Fresh Plot to Kill President Jonathan,David Mark Uncovered...Egberipapa, three others arrested
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Special forces from the Department
of State Security, DSS arrested a militant, comrade Egberipapa, accused of
violent assassination plot to kill President Goodluck Jonathan, Senate
President David Mark and some top government officials, Per Second News
exclusively gathered Tuesday.
Egberipapa, was arrested
Tuesday morning at an Abuja Hotel by a crack team of
the DSS, According to preliminary information provided by a source.
Officers of the DSS, acting on
information supplied by informants and intel, arrested Egberipapa, who
according to the source was masquerading under another name at the time of the
arrest. He is also known as Sobomabo Jackrich.
Eluding a nationwide manhunt, he had
arrived in Abuja last week-end. The operation was carried out
quickly and the number of culprits captured alive — including
“Egberipapa” — was significant.
Per Second News gathered that the plot hatched by the gangsters with links to Henry Okah, who is presently in a South African detention center was to kill President Jonathan and Senate President, David Mark in Abuja at a public function.
Per Second News gathered that the plot hatched by the gangsters with links to Henry Okah, who is presently in a South African detention center was to kill President Jonathan and Senate President, David Mark in Abuja at a public function.
Per Second News investigations
indicate that DSS officials discovered the assassination plot via intelligence
gathering. Several gang leaders had been detained in connection with the plot
and were handed over to authorities in their respective states in a bid to
extradite them to Abuja.
General Egberipapa, is a former
leader of the Movement of the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND.
On Monday, January 21 2013, a South
African court convicted Henry Okah, an ally of Egberipapa, of 13 charges of
terrorism, including bombings that killed 12 people in Abuja on October 1,
2010. Handing down the verdict, Judge Nels Claassen said, "I have come to
the conclusion that the state proved beyond reasonable doubt the guilt of the
accused.
He has been sentenced to 24 years
imprisonment and is currently serving this sentence at the Ebongweni
Correctional Centre in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. Throughout the trial he
maintained his innocence citing the trial was a result of his denial to support
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan's statements and accusations that the
October 1st Independence Day attacks were executed by leaders from Northern
Nigeria.
President Goodluck Jonathan in a
Presidential media chat revealed that Okah had planned to assassinate
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