HOW DSS FOILED BOKO HARAM PLOT TO BOMB DOLPHIN ESTATE IN LAGOS.

The timely intervention of the Department of State
Services, which led to the arrest of 45 suspected
Boko Haram members, saved Dolphin Estate,
Ikoyi in Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos,
from a bomb attack in September.
The suspects, charged to a Lagos State
Magistrate’s Court sitting in Isolo on Friday, have
been sent to Kirikiri prisons in the state.
The DSS, which obtained the remand order on the
suspects, told the court that they were arrested in
connection with a foiled attack on Dolphin Estate.
The DSS, Punch reports, said the suspects were
arrested following intelligence report on their
alleged plan to attack the estate, which is in a
high brow area in the state.
It said the suspects had volunteered confessional
statements, adding that arms were recovered
from them.
The DSS urged the court to remand the suspects
in prison pending further investigations.
The magistrate, who asked that his name should
not be disclosed for security reasons, granted the
prayers that the suspects be remanded in prison.
According to the charge filed before the court, the
names of the suspects include Abuyi Sheriff,
Babagana Ali, Abass Ibrahim, Abubaka Grema,
Kabiri Ibrahim, Mustaph Mohammed, Usman
Mohammed, Modu Amsami, Isa Agafi, Adamu
Jebili and Saja Kamba.
Also among them were: Abba Sagoma, Mallam
Buchu, Abdul-Kareem Abba, Babagana Koloye,
Usman Buka, Adamu Mohammed, Lawal
Mohammed, Tela Abana, Mustapha Mohammed,
Isa Agafi, Belo Modu, Kachala Babagana, Modu
Abu and Alhaji Modu Mustapha.
An affidavit presented in court disclosed how a
team of the DSS cordoned off the area,
intercepted the suspects and carried out the
arrests.
The DSS disclosed that it had arrested some
suspected terrorists in various places in and
around Lagos including Kara, Isheri Berger area;
Gowon Estate, Egbeda, Alimosho area; Ijora
Badia, Apapa area; and Ebute-Meta in Lagos
Mainland Local Government Area.
Earlier in the year, two suspected members of
Boko Haram were also arrested in the metropolis.
The suspects were apprehended during an
operation carried out by men and officers of the
Operation Mesa, a joint security outfit comprising
members of the armed forces and those of the
DSS
The raid had taken place at the Ijora 7-Up area of
Lagos, after a tip-off on the activities of a terror
network coordinated by Iranians in the city.
The National Security Adviser had also recently
issued a security alert on the likelihood of Boko
Haram attacking Lagos seaports following
concerns expressed by the United States Embassy
on the level of insecurity at the country’s
seaports.