Security operatives on trail of more Lebanese interests

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Three days after the shocking discovery of an armoury suspected to be owned and operated by a Lebanon-based terrorists organisation, Hezbollah, in Bompai, Kano State, security operatives are going after all business interests mentioned in connection with the armoury.

A top security source confided in our correspondent on Sunday that security operatives had been searching for all business ventures linked to Mustapha Fawaz, co-owner of Amigo Supermarket and the Wonderland Amusement Park, in Abuja, with a view to closing them down.

Already, two businesses, Amigo Supermarket on Adetokunbo Ademola Street and Wonder City Amusement, by the Airport Road, had since been shut down.

The source said the clampdown on businesses operated by Fawaz and any other Hezbollah operatives in Nigeria, was not restricted to Abuja, as efforts were on to trace such businesses in Kano and other cities, especially in the North,  to put them under lock.

As of Sunday, security operatives had not lifted the siege on Amigo Supermarket, which is reputed to be among Abuja's biggest supermarkets.

On Sunday, a combined team of stern-looking soldiers, the police and the SSS were seen asking motorists not to park around the area but to keep moving, without molesting people.

Also, on Saturday evening, our correspondent, who drove through the besieged area, saw some people in plain clothes packing some things in cartons into a white coloured-bus.

Efforts made by our correspondent to find out the content of the items in the cartons were not successful, as security operatives simply refused to comment on it.

A top security source said whatever the outcome of the investigation might be be made known to Nigerians at the appropriate time.

The Punch