Senator Ndume Latest: How SSS Established Case Against Him

The Department of State Service (SSS) appears to have established a strong connection between the detained Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume and the former spokesperson of the dreaded Boko Haram sect, Ali Sanda Umar Konduga (a.ka Al-Zawahiri). 

Information pieced together suggest that part of the evidence the SSS has assembled against the senator is what a security source described as “the two-way communication link, via telephone between the senator and the man known as Al-Zawahiri”. It was learnt that the “connect is so strong that even the attempt by the senator’s wife to address a press conference on Friday afternoon had to be quickly thwarted by the senator himself.


“When it was discovered that the woman (wife) was attempting to address the press on the matter of the detention of her husband”, the source continued, “it was impressed on the husband that should such a press conference be addressed, the Department would go to town with details of its findings which allegedly link the senator to Al-Zawahiri. “At that point, the man had to make a quick contact with the wife, putting a halt to the move for a press conference”.

According to SSS sources: further investigations were still on, “the evidence we have suggests that when the Police Headquarters was bombed, it was the same Al-Zawahiri who announced to the world claiming responsibility on behalf of Boko Haram and we also believe that, prior to that incident, the two men had communication or were in contact.” 

“If that is fully established, the puzzle we are attempting to solve is why the senator did not alert the authorities; but the investigations continue”, the security source disclosed.

Ndume and the Ali Sanda Umar Konduga (a.ka Al-Zawahiri) had been docked at the Chief Magistrate Court Zone 2 Abuja on Tuesday when Zawahari was convicted on terrorism charges and the senator’s trial commenced. Zawahiri had pleaded guilty while Ndume pleaded not guilty.


Magistrate Oyebola Oyewumi commenced sitting at 2:10pm Ndume wore white buba and matching cap with glasses. Ndume took his plea in English while the 2nd accused spoke through an interpreter. Ndume was calm, but looked apprehensive when the 2nd accused started narrating to the court how he (Ndume) allegedly furnished them with information.


He glared at the 2nd accused all through the court session

He looked crest-fallen when the magistrate declined to allow him on bail. The senator dashed to the door immediately the court rose, alongside SSS operatives. At 3:15 pm, he was whisked away in a Peugeot 406 car marked-Abuja-BR-867-RSH.

Source: Vanguard News

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