Security operatives on Saturday shut down the Amigos Supermarket, one of the largest supermarkets in Abuja, and Wonderland Amusement park, also in the nation’s capital.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that when its correspondents visited the business premises in Abuja on Saturday, the gates were under lock and key.
A security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the closure of the facilities was as a result of “order from above.”
NAN also reports that the two commercial facilities that were always at their peak of activities at weekends, were deserted.
NAN observed that the presence of armed security men at the premises, particularly Amigos Supermarket Wuse II, scared passersby as they hurried away or drove past the area.
NAN further reports that the premises were sealed off following the allegation that a co-owner of the centres was linked to terrorism activities in the country.
As at the time of this report, armed security men were on guard at the premises to maintain law and order.
NAN recalls that the Joint Task Force in Kano had said that Fauzi Fawad, a co-owner of the centres, had escaped after he was named a member of a Lebanese Hezbollah Terrorist cell in Nigeria.
When contacted, the Deputy Director of Publicity of the Department of State Security, Marilyn Ogar, confirmed the closure of the premises by the security outfit.
Ogar said the closure was to allow for smooth investigation of the involvement or otherwise of a co-owner of the business outfits in the recent discovery of arms and ammunition in Kano, Kano State.
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