Anybody who doesn't realize that the corporate existence of Nigeria is in the balance over the next two months must be sleeping with fire on his roof. President GEJ has been advised on the need to lock down this country security-wise at least one month to election day - and that does not necessarily mean soldiers harassing citizens at every turn. We are already inside a month to election day! See what they are discovering:

Quote: "Meanwhile, the Special Task Force (STF) in Plateau State yesterday in Jos intercepted a truck with registration number KN XH 379 KMC, loaded with assorted explosive devices from Kaduna, The truck was conveying 15,000 Kg of ammonium Nitrate (25Kgx600) 50,000 Kg of codex fuse (500mx100ctns) 5000 pieces of electric detonators (1000 pieces X 5 cases) 1000 pieces of card relays 25ms (1 case) 80 pieces of electric detonators,  Other items are 775 Kg of super power, 25mm (25 Kgx31ctn), 5pieces of drilling rod 4 fit and 5 pieces of drilling rod 6 fit."

Still one is encouraged by the renewed urgency: "Jonathan wants the security agencies to, increase their intelligence gathering effort so that attacks should be stopped ever before they are carried out,” the source further said.

I say step on it already. The good people of Nigeria must not be sacrificed for the inordinate ambitions of a bunch of thieves.

Saturday, 12 March 2011 00:00 From Isa Abdulsalami, (Jos) and Ibukunoluwa Kayode (Lagos) News - National   .User Rating: / 0
--Agencies Unfold Fresh Plans Over Safety
--Task Force Intercepts Explosives In Jos

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has carried his resolve to bequeath the nation with security of life and property across the country beyond the level of mere rhetoric.

To this end, he has asked the various security agencies to collaborate as never before in an effort to meet the target he has set out for them; zero unsolved security breach to start well before the general elections.

Meanwhile, the Special Task Force (STF) in Plateau State yesterday in Jos intercepted a truck with registration number KN XH 379 KMC, loaded with assorted explosive devices from Kaduna.

According to a top security source close to the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), a meeting of high calibre members of the State Security Service (SSS), National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the Police and even the Military Intelligence will be convened within a week to map out how to address and meet the security challenge which had been deteriorating ever before President Jonathan’s inauguration.

According to the source, President Jonathan has issued an express order to the NSA to do all in his powers to see that the spectre of unsolved security breaches across the nation was brought to an end. The source said that “it is President Jonathan’s express desire to bequeath Nigeria with a new legacy, in which life and property will be totally safe across the nation; one in which assassination or arson will no longer be a viable option during an election campaign; one in which any deviant who shuns the rule of law and respect for human life and embraces mayhem, will be fished out and punished adequately.

The NSA, on his part, is said to be keeping the approaching inter-agency meeting under wraps so as not to unduly alarm the populace as crime is present in every society across the globe, though the seeds of discords sown ever before President Jonathan’s ascendancy into office were now bearing the fruits of wrath through blood-letting that has been exacerbated by the approaching general elections.

President Jonathan had security of life and property in mind when he promised Nigerians a free and fair election. And on this, a top Presidency source said the President was solidly bent on delivering the freest and fairest elections in Nigerian history. Once the elections are conducted and Nigerians see that nobody is cheated as peoples’ votes are be made to count, and peoples’ wished as expressed through their votes have the implied effect, there is bound to be a shift in the way Nigerians take recourse to violence during elections.

The source said that so far, at least during the party primaries, the President allowed internal party democracy to hold sway, and also encouraged those who came to him claiming they were cheated, to have recourse to the courts – and court orders in all matters have been obeyed to the letter according to the publicly stated stance of the President.

Of course, this may have alienated some persons who thought they occupy a special place in the good books of the President as he refused to disobey internal party democracy dictates and help in their bids for various elective offices, but President Jonathan is confident that with time, such persons will come to appreciate the essence of the “breath of fresh air” the President is introducing into the country.

According to the source, the meeting will give the security agencies the chance to work out more ways of collaborating among themselves, especially on the new moves of combating crime and assassinations in the land. The security agencies will also work out ways that the nation will benefit from the new law recently passed by the National Assembly, which has given a new interpretation to the term terrorism – now punishable by death.

Most of all, the source said security services had been faring better than the public ever thought; that those who claimed to be acting for Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) when they bombed Abuja have hardly been able to act again as the arrow heads have been arrested. Also, just minutes after the Suleja bomb blast, a suspect was already in the police net.

“Yet, Jonathan wants the security agencies to do much better than that; he wants them to increase their intelligence gathering effort so that attacks should be stopped ever before they are carried out,” the source further said.

The truck was conveying 15,000 Kg of ammonium Nitrate (25Kgx600) 50,000 Kg of codex fuse (500mx100ctns) 5000 pieces of electric detonators (1000 pieces X 5 cases) 1000 pieces of card relays 25ms (1 case) 80 pieces of electric detonators.

Other items are 775 Kg of super power, 25mm (25 Kgx31ctn), 5pieces of drilling rod 4 fit and 5 pieces of drilling rod 6 fit.

Confirming the arrest of the truck and its driver to journalists in Jos yesterday, the spokesman of the STF, Capt. Charles Ekeocha said the vehicle was intercepted at a check point at Mr. Ali NEPA Zaria Road by Sector One men on duty late on Thursday night.

Ekeocha explained that the truck was coming from Kaduna to Jos allegedly belonging to Duwan Company Limited with office at Plot 10129 Yelwa Complex in Jos with one police constable, Kingsley Charles, in mufti as escort at the time of the arrest.

Ekeocha further said the STF Commander, Brig. Gen. Hassan Umaru, has directed that the vehicle and its content be detained at the STF Headquarters in Jos pending full investigation as to the end use and also to properly look into the particulars which have discrepancies having originated in Kaduna and signed in Lagos and why in such large quantity.

He stressed that the explosives were being moved around without proper escort and knowledge of the security men on ground.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41344:jonathan-orders-tight-security-during-after-polls&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

Very soon the middle would not hold anymore.

SSS is also arresting some top NPLF and Atiku guys who thought they were untouchable. IMHO, surprise action is the best way to tackle these people; I hope to see dozens arrested in the next couple of weeks.

U de vex?:

SSS is also arresting some top NPLF and Atiku guys who thought they were untouchable. IMHO, surprise action is the best way to tackle these people; I hope to see dozens arrested in the next couple of weeks.

And they lousy reason they are giving that they were to attend a meeting were they will discuss how to poison Jonathan - yet you do not thing its witch-hunting

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And they lousy reason they are giving that they were to attend a meeting were they will discuss how to poison Jonathan - yet you do not thing its witch-hunting

Do you think I care if they claim to be witch hunted or that the reasons for their arrest are lousy? The right thing is happening to them, they need to be locked up and the key thrown away. Can you count the number of lives lost in Jos and the North in general this year, including tender babies burnt to husks?

Many of those demons have now disappeared underground for fear of arrest. were they not the ones talking about "cowards", "weak" people etc? Now when they should be manning up, they choose to take to their heels at top speed instead! lol!

However, the Commissioner of Police, Anti-Bomb Squad, Mr. Ambrose Aisabor, on Saturday told journalists in a telephone interview that the business was legal as it was authorised by the police anti-bomb unit.

He said that STF was being mischievous by going on the air even when one of his officers had intervened to tell them the true position.

According to him, the company that owned the consignment is licensed by the Ministry of Solid Minerals Development to deal in explosives for commercial purposes.

He said that the explosives were being moved from the company’s magazine (a place where explosives are escorted like armoury for arms) in Kaduna to its Jos office before the truck was intercepted.

Aisabor added that the constable, who was escorting the explosives was properly authorised by his superiors in Kaduna, adding that the fact that he was not wearing his uniform as at the time the truck was intercepted, was an issue that could be dealt with departmentally.

He said, “Explosives are used in aviation, road construction, oil companies to blast stones and the company has the proper licence to do the business. This is a cheap propaganda and they have succeeded in just deceiving themselves. They want people to know that they are working.

“The movement was a legal one and the law allows only men of the anti-bomb squad (Explosives Ordinance Depot) to escort such consignment to its final destination. Indeed, the truck was only 200 metres to its destination, AT Mister Ali, before it was intercepted. I was made to understand that one of my officers asked the driver to give the phone to the soldiers to speak to them but they refused.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art2011031311163048

Jonathan and his boy boy security chief whipping up fake alarms, very incompetent bunch from head to toe!