Controversy is currently raging on how the shoot-out that happened early Sunday morning between some Boko Haram detainees and State Security Service, SSS, agents at the police headquarters in Abuja started.
* El- Rufai questions SSS's claim on the gunfire that happened at the police headquarters in Abuja
The Department of State Services has issued a statement, claiming that the sustained gun battle around its headquarters and the vicinity of the presidential villa this morning began after a detainee disarmed an operative and tried to effect a jailbreak.
"At 0715 hours, the Service suspect handler went to the detention facility within the Headquarters to feed the suspects," the SSS spokesperson, Marilyn Ogar, said in the statement.
"One of the suspects attempted to disarm him by hitting him at the back of his head with his handcuff. His attempt to escape drew the attention of other guards at the facility who fired some shots to warn and deter others.
"The gun shots attracted the attention of the military with whom we have an understanding of mutual assistance in the event of any threat.
"The Army immediately deployed a team to reinforce our perimeter guards to forestall any external collaborators. The situation has since been brought under control."
But knowledgeable security sources are telling newsmen that the story being told by the SSS are "untrue and misleading".
"The truth is that a jailbreak is impossible in the SSS headquarters," one of our sources said."It has two fences and is highly fortified. And there is no way a man on handcuff could launch an attack vicious enough to disarm an operative.
"Also our people need to tell the world whether it was only one gun taken from the disarmed operative that the detainees used in engaging soldiers and SSS operatives in sustained gun battle for about three hours.
"If it is about subduing one man who attempted a jailbreak, why did we need truckloads of fully armed soldiers and deployment of Armoured Personnel Carriers, RPGs and other sophisticated weapons?
"Also, why did the exchange of fire lasted for so long? Why did we have to deploy helicopter gunships to hover around the villa and Yellow House (SSS headquarters).
"Nigerians should demand the truth. I can tell you that a more serious incident happened than our people are willing to admit and there is a serious attempt at cover-up."
Some residents of the area also believe what happened could not have been just an attempted jailbreak.
"Whatever this is, it appears more serious than an attempted jailbreak claimed by the SSS," former Minister Nasir El-Rufai, who live a few metres away from the SSS headquarters said.
"May God Protect the innocent and destroy the murderers, kidnappers and planners of genocide, Amen."
Another former minister, whose home neighboured the SSS headquarters said,"I live 50 metres away from the SSS headquarters and the Villa and what I witnessed with my eyes and heard this morning was a full scale battle."
It was gathered that the entire vicinity of the presidential palace and the SSS headquarters has been cordoned off, making it impossible for journalists to do area assessment with a view to determining what actually happened.
Sunday, 30 March 2014
Look Inwards
Do you know the woman that sells boli in your streets makes more money than some of the bankers you see in suit in banking halls? Who said u can't repackage boli? What is the difference between mama put rice and Mr Biggs rice? Na the packaging distinguish them ooooh.
Ladies what will it cost you to learn how to fix nails? I bet if there is a lady out there that does not have the idea of how nails are fixed. Nigeria has a population of 63million mature ladies and almost 40Million of them fix nails these days .You can target just 200Ladies a month. If u charge N500 pa person x 200person a month=N100,000 that is what you make out the end of the month. So why are the youths killing themselves?
Do you know agriculture is a big business today and you can become a millionaire by just fish farming?
Do you know you can earn more money than a contract stuff in an oil company by just baking cakes and chinchin?
Why on earth will someone that studied Fine and Applied arts be looking for a job?
Why on earth will someone that studied Architecture be looking for job?
Do you know that foremen now do the job of Civil Engineers? Simply because the so called youths that study Civil engineering are busy looking for either Oil and gas or government jobs.
Do you know that bricklayers jobs are now be done by cotonou people. Yet this is a profession that takes home N4000 every blessed day N4000 x 22day a month =N88000. So why are youths not doing dis jobs? PRIDE I guess.
Why has nobody packaged our locally made pepper?
Why has nobody packaged garri?
Why has nobody packaged red oil?
Why are we killing ourselves all in the name of getting Oil and Gas or government jobs? Do you know out of the number of persons that went for the NIS tests, only 4000 persons will get the job. And what will become the fate of the others that did not get the job?
Please my fellow youths its important we start creating jobs. No matter how little your company is. You can start something and with focus, you can drive it to the top. Look if we don't start creating jobs our kids would end up getting no job.
So my fellow YOUTH you can see that there was no place i talked about looking for capital to start. All one needs is his/her MOUTH and LEGS to make that move. So it is only a lazy man that sits at a place and be looking for capital of N10million to start his business.
Ladies what will it cost you to learn how to fix nails? I bet if there is a lady out there that does not have the idea of how nails are fixed. Nigeria has a population of 63million mature ladies and almost 40Million of them fix nails these days .You can target just 200Ladies a month. If u charge N500 pa person x 200person a month=N100,000 that is what you make out the end of the month. So why are the youths killing themselves?
Do you know agriculture is a big business today and you can become a millionaire by just fish farming?
Do you know you can earn more money than a contract stuff in an oil company by just baking cakes and chinchin?
Why on earth will someone that studied Fine and Applied arts be looking for a job?
Why on earth will someone that studied Architecture be looking for job?
Do you know that foremen now do the job of Civil Engineers? Simply because the so called youths that study Civil engineering are busy looking for either Oil and gas or government jobs.
Do you know that bricklayers jobs are now be done by cotonou people. Yet this is a profession that takes home N4000 every blessed day N4000 x 22day a month =N88000. So why are youths not doing dis jobs? PRIDE I guess.
Why has nobody packaged our locally made pepper?
Why has nobody packaged garri?
Why has nobody packaged red oil?
Why are we killing ourselves all in the name of getting Oil and Gas or government jobs? Do you know out of the number of persons that went for the NIS tests, only 4000 persons will get the job. And what will become the fate of the others that did not get the job?
Please my fellow youths its important we start creating jobs. No matter how little your company is. You can start something and with focus, you can drive it to the top. Look if we don't start creating jobs our kids would end up getting no job.
So my fellow YOUTH you can see that there was no place i talked about looking for capital to start. All one needs is his/her MOUTH and LEGS to make that move. So it is only a lazy man that sits at a place and be looking for capital of N10million to start his business.
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