Henry Okah is behind October 1 bombing – witness

The trying times of Henry Okah, the guerrilla leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) took a new dimension yesterday when one of MEND’s former members, Mr. Victor Ben, who acted as a witness revealed to South Africa’s court in Johannesburg that Okah, was the brain behind October 1, 2010 car bombings that killed over 12 people in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria.
To collaborate with the accusations of Mr. Ben who alleged that he joined MEND group in 2006, another witness, who simply introduced himself as Stanley at the ongoing trial of Okah at the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, South Africa, attested to the former’s claims that indeed their leader, Henry Okah gave instruction for the attacks in Abuja during the independence anniversary celebrations two years ago.
According to the second witness, Stanley, he met Okah in 2006 and was mandated to address the warlord as “Master”.
He also accused Okah of many other atrocities, in his words: “I overheard Okah on numerous occasions discussing the purchase of weapons and in 2007 he contacted me asking me to pass a message to other leaders to do whatever it takes to get him out of jail. His wife, Azuka also planned to kidnap the Angolan Ambassador in Nigeria to bargain for his release,” Stanley said.
As if that wasn’t enough, he also confessed that in January 2010, Okah instructed him to get an empty apartment he wanted to use to assemble car bombs.
When probed further by the judge about his knowledge of the infamous Independence Day bombing, Stanley affirmed that he knew about it two days before it happened.
“A friend, Raphael Danfebo, told me Okah wanted to carry out the terror attack and gave instructions for two cars to be sent to Abuja on October. 1,” Stanley said.
It would be recalled that Henry Okah is presently facing trial for the 13 counts charge of terrorism, planning and financing car explosions that destabilized the Independence Day celebration in Nigeria two years ago.

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