Grandiose Parlor

Michael Dickson, the man in the picture, holds some explosives he had tried to smuggle aboard a jetliner in Nigeria. Somehow, his plot was foiled…by sheer luck!

While the reports carried by various Nigerian mainstream media suggest that the explosives were meant to be detonated once the airliner was airborne; there is very little in the reports to support this assertion. Were the explosives rigged to explode mid-air? Was there an attached  detonator?

This man is most likely nothing more than ”a mule”, so it becomes imperative that security agencies unravel the motive behind the explosives, as daunting as this may be.  

Whatever the motives are, however, some lives were saved by the discovery. My hunch is that the explosives would have be used to cause some havoc before or during the 2007 elections.  

Will the Nigerian airline operators conform with the “no exception” search mandate given by the aviation boss? If this incident does not, I wonder what will!