 2007



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Dr. Edmund Daukoru, Energy Min

Daring Niger Delta militants on Friday stormed the residence of Indians working for the Eleme Petrochemical Company and took away eight persons to an unknown destination.

The militants, according to police sources, put up a fierce gun battle with security agents guarding the premises and killed two policemen before disappearing with their victims.

Eyewitnesses said the incident, which occurred around 2am, shook the residents of Elelenwo, near the police station, which the militants bombed on April 14, 2007 and killed a policeman. Friday’s victims included three top managers of the EPCL, three women and their two children, who were forced out of their homes.

Rivers State Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Bassey Inyang, confirmed the attack in a telephone interview with our correspondent and said that investigations into the matter had begun.

The two Indians, who were seized from the same compound by militants on May 19, 2007, are yet to be freed despite pleas by the workers of the Indorama EPCL.

The militants stormed the residence and detonated bundles of dynamite on the gate before moving in to abduct the two management Indian workers of the company. The were about to kidnap more when soldiers drawn from the Joint Task Force arrived and engaged them in a gun fight.

The latest kidnap forced the workers of the company to embark on a street protest to press for the release of the foreigners. The Chairman of the Workers Association, Mr. Kriss Natti, said they were worried by the latest attack on the company’s management staff.

Natti said that the motive of the attack was unclear since the new management of he company had brought back the dead company to life and created employment for the people of the Niger Delta. No fewer than 200 oil workers have so far been kidnapped and freed since 2006.

Also on Friday, the intervention of community elders in Ogoniland in Rivers State helped oil prices slip back below $68 a barrel as supply concerns eased. BBC Online reports that protesters, who were occupying a major export pipeline in Niger Delta, were expelled by the elders, allowing valves to reopen and for crude oil to flow.


Also read up on this and see greed and arms dealing which should ordinarily destroy a nation.That amount of arms and money fighting/Arms trade is even worst.Because today they have introduce militancy and small arms insurgency. They have explosives and there attacks in delta,Bayelsa,Rivers claimed innocent lives.At the pick of Ateke and Dokubo conflicts if i remember well communities were attacked with RPGs and dynamite over suspicion they accommodate particular elements of a group.
http:///interview/asari-dokubo-me-henry-okahjomo-gbomo-judith-asuni-and-niger-delta-insurgency


Than grade criminality and insurgence our government should be known rather for its zero tolerance to it.So that a clear message is sent to wanna be.Eg Boko harm,MASSOB That it will not be tolerated and will be crushed instantly.Trying to justify the actions of MEND simply says alot about our ethnic mind set.MEND are criminals period.Why? Because the Nigeria law prohibits possession of illegal fire arms,attacking people and law enforcement agents,Blowing up infrastructure and people,civil disobedience,sabotage,assault,Killing,kidnapping,unlawful assembly,unlaw association to an criminal group,violation,robbery,treason,conspiracy to attack the government/citizens and above all terrorism.All this and alot more were various actions carried out by ND militants or MEND.
So why shelf the law?Rather than for apprehension of people to be asked questions and trials to suggest punishment for wrong deeds.They get rewarded.Why?Today another(Boko haram) has come again with its own reasons.It will only get worst.Not because of sentiments.I feel cheated being a law abiding citizen honestly.You work and pay taxes.You obey fundamental laws of the land and yet get harass.While criminality gets rewarded !!! Now which one seems attractive?

The question is what does BH stand for.

@Haki

Thanks for the news, some people just feel MEND was one saint of a group, they obviously do not know what MEND did during their era, yet they all got amnesty  


^^^^

They stand for islamatization of the whole northern states and wants sharia to be used to judge everyone of them.

Trust me, those elite wouldn't want that to happen, who want his or her hand cut for stealing public money?