How Boko Haram Planned To Bomb Abuja With Petrol Tankers And Why Most Wanted Boko Haram Suspect Found In Abia

                       

Odogwuemekaodogwu.com informed that Boko Haram members had planned to bomb Abuja , the Federal Capital Territory  by seizing  petrol tankers,  plant Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) on them and drive them to crowded places in the capital city without suspicion by security operatives.
 The National Information Centre (NIC) yesterday alerted Nigerians of  the plot by Boko Haram to bomb the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), using petrol tankers.
Coordinator of the centre, Mike Omeri, who made this known at a media briefing in Abuja, spoke of how the insurgents were planning to  seize petrol tankers,  plant Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) on them and drive them to crowded places in the capital city.
Omeri, who is also the Director-General of the National Orientation Agency(NOA), while calling on residents of the FCT to be on the alert and report any broken down tankers in any part of the city to security agencies, however, said they were working with the Petrol Tanker Drivers Association (PTDA) to forestall any attack.
He has also called on PTDA to be on the “red alert”, and report any attempt or seizure of their vehicles to security agencies.
“Similarly, we are using this opportunity to appeal to the public to be on the alert particu­larly when they see any tanker driving danger­ously”.
On the update of the 486 suspected terror­ists arrested in Abia State on Monday, Omeri, said: “It must be made clear and understood that the exercise was not targeted at any group or persons or individual, but aimed at general security of the country”.
He said the presence of the most wanted ter­ror kingpin among the suspects who had been profiled by the Department of State Security (DSS) in 2007, led to further questioning of the large movement of persons travelling in a con­voy of over 30 buses with none of the travelers having up to N1,000 on them.

Omeri, while calling for understanding from the public to allow security agencies carry out their duties, said, “clearly, their mission was suspicious and had to be thoroughly investi­gated”. On the bomb blast at a football viewing centre in Yobe State on Tuesday, Omeri said 10 people died in the attack while 30 others were seriously injured and receiving treatment in hospitals.

The Defence Headquarters revealed had hinted that one of the most wanted Boko Haram kingpins was one of those arrested out of the 486 suspected terrorists which included 8 girls.

Here is a statement released by the Defence Headquarters, signed by the Director of Defence Information, Chris Olukolade:

‘’A terror kingpin on the list of wanted terrorists of security forces in Nigeria has been detected in the ongoing screening of the 486 suspects nabbed while travelling in over 33 Hiace Hummer buses at night along Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway last Sunday.

So far, other security agencies, including the para-military, have joined the screening exercise to ascertain the status of the remaining suspects. Those identified as possible security risk or illegal immigrants are expected to be identified for further action. The identified terror kingpin has been taken into custody’’.

The Boko Haram members are shifting base to the Southern Nigeria to coordinate bombings  in all the states of the South-East ,South-South  before heading South West based on  threat of Alhaji Asari Dokubo that if they bomb any part of the South, they would see bombing,odogwuemekaodogwu.com reported purportedly.That was why they were shifting where the heat was less.