Navy uncovers plot to destabilise Nigeria – Tribune
November 11, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
The Nigerian Navy Command, on Tuesday, alerted that it had uncovered secret plans by some disgruntled individuals led by one Commodore Benson Edema to destabilise the country.
It said that the group had allegedly been recruiting and training some youths in weapon handling and military tactics, highlighting that some of them had been posing as naval personnel in Lagos and other parts of the country and wreaking havoc.
Their activities, according to the Director of Naval Information, Commodore David Nabaida, posed serious national threat to the peace of the country. According to him, no fewer than five persons, including a 70-year-old man, had been arrested for allegedly operating an illegal military camp.
Nabaida, while briefing defence correspondents at the Western Naval Command, Beecroft, Apapa, Lagos, said that the suspects, who were dressed in naval uniforms, fled when some naval personnel from NNS Beecroft, Apapa, raided one of their locations at No. 6, Force Road, Victoria Island, Lagos.
