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Mainland Bridge - Guardian InvestigationApr. 10, 2013

THE security and intelligence community chiefs that talked about the vigilance
that prevented the planned attack of Lagos three weeks ago failed to disclose to
the public the magnitude of weapons the masterminds of the terror act had
deployed for the failed operation and the main target, The Guardian's
inquiries have revealed.

The Guardian Intelligence Unit learned at the weekend from the authorities
concerned that apart from the deadly weapons uncovered, the arrested
attackers' main target was the strategic Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos.

According to revelations at the weekend, the attackers surreptitiously conveyed
the weapons to Lagos inside some of the numerous fuel tankers that ply major
roads to Nigeria's former capital and indeed Nigeria's commercial nerve
centre.

The Guardian learnt at the weekend that indeed the Federal and Lagos State
authorities were quite startled that the masterminds of the planned terror act
could pile up weapons of mass destruction in Lagos, generally considered the
safest haven for investment at the moment in Nigeria.

It was learnt that the Lagos State authorities, including the governor, were
shown the illegal arms that the security and intelligence community's
interagency co-operation confiscated recently. "They were shocked, really
shocked when they were shown the level of organisational capacity of the evil
ones that planned to attack Lagos…",  a top source disclosed last week.

In a related development, security chiefs that briefed the National Assembly
top-shots last week about the reality of the planned attack of Lagos reportedly
told the federal legislators that indeed the attackers had planned to attack
Lagos to cripple the economy. Lagos is the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria.
Former Head of State, the late Gen. Murtala Muhammed, had in 1976 recognised the
strategic importance of Lagos even while he was announcing the creation of
Nigeria's new capital Abuja then.

His words in a national broadcast to the nation on January 3, 1976: "… Lagos
will, in the foreseeable future, remain the nation's commercial capital and
one of its nerve centres. But in terms of servicing the present infrastructure
alone, the committed amount of money and effort required will be such that
Lagos State will not be ready to cope.

"It will even be unfair to expect the state to bear this heavy burden on its
own. It is therefore  necessary for the Federal Government to continue to
sustain the substantial  investment in the area. The port facilities and other
economic activities in
the Lagos area have to be expanded.

"There is need in the circumstances for the Federal Government to maintain a
special defence and security  arrangement in Lagos which will henceforth be
designated a special area. These arrangements will be carefully worked out and
written into the new constitution. Kaduna and Port Harcourt are to be accorded
similar status and
designated as Special Areas…"

The Guardian Intelligence Unit learnt that the security chiefs told the federal
legislators and their presiding officers that some of the attackers captured had
hinted that the plan of attack on Lagos was deliberate: to cripple the nerve
centre of Nigeria's commerce and industry, a city that plays host to the
international air and sea ports so that Nigeria's economy could collapse.

It was said that the insurgents had reasoned that since they had successfully
crippled business operations in the North, there should be federal character
spread of the destruction, as even the East and South-South geo-political zones
too have been negatively affected by the insurgency and kidnapping. The federal
legislators were said to have been alarmed by a revelation about the sense of
urgency of the insurgents to hit Lagos "just to make Nigeria ungovernable for
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