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Thursday, May 15, 2014

SSS Detains Bomb Mastermind Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche's Father

Nyanya Blasts:

Nyanya Blasts: SSS Detains Mastermind’s Father The Department of State Security Services has detained the father of the alleged mastermind of the April 14 bomb blast in Nyanya, Abuja, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche. Deputy Director, Public Relations of the service, Marylyn Ogar, disclosed this at the National Information Centre chaired by Director General of the National Orientation Agency, Mr. Mike Omeri, in Abuja on Thursday. Ogar said the Mr. Agene Ogwuche, a retired colonel in the Nigerian army, was being detained for his failure to produce his son when requested in accordance with the bail term granted to Sadiq in 2011 when he was arrested on suspicion of terrorism. The father took his son on bail. She said, “It might interest you to know also that the father who took on bail the first time is a Nigerian. Somebody asked the question what has happened to him. The day we could not get him to give us Ogwuche, he was taken in.” Shedding more light on this, Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Frank Mbah said, the sins of the son would not be visited on the father but added he must account for his negligence. Mbah said, “We don’t run a system where the sins of the son are visited on the father or the sins of the father are visited on the son. The obligation of the father as at the time he took Sadiq on bail was to continue to produce Sadiq whenever he is needed until the case against Sadiq is finally disposed of. “If he fails to discharge that responsibility, that on its own does not confirm the status of a terror suspect on him. He has only breached the conditions of the bail and he will be brought to justice in accordance with the conditions of the bail. “That explains why the DSS immediately took him in when he could not produce the son. And that is the farthest we can go. If he had signed a bond to forfeit a property or to forfeit a certain sum of money, he will be made to suffer the forfeitures but we cannot visit the sins of the father on the son.” Omeri added that if at the end of the day the father was found to be part of the gang, he would answer for it. “For now, he has contravened the terms of the bail and he is answering for that one for now,” he said. The NOA boss who also spoke on other security issues in the country said Ogwuche has not been extradited to the country yet because of the processes that needed to be completed in order to get him back to the country. He said, “The process of getting persons extradited from sister countries take some procedures and time. So his arrival in Nigeria is being delayed. The relevant agencies in Nigeria are working hard to ensure the processes are concluded so that he will come back to Nigeria. As soon as that is achieved, we will communicate to you appropriately. “By yesterday, there was reported mutiny of soldiers in Borno State. We wish to say that the nature and the details of the incidence are still very sketchy. However, a military board of enquiry looking into the matter has been constituted. The outcome of the enquiry will be communicated to you as soon as it is completed. “Related is the Kalabalge incident. We wish to confirm the incident that happened in Kalabalge town between the vigilante group and Boko Haram yesterday. While we await full details of the incident, information available to us is that residents of the town got wind of an impending attack on their community by the insurgents and therefore mobilised against the attackers. You will be briefed on the exact number of causalities when ascertained by military authorities who are already at the location. “You will recall that we had appealed to Nigerians to mobilise and support this war against insurgents. We want to commend the community for what has happened and we call on more people and citizens to be more security conscious and aware that they also have responsibility to themselves and communities while pledging that Nigerian armed forces have stepped up their game and working with local support to make sure that we put this behind us.” On a question by a foreign journalist on the speculation that Ogwuche has British passport, Omeri said he was born in the United Kingdom but said Nigeria was not going through Britain on his extradition since he has dual citizenship. He said, “He was born in the UK. So if the law permits that he is a British national, then automatically he is but his father is a Nigerian. Nigeria and Sudan has extradition understanding. Our law permits dual citizenship.” Meanwhile the heads of Nigeria’s Armed Forces have welcomed the Presidential Fact-finding Committee on the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls, noting that the committee, by its terms of reference, would help reveal to the world an accurate account of the mass kidnap that has roused global outrage and precipitated the offer of help from some major powers. The service chiefs spoke when members of the Fact-finding Committee held an intensive interaction with the top brass of the military in Abuja according to a statement made available to our correspondent in Abuja on Thursday by spokesman of the committee, Mr. Kingsley Osadolor. Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh thanked members of the committee for taking on the assignment saying it would give the nation respite if the committee would be able to get to the root of all that has happened. Badeh said, “Everybody thinks this war is for the military alone; no. It is a war for all of us.” He stressed that soldiers don’t fight wars on their own but a nation. The Service Chiefs — Army, Navy, and Air Force — dispelled insinuations that had been rife over the abduction and terror in general. Such insinuations concern the armoury and fire power of the terrorists, the morale of Nigerian troops, as well as operational deployment of troops. The military top brass explained their rules of engagement and related issues of appropriate firepower in situations which terrorism presents within Nigerian territory where there is civilian population. While thanking the service chiefs for the insight provided, the fact-finding committee chairman, Gen. Sabo (rtd), frowned at the disparagement of the country’s armed forces, and commiserated with the Services on the personnel losses suffered in the fight against terrorism. At another meeting with the Department of State Services, its Director General, Mr Ekoenyong Ita, gave a detailed brief on the department’s anti-terrorism efforts, which he said had led to several arrests and the bust of terror threats and plots. He also spoke on the Chibok abduction. The Director General dispelled the notion of inadequate intelligence gathering as a factor hindering the fight against terror. “We have gone beyond the lack of intelligence. If we didn’t have intelligence, we would not get the Nyanya bombers,” he said. Urging Nigerians to be patient, Ita gave assurance on the safe return of the abducted schoolgirls. Punch.

The Department of State Security Services has detained the father of the alleged mastermind of the April 14 bomb blast in Nyanya, Abuja, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche.
Deputy Director, Public Relations of the service, Marylyn Ogar, disclosed this at the National Information Centre chaired by Director General of the National Orientation Agency, Mr. Mike Omeri, in Abuja on Thursday.
Ogar said the Mr. Agene Ogwuche, a retired colonel in the Nigerian army, was being detained for his failure to produce his son when requested in accordance with the bail term granted to Sadiq in 2011 when he was arrested on suspicion of terrorism. The father took his son on bail.
She said, “It might interest you to know also that the father who took on bail the first time is a Nigerian. Somebody asked the question what has happened to him. The day we could not get him to give us Ogwuche, he was taken in.”
Shedding more light on this, Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Frank Mbah said, the sins of the son would not be visited on the father but added he must account for his negligence.
Mbah said, “We don’t run a system where the sins of the son are visited on the father or the sins of the father are visited on the son. The obligation of the father as at the time he took Sadiq on bail was to continue to produce Sadiq whenever he is needed until the case against Sadiq is finally disposed of.
“If he fails to discharge that responsibility, that on its own does not confirm the status of a terror suspect on him. He has only breached the conditions of the bail and he will be brought to justice in accordance with the conditions of the bail.
“That explains why the DSS immediately took him in when he could not produce the son. And that is the farthest we can go. If he had signed a bond to forfeit a property or to forfeit a certain sum of money, he will be made to suffer the forfeitures but we cannot visit the sins of the father on the son.”
Omeri added that if at the end of the day the father was found to be part of the gang, he would answer for it.
“For now, he has contravened the terms of the bail and he is answering for that one for now,” he said.
The NOA boss who also spoke on other security issues in the country said Ogwuche has not been extradited to the country yet because of the processes that needed to be completed in order to get him back to the country.
He said, “The process of getting persons extradited from sister countries take some procedures and time. So his arrival in Nigeria is being delayed. The relevant agencies in Nigeria are working hard to ensure the processes are concluded so that he will come back to Nigeria. As soon as that is achieved, we will communicate to you appropriately.
“By yesterday, there was reported mutiny of soldiers in Borno State. We wish to say that the nature and the details of the incidence are still very sketchy. However, a military board of enquiry looking into the matter has been constituted. The outcome of the enquiry will be communicated to you as soon as it is completed.
“Related is the Kalabalge incident. We wish to confirm the incident that happened in Kalabalge town between the vigilante group and Boko Haram yesterday. While we await full details of the incident, information available to us is that residents of the town got wind of an impending attack on their community by the insurgents and therefore mobilised against the attackers. You will be briefed on the exact number of causalities when ascertained by military authorities who are already at the location.
“You will recall that we had appealed to Nigerians to mobilise and support this war against insurgents. We want to commend the community for what has happened and we call on more people and citizens to be more security conscious and aware that they also have responsibility to themselves and communities while pledging that Nigerian armed forces have stepped up their game and working with local support to make sure that we put this behind us.”
On a question by a foreign journalist on the speculation that Ogwuche has British passport, Omeri said he was born in the United Kingdom but said Nigeria was not going through Britain on his extradition since he has dual citizenship.
He said, “He was born in the UK. So if the law permits that he is a British national, then automatically he is but his father is a Nigerian. Nigeria and Sudan has extradition understanding. Our law permits dual citizenship.”
Meanwhile the heads of Nigeria’s Armed Forces have welcomed the Presidential Fact-finding Committee on the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls, noting that the committee, by its terms of reference, would help reveal to the world an accurate account of the mass kidnap that has roused global outrage and precipitated the offer of help from some major powers.
The service chiefs spoke when members of the Fact-finding Committee held an intensive interaction with the top brass of the military in Abuja according to a statement made available to our correspondent in Abuja on Thursday by spokesman of the committee, Mr. Kingsley Osadolor.
Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh thanked members of the committee for taking on the assignment saying it would give the nation respite if the committee would be able to get to the root of all that has happened.
Badeh said, “Everybody thinks this war is for the military alone; no. It is a war for all of us.”
He stressed that soldiers don’t fight wars on their own but a nation.
The Service Chiefs — Army, Navy, and Air Force — dispelled insinuations that had been rife over the abduction and terror in general. Such insinuations concern the armoury and fire power of the terrorists, the morale of Nigerian troops, as well as operational deployment of troops.
The military top brass explained their rules of engagement and related issues of appropriate firepower in situations which terrorism presents within Nigerian territory where there is civilian population.
While thanking the service chiefs for the insight provided, the fact-finding committee chairman, Gen. Sabo (rtd), frowned at the disparagement of the country’s armed forces, and commiserated with the Services on the personnel losses suffered in the fight against terrorism.
At another meeting with the Department of State Services, its Director General, Mr Ekoenyong Ita, gave a detailed brief on the department’s anti-terrorism efforts, which he said had led to several arrests and the bust of terror threats and plots.
He also spoke on the Chibok abduction. The Director General dispelled the notion of inadequate intelligence gathering as a factor hindering the fight against terror.
“We have gone beyond the lack of intelligence. If we didn’t have intelligence, we would not get the Nyanya bombers,” he said.
Urging Nigerians to be patient, Ita gave assurance on the safe return of the abducted schoolgirls.














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