Thursday, September 29, 2011

Bomb threat: OPC pleads with MEND


Vanguard
29 September 2011

Bomb threat: OPC pleads with MEND

Lagos -  Dr Frederick Faseun, the founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), on Thursday appealed to the militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to desist from carrying out its bomb threat on Saturday.

MEND had on Wednesday warned that it would detonate a bomb in Abuja on Oct. 1, exactly a year after it set off bombs near the Eagle Square, Abuja, killing no fewer than 12 Nigerians, most of them security operatives, as the nation was marking its 50th independence anniversary.

Faseun said  in Lagos that the reason for the appeal to MEND was to avoid the loss of innocent lives.

“I know that the leadership of MEND cannot get up to threaten to bomb without having its reasons, but care must be taken to ensure that nobody dies.”

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