[size=14pt]13 containers of rocket launchers seized[/size]
HeadlinesOct 27, 2010



Men of the State Secret Service, SSS, offloading crates of rocket launchers intercepted at the Apapa Wharf in Lagos, yesterday. Photo: Nwankpa Chijioke
By Godwin Oritse, Godfrey Bivbere & Ifeyinwa Obi



LAGOS—COMBINED security operatives, yesterday, intercepted 13 containers laden with arms and ammunition including rocket launchers, catridges and hand grenades at the A P Moller Terminals in Apapa port.
Although, no arrest had been made at the time of going to press, the Lagos State Police Commissioner, Marvel Akpoyibo, said the command has launched a manhunt for the owners as the Police Anti-bomb squad was busy opening the crates containing the arms.
The Apapa Area Customs Controller, CAC, Alhaji Abdulkadir Azerema said contents of the containers were not declared before they were intercepted.
The first container that was opened by the various security agencies that carried out examinations discovered the 24 crates of rocket launchers and other weapon of mass destruction.
Vanguard gathered that SSS, acting on a tip off  intercepted the containers and cordoned off the entire examination bay of A.P. Moller where the containers were to be examined.
Lagos State Commissioner of Police ordered a re-enforcement of a full unit of Police Mobile Force to beef up the security of the area until the  containers are examined.
The containers with numbers 7869612, 7827707,7868370, 7869356,7870064, 7866819,7868318, 7868771, 7866676, 9478240,7868431, 1301980 and 7869464, were suspected to have been shipped from Iran.


Besides, officers of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, State Security Services, SSS, Cotecna Inspection Services, the Security department of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, and officers of the Nigeria Police Force were also present at the venue of examination.
Security agents made futile bids to stop the publication of the seizure yesterday.
Another senior security officer threatened to take it up with any media house that reported the matter.
The security officer said: “No media report yet until we have gotten ‘A, B, C, D. This is what is done abroad. This bothers on national security. I am not begging over this, it concerns you and I.




I am not bribing you not to report I am only saying that this thing bothers on security, do not  impede the investigation by reporting what you have seen and what you have not seen. Any media house that reports this I will take that person up.”
Customs CG expresses shock


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Men of the State Secret Service, SSS, offloading crates of rocket launchers intercepted at the Apapa Wharf in Lagos, yesterday. Photo: Nwankpa Chijioke

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Men of the State Secret Service, SSS, offloading crates of rocket launchers intercepted at the Apapa Wharf in Lagos, yesterday. Photo: Nwankpa Chijioke

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