The Department of the State Security Service (DSS) has arrested
suspected Boko Haram Improvised Explosive Device, (IED) expert, positioned to
penetrate the Nigeria Army through recruitment.
The
DSS, in a statement by one Tony Opuiyo, said the arrest was in response to the
regrouping of Boko Haram elements in Kano State.
Opuiyo
said "the service, in concert with the military, carried out co-ordinated
operations in the state which led to the apprehension of two high profile
members of the sect, namely; Ibrahim Ustaz Abubakar and Idris Audu (aka AYA).
"Audu
is an IED specialist who was being groomed to penetrate security agencies in
the country and he had already perfected plans to seek for recruitment into the
next recruitment scheme of the Nigeria Army, before his arrest."
Also,
the service, on August 22, arrested one Samuel Asuquo, a kidnap kingpin, who
was the mastermind of the kidnap of three Australian staff of Lafarge Cement
Company, for which his gang received ransom of N150 million at Nasarawa Bakoko
village in Cross River State.
Similarly,
on August, 30, 2016, the trio of Bamaiyi Mustapha (aka Dan Borno), Aminu Isa
and Hassan Shehu, members of a notorious kidnap gang operating around the
Abuja-Kaduna axis, were arrestedA at Lafia, Nasarawa State.
The
gang had earlier kidnapped five Igbo women and collected the sum of N13, 000,
000. 00 as ransom. They were subsequently arrested by the service while
planning a high profile kidnap in Abuja.
In
another operation carried out same day at Tamburawa village along Kano-Zaria
Expressway, Kano State, Alhassan Musa and Ado Yusuf, members of a notorious
kidnap/armed robbery syndicate operating from Falgore forest in Doguwa LGA,
Kano State, were also apprehended.
SOURCE: http://allafrica.com/
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