Kaduna — The conviction of Henry Okah as the mastermind of October 1, 2010 bombing in Abuja sent a clear signal to people outside Nigeria that terrorism is not a monopoly of northern part of Nigeria, President of Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria Shehu Sani has said.
Okah was sentenced to life imprisonment by a South African High Court last week Monday for masterminding the October 1, 2010 Independence Day bombing.
Sani told Daily Trust in Kaduna yesterday that the conviction which confirmed that the bombing was carried out by the militants had neutralised the misinformation that violence in Nigeria is a political agenda by the north against the southern Christian president.
"What is very clear is that the security challenge in Nigeria is a product of deep fitted animosity and a product of years of prolonged injustice and inequity that been entrenched in Nigeria by successive government. The coordination of violence in Niger-Delta is a confirmation that the amnesty programme is a sham and is simply buying peace and not ending the violence or solving the problem", he said.
Reacting to the threat of bringing Nigeria down and dismantling the country as stated by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) in reaction to Okah's conviction, Sani said the threat should not be taken lightly by the federal government since the group had always lived up to its threats.
He said Okah's conviction will compound security challenge in Nigeria and urged President Goodluck Jonathan to apologize to Nigerians for his initial statement that the October 1, 2010 bombing was not carried out by Niger Delta.
Sani challenged President Jonathan for not addressing the socio-economic problems of the Niger-Delta, as he is only appeasing the Niger-Delta bourgeoisie and at the same time creating and enriching a new class of elites.
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I agree with you perfectly but us try your Boko Haram and their sponsors.Read about what the Islamist have done to World Heritage in Timbuktu.You can palpate the hatred the Local have for the Islamist.
That is the predictable pattern of the sub-human awusa thought process. It does not come a surprise that the jerk's warped logic is justification for his clan's barbaric conduct. he is now in the business of allocating and sharing guilt and criminality 'equitably' between the North and the South as a result of the unsettling sabre-rattling from the MEND camp.It is now important to this awusa jackass that the Jonathan administration takes the "threat" seriously. WHY??? His grave concern is affect of resurgence of Niger-Delta unrest on access to the Oil blocs for the rapacious, gluttonous, wide-eyed awusa parasites. The random murder of innocent people by shehu Sani's paid killers is a non-event deserving little or no regard. Though he gets credit for the acknowledgment of the sham "amnesty" as only serving to allow access to the blocs for Northern oil buccaneers, in the characteristic awusa sheepish, he will not suggest negotiation with the Militants as he does for his BOKO HARAM brothers; MEND threat must "be taken very seriously" by the Federal Government, because awusa and Shehu Sani say so. On the other hand we must put up with of idiotic, barbaric conduct of a maniacal clan, negotiate with and lavishly appease them with money, then transform savages and low-lifers into the super-rich, and say 'thank you very much' for the brutal murder of innocent people. This pinhead called Shehu Sanni would wish for our acceptance that the rest of the country owes something to a barbaric clan, and, perhaps, Southern victims of their satanic violence did not deserve the life they lived after all. The sooner these savages are expelled like the gut worms they are, the sooner we can get respite. We cannot afford the luxury of time for the evolutionary transformation of wild beasts into the homo sapiens, for we may have to wait forever. Wild hyenas don't change.