BOMBING OF UN HOUSE: Supplier of bomb materials arrested

The man who supplied materials for the making of Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, to members of the Boko Haram has been arrested by the State Security Service, SSS just as it emerged that the sect had sent 270 of its members to Yemen and Sudan for training on terrorism according to security sources trailing activities of the group.
The break through in the arrest of the supplier of IEDs came as a result of confessional statements obtained from the arrested members of the sect, Babagana Ismail Kwaljima a.k.a Abu Summaya; and Babagana Mali a.k.a Bulama.

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In addition, Kwaljima and Mali have also told the authorities that they had taken part in some bombing ventures in some parts of the country.
Vanguard gathered that both men confessed to having taken part in bombings in Bauchi, the Bauchi State capital and Maiduguri, the Borno State capital
Information made available to Vanguard in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, yesterday, suggested that part of the reasons the bomber chose the UN House “may not be unconnected with earlier intelligence about the bombings which were planned for the city but which the authorities got wind of”.
Adequate arrangements put in place
In fact, according to a security chief, “there had been adequate arrangements put in place once we learnt of the plans of the sect members. That was why places like the Federal Secretariat, the National Assembly Complex, the headquarters of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Complex, and even some embassies were fully secured”.
Information made available also indicated that the choice of the UN House by the sect may have been a last minute option “with the intention of inflicting maximum hurt and generating optimum though negative attention”.
Already, the arrested supplier is making useful information to his interrogators.
Meanwhile, on the issue of a seeming shoddiness in the handling of the intelligence about the intended bombing in Abuja, another security source told Vanguard that “the nature of the intelligence we got was not target-specific and, therefore, what happened was a situation where we prioritized the areas of coverage”.
However, the UN House missed the radar of the intelligence and security communities.
“Knowing the pattern of the activities of the group we moved to save-guard some strategic locations in the capital city”, Vanguard was told.