South African prosecutors have claimed that Henry Okah, the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, ordered the twin car bombings that left 16 people dead during Nigeria’s 50th independence anniversary in Abuja.
According to the Agence France Presse, the prosecutors, who spoke during Okah’s bail hearing at a Johannesburg Magistrate’s court on Monday, said that he instructed the suspected bombers to detonate the explosives by phone.
“Investigations have... revealed that you are one of the persons who gave the directive for the explosives to be detonated,” the leading prosecutor, Shaun Abrahams, said while cross-examining Okah at the hearing.
“The available evidence clearly implicates you insofar as modus operandi is concerned and insofar as giving the instructions are concerned.”
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