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THE Department of State Security Service (SSS), on Wednesday, cleared the mystery surrounding the actual destination of the arms and ammunition seized at the Apapa Ports in Lagos recently, saying that the destination of the cargo was Nigeria, contrary to claims that it was meant for another country.

Briefing newsmen in Abuja on the update of the seized arms and the Warri and Abuja bomb blasts, SSS spokesperson, Mrs Marilyn Ogar, Assistant Director, Public Relations, disclosed that available facts at the disposal of the Service showed that the destination of the cargo was Nigeria.

Ogar, who gave account of how the illegal cargo came into Nigeria before the seizure, explained that its bill of laden actually read, “building materials comprising glass wood and pallets of stones with destination as Nigeria.”

She declared that with this development backed up with necessary documents, “any argument that the cargo came into this country by mistake is false.”

According to her, “the ship that carried the cargo arrived at the Tin Can Port on 10th July, 2010 with 371 containers from which 85 were discharged at Frano Bonded Warehouse, Cele-Ijesha area of Lagos. The said ship departed on 11th July, 2010.

“On 20th October 2010, 13 containers out of the 85 were moved from Frano to AP Molar Terminal Apapa Port, where service personnel requested 100 per cent inspection of the containers,” she explained further.

Mrs Ogar, who assured that the Service would get to the root of the matter with the ongoing investigations, said that at present, both the consignee and the clearing agent were in their custody and declined to reveal the identities of the suspects due to ongoing investigations.

On the Warri and Abuja bomb blasts, Ogar said that further investigations had revealed that the two blasts were perpetrated by the same group allegedly under the supervision of Henry Okah, who is currently facing trial in South Africa.

She, however, disclosed that more suspects, including Lagos-based car dealers and a welder connected with the blasts had been arrested along with the receipts for the cars used in the bombing.

She explained that after the purchase of the cars, they were moved to Charles Okah’s residence in Apapa, Lagos, where the welder, welded the compartments in the cars for housing the bombs from where they were subsequently moved to Port-Harcourt and then finally to Abuja.

Ogar equally disclosed that some suspects had been nabbed over the Warri bomb blasts as they were the same set of people allegedly used by Henry Okah to execute the October 1, 2010 bombings in Abuja.

She explained that investigations had revealed that Henry Okah allegedly came from South Africa for the Warri bombings, purchased the cars which were used for the operations, moved them to the welder and later to the house of one of the suspects on March 13, 2010 where he personally wired the bombs.

According to her, “on 14th March, 2010, Okah departed the country, apparently to create an alibi for himself over the bombings that eventually took place the next day.”

On the alleged secret trial of the suspects, Ogar denied the claims, saying that, “the Service has been absolutely procedural and lawful in the ongoing prosecution of the affected suspects.”

Source: http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/13421-seized-weapons-meant-for-nigeria-sss-declares-arrests-clearing-agent-consignee

Another set of unequipped universities all in a name for GEJ to point to accomplishments

Waste of funds, upgrade the available ones first!

Doctors are usually among the most paid in most countries, this is a good move,

maasflan:
You are welcome , here if you are a professional, lets discuss how we gonna develop africa.

can african professionals compete with american professionals ?
say the truth

Sure Nigeria has many talented professionals that can change the economic/business outlook of Africa.

We need more access to credit however to make things happen, and a more conducive business environment e.g security, power

ishit4body:
answer it yourself.

Why not cast your vote

to answer your question I think he is just playing the normal politician games to gain public support, the guy is clueless IMO

Do u think GEJ is really working to improve lives of Nigerians or just playing the public to gain votes next election?

Pls cast your votes.

eros:
NYSC is a complete waste of 1 year that can be used for productive things. If i were given the chance, i did say scrap the bloo.dy money wasting project. I heard recently a Senator was trying to pass a bill for NYSC to be scrapped. Well, i pray the bill gets through because it only enriches the pockets and bank accounts of those in charge of it.

NYSC shouldnt be scrapped it gives people the opportunity to work where they prob would never had worked without naija connection. plus it helps nigerians know a little about their country.

after all that i feel you dont need nysc unless its a move to return home for good, u need to ask urself if u see urself settling in the country u are, if yes, pls dont go and waste your time in nigeria u are not missing anything, telling you from experience. If i had the right advice i would not have gone to do my nysc, cos now im back in the UK

[size=16pt]JUST REMEMBER VOTING GOODLUCK IS VOTING PDP![/size]

na2day!:
@all the posters supporting the reckless behaviour as free meat, hope u guyz know dat AWUF dey run belle!
Your reasoning is amazing!
Have u considered the toll on the health from eating a decomposing carcass?
Its like a busted petrol pipeline spewing gasoline and u decide to go and scoop free fuel because u've been paying for fuel all your life, of course when u get roasted don't come here to complain, idio.ts!  

LOL Thank you for using petrol to explain now we understand how dangerous it is  

Abagworo:
If you compare this to Bakare's prophesy,then they said thesame thing that Buhari is expected to be the true winner while Jonathan will steal Buhari's mandate and either dies or is removed halfway after putting the country in chaos.Every word in that prophecy has come to pass including Sambos problem with GEJ.It is not the wish of anybody for GEJ to die but if all men of God say that same thing,I think he should quit this whole election and move on with his good life.

i dont think its buhari, i feel its Ribadu he has a lot of enemies that will never want him to be President, i dont see Buhari winning much votes

What problems does Sambo have with GEJ now

Brownteeth:
ladi02, the fact still remains that the 2011 elections is between GEJ, Buhari and IBB if he doesnt get the PDP ticket. Its either you vote for the best among these three or you forget about voting.

You are wrong Ribadu is as popular as Buhari imo it will be between GEJ & Ribadu

I am ready to "waste my Vote" but will proudly vote for Ribadu, than any of the so called "popular names" 

Brownteeth:
ladi02, the problem is the mass poverty and poor enlightenment and not me. If majority of Nigerians were educated then people like pat utomi will be men to beat. Unfortunately this is not the case. If you think the uneducated ones needs to be educated, how many of them have been educated so far?

You mean since the uneducated are more than the educated, they will vote for the popular names and everyother person should not waste their time? Did i get your point right? so the educated should back the less evil of the popular names. What a backward way to think, thats is in one word slavery my friend. Nigerians have the right to demand for change and without a fight rather than taking defeat Nigeria will never move forward.

pls think positive! b4 we recommend you to becomrich to be moved to Benin

Brownteeth:
monkeyleg, I never said GEJ and IBB are ideal for the job. They may have achieved their popularity through unworthy means, but the fact still remains that they are popular. A lot of Nigerians are troubled and hungry that the have no time to listen to pat utomi's rocket science explanation on how he intends to fix Nigeria's problems. They masses are more intrested to know what GEJ, IBB and buhari are up to cos of their popularity. Its an advantage.

Sorry but this is very a very silly thought line. What is wrong with enlightening people about others, the three names you mentioned have all been Head of State/Presidents which gave them "their popularity" so indirectly we should continue be ruled by past leaders thieves.

A lot of Nigerians are hungry the more reason we should all work together to vote in someone that can change things

I agree with u monkeyleg, the political laziness of nigerians such as Brownteeth & Kenis is what keeps us from moving forward,

pro01:
It's only in Nigeria that the impossible is taken to be a banal possibility. These academically malnourished 'junknalists' should be stripped unclothed and forced to publicly self-service in the market place. Shame.

msaalli:
So the presidential convoy drove her to New York?? Wooooow, or maybe it escorted the jet.

And is it so difficult to differentiate between "contacting her on her phone while she was boarding" and "contacting her via the telephone she was boarding at the London Heathrow Airport"?

Backroom reporting at its best!!

calm down guys, that was probably when GEJ was en route to the US

how true is this, if it was reported in sept and in Nov we still havent seen it in any other newspaper

not supporting greedy Dora, but i dont know how true this is

Cos i see Jonathan and Atiku's advert every night on NTA

Guess there are posters and billboards of ribadu 2011 around nigeria??

Just wondering why Ribadu is yet to begin campaigning unlike Jonathan, Atiku and the rest

Vote Wisely, Vote Ribadu!

Ujujoan:
Okay now I'm curious!

@ poster why did his parents not consent to the marriage

Something is definitely wrong and me thinks you are not telling us the full story!

I am sorry to say her husband now sees what his parents must have had against the marriage, and the days he disappears he probably is at one of his family members place.
@poster, I believe there is something your husband just found out about you that his making him behave this way. No man in his right senses will be like this within the first year of marriage.

My advice to you is when next he comes back beg him for forgiveness and appeal to his soft side, maybe he can forgive whatever it is or else im sorry to say he is building up courage to end the marriage if you dont try and get him to forgive and forget

goodluck!

Show him the maps becomrich so he can understand jare!

I'm so glad this is coming from you LouisThoru, you can now see that the purchase of helicopters is like buying parachutes when you dont even own a car!

This administration keeps spending on secondary needs, when our immediate needs are ignored!

God Help us!!!

The FG just approved N2.1b as emergency aid to Lagos, Ogun State and Jigawa

Source: NTA News

I dont think this administration has approved any amount less than N1b for anything, is it that our money is loosing value or we choose to inflate everything we do

LOL looks to be the MDGs was made by a female

I think the world has more trouble than all these goals they chose

I was wondering why Goal 3 was not put as Goal 8, I dont feel its a priority

Not a bad idea if implemented well, I hope its not an avenue for some govt officials to steal money tho

Lol Dude she was only joking with you about buying the car for her

LouisThoru:
IMF refutes her earlier report that Nigeria is the third fastest growing economy in the world. Since Nigerians found it hard to beleive and called IMF names, they have done the story again:

What do you have to say? This is what we want.

Another meaningless thread by LouisThoru

violent:
geez!. . . i have to be a senator, by force by fire!

I have to be a minister by force by fire!

or at the worst the special assistant to the special adviser to the special special adviser to the presidency

LouisThoru:
Conservatives = austerity, Labour = No God.

Choose wisely.

LOL guess this is just one of those days you need to lash out!

Lol good topic, the LEADERS need rebranding, not just outwardly/reputation but in their thinking

we citizens are sane

If Nigerians in Diaspora should Vote, we will make the battle tougher for PDP to win, GEJ had no excuse for not allowing us to vote this election except for his selfish motives

What year are you OP

Onovo has been removed weeks ago!

During this administration the economy has shed so much jobs than in the previous on. I dont think Jobs is on their 7points agenda

But refreshing to know that PDP days are numbered, Ribadu (ACN) will put Nigeria back on track of greatness