The Nigerian State Security Service, SSS, has arrested a network of
Iranian sponsored terrorists led by one Abdullahi Mustapha Berende, who
were planning to kill former military ruler, Ibrahim Babangida and the
present Sultan of Sokoto.
Though other members of the spy ring
are at large, the SSS however captured some of Berende's accomplices
including Olayinka Saka and Saheed Aderemi Adewumi.
It is not
clear what the objectives of the group was but it is suspected that
their mission was to spark off a civil war in Nigeria as part of a proxy
battle against the West.
It would be recalled that in 2011 an
Iranian cache of arms was intercepted at Nigeria's Tin Can Island port
and when attempts were made to arrest the Iranian behind the importation
of the arms he fled to the Iranian embassy in Abuja from where he was
later arrested after the intervention of Nigeria's foreign affairs
minister.
Iran also practices Shia Islam as against the Wahabbi
and Sunni variety practiced in Nigeria and is known for wanting to
promote its brand of Islam beyond its borders.
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