As security agencies dive into a frenzy to unravel the mystery surrounding the explosion early Wednesday, 12 June 2019, at the Port Harcourt Shopping Mall, there seems to have popped a window they could explore to get to the root of the incident.

Late Wednesday, 12 June 2019, an Instagram platform, PortHarcourt_Specials published a post from a website, www.nazcargadwritersblock.com where an unidentified writer posted an article titled: “How to get a bomb into Port Harcourt Mall.”

Kristina Reports findings indicate that the website: NAZCARGAD with the slogan, “Where writers and bibliophiles meet” published the post “How to get a bomb into Port Harcourt mall” on June 7, but there was confusion whether it was 2018 or 2019.

An excerpt from the articles reads:

“Could set up in any of the bathroom stalls preferably the one up-escalator by Debonair’s Pizza

“My domestic bomb wouldn’t have a large perimeter reach and I’m guessing about 50 casualties hopefully including more rich people than window shoppers and of course the sales who laughed when I fell on the tricky escalator (sure that’s not how the white men make theirs).

My bomb will only hit a section of the mall, however the proximity to the Central Bank of Nigeria and of course the Government House will raise millions of eyebrows.

I only stand the chance of being an instant celebrity if I get caught or decide to release an album 20 years later detailing How I did it.

Sounds like a plan, what I need now is faith (Jesus says I only a smidgen) and then pick a date…I like the sound of June 12^th, the newly proclaimed democracy day. On this day I shall get my FOUR MINUTES.”   

Kristina Reports further checks showed that NAZCARGAD and PortHarcourt_Specials might have pulled down the original article owing to growing interest in it as the planned date for the attack by the writer coincided with the date of the explosion.

Though, the Manager of Port Harcourt Shopping Mall, Chioma Okorie told the Secretary to the Rivers State Government, Tammy Danagogo, that the fire incident broke out in a kitchen of one of the shops in the facility, this development has cast a pall of doubt on the veracity of the claim by the mall’s management.

Danagogo was at the mall Wednesday evening at the behest of the State Governor, Nyesom Wike, for an on-the-spot assessment of the incident.

Though there were no casualties, five persons were reportedly injured in the explosion.