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Article: Arms haul mounts as Customs open more containers - 29/10/2010 15:01

FOR a nation not officially at war with any enemy within or outside its territory, the sheer size and sophistication of the haul is staggering. Several mind-numbing questions sprang up at the scene: “Who placed the order for these weapons of mass death? Who is he or she out to take down and why? What do-or-die affair were these meant to prosecute in the country? Given the legendary laxity of officialdom, could some of these high-calibre weaponry have already slipped in? No one can tell but the saga continues.

And so, more sophisticated ammunitions were yesterday uncovered in the on-going joint inspection operations mounted by the nation’s law enforcement agencies on the 13 containers laden with military weapons currently at the Apapa, Lagos ports.

But in a twist to the incidence, Israeli officials said on Thursday that the military-grade armaments seized at the Apapa shipping terminal in Nigeria came from Iran and were bound for the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

The military officials, according to agency reports, would not provide evidence to support their claims, citing “security concerns.”

However, Ismail Radwan, a Hamas leader in Gaza, denied the weapons were headed to Gaza.

However, the information initially appeared to conflict with claims by the Nigeria Customs officials that the weaponry, which included 107 mm artillery rockets, were to be used in Nigeria.

Iran remains a bitter enemy of Israel and supports Islamic militant groups in Lebanon and Gaza that are in a state of war with the Jewish state. In the winter of 2008, Israel launched a military campaign against Iran-backed militants in Gaza in an attempt to stop years of almost daily rocket attacks on southern Israel.

The two containers thoroughly searched yesterday yielded an array of mortars and other military assault weapons. Eight containers have been opened thus far.

The ammunitions were neatly buried inside crates of marble in an apparent camouflage.

Sources at the inspection scene who spoke on the condition of anonymity, expressed optimism that more weapons would be unearthed in other containers waiting to be opened.

“As at 3.10 p.m. today (yesterday), we are about concluding the search inspection on the second container for today and the eighth container, in total,” the source disclosed to The Guardian.

Contrary to the speculations on the consignment’s origin, impeccable Customs sources told The Guardian that intelligence reports indicated that the containers actually originated from one of the countries with sophisticated nuclear power capability in the Middle East, Iran.

On his tour of the scene yesterday, Comptroller-General of Customs, Abdulahi Dikko, attributed the successful interception of the deadly cargo to the collaborative efforts of the nation’s law enforcement agencies at the seaports.

According to him, immediately the cargo arrived, security alert was raised based on previous intelligence reports and suspicions about the cargo. He said the promptness of the security agencies made it difficult for any shipping agency to successfully clear the cargoes out of the port.

Dikko added: “If anybody had wanted to clear this cargo, it could never have been cleared. There was an attempt to deny it and it shows that there was query on it from Immigrations. We have a very strong system, which can detect any irregularity even from the clearing process.”

He assure of the security agencies’ resolve to investigate the matter to a logical conclusion, with a view to unmasking owners of the shipment and the motive for their act

In a statement by the Customs Image-maker, Wale Adeniyi, an Assistant Comptroller, the agency said initial investigations had shown that its system had blocked attempts by the importers to clear the containers due to observed irregularities in the import documents.

Dikko, according to the statement, stressed that the Customs system was set up to thwart any suspicious importations, adding that the seized containers were discovered following their lack of Form M and Risk Assessment Report (RAR).

To forestall future occurrence, Dikko said he has directed all Customs field operatives to remain vigilant, “as more criminally minded importers will make similar attempts to test our resolve.”

He charged Nigerians to volunteer useful information to the Service, stressing that “the security of the nation is a collective responsibility of all security agencies, and indeed all patriotic and well-meaning Nigerians.”

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Article: DPO RAPES LADY TO DEATH - 10/10/2010 02:43

The Divisional Police Officer of a police station in Aba, Abia State (names withheld), has allegedly raped a lady to death inside his office.
The lady whose name was given as Princess Zainab Chinasa Uwakwe, and said to be very close to a serving senior police officer from Abia State, was said to have approached the DPO on telephone over a matter her relation had at a police station. But the DPO invited her over for a supposed discussion on the matter.

In honouring the invitation, our man learnt that Princess, who hailed from Amakpor Igbere in Bende Local Government of the state, went to the police station in company with a young man, Nkem Igbokwe, who waited outside while the lady went in to see her supposed host.
A reliable source hinted that as soon as the lady who was said to be an aspirant under the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) for Aba North state constituency, entered the DPO’s office, she was offered suya and a bottle of drink bought for her by the police officer.

The police officer was alleged to have locked the door behind them, preventing his subordinates and visitors from having access to the office. But the cat was let out of the bag when, after the sex, the lady started gasping for breath while blood gushed from her private part. It was reported that immediately that happened, the DPO called in a patrol team led by one inspector to rush her to the hospital. On getting to the hospital, according to the report, the victim, who the police fictitiously gave her name as Princess Nnenne Udah to the hospital authorities, gave up the ghost.

It was gathered that while the young man who accompanied the lady to the police station was still waiting outside, the police patrol team, carried the lady out of the DPO’s office through the back gate to New Era Hospital. Investigations, which suggest the DPO might have drugged either the suya or the drink he gave the deceased to make her dose off in order to have illicit affairs with her emerged when it was gathered the lady had severally rebuffed overtures of the police officer.

This indication was given by the younger sister of the deceased, Nkechi, who told Daily Sun that “my sister was raped; her neck and lips were swollen; it was like she was battling with the DPO inside his office. She was discharging foam from her mouth and blood was gushing from her private part. In fact, she was brought to the hospital without her bra and underwear,” she said amidst sobs.

It was the talk in the police station that the officer might have taken burantashi, a local substance that enhances and energizes male organs, before raping his victim. When Daily Sun visited the police station, some officers were seen in groups discussing the incident. One of them who spoke under the cover of anonymity said, “the DPO has been a source of embarrassment to us. He has been sexually harassing our female officers here and nobody questions him because he boasts he is well connected within the state and outside.”

Efforts made to reach the DPO who was said to be unruffled over the incident as he was in office yesterday failed, as he neither picked calls made to his cell phone nor replied text messages. When contacted, the Area Commander, Nigeria Police, Aba Area Command, Mr. Ebere Onyeagoro said he had heard about the incident, but was yet to be briefed officially. He, however, said the cause of the lady’s death could only be determined through autopsy, which, he said, the police were yet to carry out.

Some people who spoke to our reporter over the incident said it was unfortunate that while residents of Aba were yet to come out of the rape orgies their women experienced in the hands of kidnappers, a police officer of the standing of a DPO would add to the list. They called for probe. Posted by naijatrouble at 5:09 PM

Article: CECILIA IBRU GOES TO JAIL - 10/10/2010 02:14

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Cecilia Ibru

Convicted former Managing Director of Oceanic Bank PLC, without urgent medical assistance.

Justice Dan Abutu of Federal High Court, Lagos, convicted to three of the charges.

She is also to forfeit assets worth N191billion comprising
But an EFCC source told Sunday Sun that the former bank chief perhaps why the judge ordered that she be taken to highbrow
He disclosed, “she is seriously ill and she actually time was on September 13, 2010 in Lagos while signing cardiac problems and might need the assistance of
Indeed, a source that visited her in detention added, “She oven and she looked very pale with swollen legs. If you see
The EFCC source noted, “with the present condition of better than what she will discover in prison and my guess health challenge is up to them, but surely she will need
Another EFCC sources claimed it was because of the health case over with and face the music. She refused the so that she can treat herself properly. Even the expecting her to deploy the usual delay tactics and
The source also added that the EFCC was amazed at the magnitude she could have amassed all that as assets and yet the that she was probably a conduit pipe for some people Mrs Cecilia Ibru,is seriously ill and might need a miracle to survive the 18-month jail term slammed on her last Friday, Mrs Ibru, who was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a 25-count charge, after she pleaded guilty of 49 properties located in Nigeria, United States, Dubai, and the United Arab Emirate.
“ would need a miracle to complete her jail term and come out alive because of her health challenges and that was Reddington Hospital, Lagos, for continuation of her treatment.”
collapsed three times in the course of her trial. The first time was in August 2009 when she collapsed in the dock, the second some documents and again on Friday after she was convicted.” The source revealed, “We have reason to believe that she has a surgeon to be able to live healthy again.”
once held my hand while in detention and her skin was burning hot. Her temperature of her hands was like the inside of an her you will know she surely needs medical help.”
the woman, I doubt if she can withstand the rigours of prison life. She will need a miracle; our detention condition is far is she is not likely to be able to go through a week in prison without collapsing. How the prisons authorities would handle her an elaborate medical attention.”
challenges that Mrs Ibru did not allow her lawyers to use technicalities to delay the case. “She just wanted to get the long route that her lawyers gave her to delay the case. Apparently she wanted to get over this phase of her life as quickly as possible Commission was amazed at the way she decided to go for the trial promptly and even pleaded guilty to some of the charges. We were stunts lawyers pull on EFCC.”
of the asset of the former bank chief. “Those assets are far too much for one person and you will ask yourself how bank she headed did not collapse. And she was not in custody of the wealth of the entire Ibru family? The only plausible answer is involved in money laundering and she just ploughed the money into assets.”