Security-Nigeria - Evidence so far gleaned from the specimen gathered by ballisticians and forensic experts from the debris picked up at the Force Headquarters after last Thursday's bomb blast points at insider connivance in the entire mayhem. Sources at the Force Headquarters said the preliminary reports by the experts assembled by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Alhaji Hafiz Ringim to unravel how the person carrying the bomb entered into the force headquarters and successfully detonated the bomb showed that there was insider connivance. According to sources, the mega-tonne bomb, which could be found only in military and related installations, have sent the National Security Adviser (NSA) to re-strengthen his intelligence gathering parameters with a view to getting to the pin-point of where the bomb came from.

It was gathered that not only was the specie which wrecked the havoc similar to what is being kept in military armouries, the level of accuracy in detonating the bomb has left the NSA with no option than to raise queries on the dependability of certain elements posted to certain strategic exclusive places and vulnerable points.

Last week's bomb killed no fewer than 10 persons given unofficial figures, including visitors, drivers, members of the Police Mobile Force (PMF) on stand-by at the Force Headquarters as well as several people and contractors who mill around the vast parking lot.

Apart from the two burnt corpses which were taken to the Asokoro General hospital mortuary, the other victims were mangled and flung far and between the premises in bits and pieces.

Some of such specie were even discovered at the Police Officers Wives Association (POWA) schools, just opposite the FHQ as well as up to the Court of Appeal premises and construction sites and the nearby bush and other premises.

With last week's media speculation of the possibility of the bomb courier barging into the IGP's convoy, which seemed almost impossible, within security circles, given the training given to drivers of VIPs on defensive driving and the ease with which those who planted such stories created the "distraction" among the uninformed, such information however have sent the security chiefs back to the drawing board.

It was learnt that since it was not possible for any untrained driver to have barged into the IGPs convoy and yet have a leeway as being speculated, but could have taken only someone who connived with insiders to have successfully brought done so possibly and in addition brought in such high level tonnage of bomb into the premises, the need for further probe became inevitable.

Only recently while commissioning the Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) procured by the Borno State government to ward off the dreaded Boko Haram which had wrecked havoc in the state and other parts of the North East, the IGP has boasted that the days of the sect group were numbered.

But the reasoning within security circles is that given that only insiders in the system, who wanted to prove a point, could have allowed the bomb courier to gain entrance into the force headquarters moments before the IGP arrived, this clue is being further investigated.

It was also gleaned , according to our security sources that the insiders, which included the top shots manning the entrance gate to the Force Headquarters as well as those in-charge of the CCTV section, it became imperative to put a searchlight on the areas in order to ascertain which of them played which role and how possibly.

The source noted that with the level of sophisticated security gadgets installed at the FHQ gate, precise location of such dangerous objects could have been picked even before it approached the complex and pre-emptive measures immediately put in place.

Similarly, the FHQ-CCTV was found to have failed to pick the identities of those who came into the FHQ in vehicles before the bomb went off, leading to the clue that it could have only been possible through insider connivance.

Had these happened, the sources told our reporter that the Police Anti-Bomb section would have acted immediately and put off the bomb before it went off.

One of the sources told our reporter: "my friend, how do you think this place is so porous as you are ascribing to it now. It is not so. This place is so secure that the last thing we expected is this kind of embarrassment. It is unfortunate and has cast a slur on all of us, but we shall get to the end of this matter.

"We are working on the possibility of an insider playing the mole in the entire unfortunate episode. We are working on all our clues and in due course, you would be surprised at what we have been able to gather".

When further probed, the sources told our reporter of how comparatively the FHQ and Presidential Villa could rank among the most secure places in the country, "but now, they have carried this game to our door- mouth and we have danced naked".

With available information, it is being further felt that some embassies in Abuja may have equally been involved but the motives of such embassies were still being analysed.

Similarly, the role of the terrorist gang which security had ascertained is code named Boko Haram and dubbed religious sect, is being more critically analysed so as to ascertain if they have other motives except the ones they had made public among which is the "islamization" of the northern parts of the country.

The possibility of the IGP being the target is also being more closely analyzed to see the synergy between this factor and the factor of insider abuse as well as the relationship of this and the sudden disappearance of some earlier arrested suspects, placed under surveillance at the same FHQ in the past and immediate periods.

Security at the FHQ and other vulnerable places have been at its peak, with most policemen being so unruly to specially journalists, whom they would rather engage in acts of brutalization than allow them even explain their identities and if they have any official business in the place.

Malachy Uzendu

Daily Champion/20/06/2011