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Original Post Date: 2010-04-06 Time: 11:00:01 Posted By: News Poster
Lagos – THE recent attack on a Boeing 5N-MJJ Arik Airline aircraft at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport, Calabar, by a lone taxi driver, is a clear indication of the porous security situation at some otherwise sensitive installations in Nigeria.
The attacker, driving a blue Audi car, with registration number, NA 234 KAM reportedly gained access to the airport’s tarmac by crashing through two security gates.
Unchallenged, he headed straight for the Abuja-bound plane, which was about taxing down the runway for take off, probably targeting to blow it up by smashing the fuel tank.
This was, however, averted when the car got stuck under the plane’s belly, just before reaching the fuel tank, thereby causing only a big bang that forced the about 100 passengers and crew members who were on board to disembark quickly and scamper away to safety.
Coming barely three months after a 23 year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab’s failed attempt to blow up a passenger-packed Delta Airline aircraft just before arriving in Detroit Airport, last Christmas day, we see this ignoble action of the taxi driver in Calabar, especially the ease with which it was carried out, not just as an indictment on the security agents responsible for Margret Ekpo International Airport, but as proof that Nigeria may not have learnt enough lessons from Mutallab’s terror alert.
The attempt by Mutallab to kill 279 passengers and 11 crew members, dealt a devastating blow on Nigeria’s image, and forced the government and respective security agents in the country to give assurances of improved security measures, including well publicized claims of acquisition of sophisticated body scanning gadgets and other vital equipment.
What happened in Calabar, however, shows that all is yet not very well, as evidently, no tangible action has been taken to tighten security at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport and some other sensitive facilities in Nigeria.
It beats the imagination of right thinking Nigerians, how, after all the touted security beef up, a lone taxi driver would destroy two security gates supposed to be manned by trained officials and execute such a thriller-like operation, largely unchallenged.
We hold the view that this embarrassing event can only be explained by admitting that enough has not yet been done to fully secure all airports and similar facilities in the country and that the well publicized installation of body scanners and the extra searching may have been limited to selected airports and other choice facilities.
We believe the issue of security of lives and property is of prime importance and that measures to achieve it should be nationwide since a terror attack in a remote village near Calabar or Ikot Ekpene, for instance, would be as costly as one in Abuja or Lagos for Nigeria’s image.
So, while condemning, in its entirety, the reprehensible action of the taxi driver in Calabar, we also strongly condemn the laxity of security officials that made it possible for the attacker to rub more mud on the face of Nigeria.
We, not only support the Presidency’s directive that the matter be thoroughly investigated, but also suggest that the state of security of other such facilities in the country be probed.
The taxi driver, when arrested, reportedly made utterances that showed lack of respect for human life. He was, for example, quoted as saying that all the people at the airport were sinners who deserved to die and go to hell.
His conduct generally, especially the comments he made at the scene of the attack, should not be dismissed as the rantings of a demented fanatic.
Recalling the equally disconcerting utterances of Mutallab, when he was arrested and questioned, a similar trend appears to exist, which should be thoroughly investigated, to establish that there are no foreign collaborators, however remote they may be.
Also, more than ever before, our security officials, at all levels, must wake up and accept the fact that security must be tightened everywhere in the country, to avoid more of such embarrassment.
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Original date published: 6 April 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201004060335.html?viewall=1