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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.
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