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abujagirl
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Yesterday, an Abuja high court heard the case of three Lebanese suspects allegedly involved in illicit importation of arms into the country.
One of the suspects, Mustapha Fawaz, co-owner of Amigo Supermarket Limited and Wonderland Amusement Park Resort in a video shown to the court, confessed that he was mandated by a top Hezbollah agent, simply identified as “Isah”, to get an aerial picture of Abuja. He also said that he got an order to survey the Israeli Embassy in Nigeria. The suspect said he had to manoeuvre his way to the top of Sheraton Hotel in Abuja, from where he took pictures of the capital city. Mustapha Fawaz further disclosed that in both of his business outfits, Amigo and Wonderland, they were special surveillance cameras with which he had monitored the movement of expatriates, especially those of Israeli extraction.
The third accused person, Tahal Roda, who was arrested inside the house where a large cache of arms and ammunition were discovered in an underground bunker at No 3 Gaya Road, off Bompai Road in Kano, admitted that he was aware of the existence of the arms and also frequently serviced.
More video clips containing the confessions of the accused persons but which couldn’t be viewed by the court due to time restraint were accordingly admitted into evidence.
The court adjourned until Friday to enable them open defence.
The court gave the accused persons three days to adduce reasons they should not be convicted based on the 16-count terrorism charge preferred against them by the government.
One of the suspects, Mustapha Fawaz, co-owner of Amigo Supermarket Limited and Wonderland Amusement Park Resort in a video shown to the court, confessed that he was mandated by a top Hezbollah agent, simply identified as “Isah”, to get an aerial picture of Abuja. He also said that he got an order to survey the Israeli Embassy in Nigeria. The suspect said he had to manoeuvre his way to the top of Sheraton Hotel in Abuja, from where he took pictures of the capital city. Mustapha Fawaz further disclosed that in both of his business outfits, Amigo and Wonderland, they were special surveillance cameras with which he had monitored the movement of expatriates, especially those of Israeli extraction.
The third accused person, Tahal Roda, who was arrested inside the house where a large cache of arms and ammunition were discovered in an underground bunker at No 3 Gaya Road, off Bompai Road in Kano, admitted that he was aware of the existence of the arms and also frequently serviced.
More video clips containing the confessions of the accused persons but which couldn’t be viewed by the court due to time restraint were accordingly admitted into evidence.
The court adjourned until Friday to enable them open defence.
The court gave the accused persons three days to adduce reasons they should not be convicted based on the 16-count terrorism charge preferred against them by the government.