Nigeria, Israel and Iran: Treading a Dangerous Path

Nigeria might be threading a path so dangerous for the corporate existence of the country with the SSS report that Iranian Terror Cell was uncovered in Lagos.

The State Security Service said in Abuja on Wednesday that it had uncovered a terror network, coordinated by Iranians, in Lagos.

 The SSS said this while parading a leader of an Islamic sect, Abdullahi Berende, and two others said to be operators of the Iranian terror cell gathering information about Israelis and Americans living in Nigeria.

Paraded alongside 50-year-old Berende were Sulaiman Saka and Saheed Adewunmi. The three were said to be working for Iranian terrorists planning to attack Americans and Israelis in the country. Another suspect, Bunyamin Yusuf is said to be at large.

This report comes a day after Nigeria signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Israel on irrigation farming. The report has every semblance with the model employed by the United States last year to pit Saudi Arabia against Iran when she announced a terrorist trained by Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRG), the highly trained and professional paramilitary body of the Islamic Republic's Armed Forces, wanted to attack the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington.

The allegation died a natural death. Experts in the United States reported that the alleged attacker has psychological disorder and that Iran and the IRG could not have carried out such attempted attack. The body is far sophisticated in acts than that.

Now, Nigeria wants to follow the same path. Why Iran? These two nations; US and Israel have the most sophisticated intelligence units (CIA and Mossad) that can penetrate any regime and destabilise any government. Already, they believe Nigeria will disintegrate come 2015. Now, we are inviting them in full.

The implication of this with regards to the Tel Aviv and Washington styles is that militants will be annoyed in the North of Nigeria, hence they will increase attacks all in the name of the incident. Nigeria will then call on the US and Israel to send in 'intelligence experts' who rather than uncover plots to attack Nigeria will work secretly for the demise of the fragile entity.

Nigeria will be so gullible if all because she has signed an MOU with Israel on farming, she wants to frame and rope Iran in other to appease her and the US.

Henry Okah is convicted

The long term imbroglio between President Jonathan and Henry Okah, the acclaimed leader of the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) is gradually finally being laid to rest with the conviction of Okah. 

A South African court on Monday convicted Nigerian national Henry Okah of 13 terrorism charges, including bombings that killed 12 people in Abuja on independence day 2010.

“I have come to the conclusion that the state proved beyond reasonable doubt the guilt of the accused,” said Judge Nels Claassen, handing down the verdict in the South Gauteng High Court.

Okah was found guilty of masterminding attacks including twin car bombings that killed 12 people in Abuja on October 1, 2010 and two explosions in March 2010 in the southern Nigerian city of Warri, a major hub of the oil-rich Delta region.

Okah continues to deny involvement in the blasts. He said the charges were politically motivated. He also denied leading MEND, but had said he sympathised with their goals.

However the South African court found Okah was the leader of the movement after uncovering documentary evidence including his wife’s handwritten notes. (AFP) 

Okah's brother who has been held in Nigeria ever since in connexion with the bombing had written a long letter smuggled out of prison detailing all the conspiracy against his brother as revealed by his interview and questioning by men of the State Security Service (SSS). 

It now looks as if becoming the President is another avenue to get back at those one is not in good terms with.