The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested three people who are gun runners, covert linkmen and couriers for the Boko Haram insurgency group.
The arrested persons are Musa Garba Abubakar (Engr.) aka Muhadis Musa Bin Haddad, Umar Khalil Muhammed and Mohammed Yakubu Tahir aka Mallam Yaro.
The arrested persons are Musa Garba Abubakar (Engr.) aka Muhadis Musa Bin Haddad, Umar Khalil Muhammed and Mohammed Yakubu Tahir aka Mallam Yaro.
The DSS also arrested three persons who are members of an extremist cell under the coordination of Yakubu, with affiliation to the proscribed extremist group, Ansaru, and have been perfecting plans to travel to Sudan for terrorist training with other radical elements of the group. They are Armaya’u Yakubu, aka Ali Tekwando, Yakubu Sule, and Usman Ibrahim.
In a release signed by one Tony Opuiyo of the DSS, the Service has continued to record positive milestones in strategic and tactical operations embarked upon across the country.
He said: “On March 2, 2016, one Musa Garba Abubakar (Engr) aka Muhadis Musa Bin Haddad, was arrested at Jos, Plateau State, during a special tactical operation by the Service. Abubakar is a major gun fabricator, arms-runner and a covert linkman/courier for the Boko Haram group.
“During his arrest, 2 pistols, 80 rounds of live ammunition and several sensitive documents were recovered from him. In a bid to employ propaganda to manipulate the international community against the efforts of the Federal Government, in the ongoing war against terror in the North-west region, Musa had approached a foreign mission in Nigeria for logistics and financial support to fight the Boko Haram. However, unknown to the mission, he is actually an unauthorised gun-maker/runner with intent for mischief and communal strife in the North Central region.
“In furtherance of exploited leads, this Service apprehended other suspected associates of the gun-runner, namely: Umar Khalil Muhammed and Mohammed Yakubu Tahir, aka Mallam Yaro, on 2nd March, 2016. Muhammed was arrested at Layin Oscar in Jos South LGA, while Tahir was picked up at Mista Ali area, along Jos-Zaria road in Bassa LGA. The duo are accomplices and active marketers of Abubakar and his products to criminal elements in the North-central region of the country.”
Continuing, the statement read: “In strengthening its counter-terrorism strategy, the Service also arrested one Armaya’u Yakubu aka Ali Tekwando, Yakubu Sukle and Usman Ibrahim on March 3, 2016, at Hayin Danmani area in Kaduna metropolis.
“The trio are members of an extremist cell under the coordination of Yakubu, with affiliation to the proscribed extremist group, Ansaru and have been perfecting plans to travel to Sudan, for terrorist training with other radical elements of the group.”
The Service re-emphasised its resolve to sustain the fight against organised vices and criminalities by terrorists, kidnappers, fraudsters and other deviant elements in the country.
It also urged law abiding Nigerians and indeed, all residents to continue to support law enforcement/security agencies, with proactive and actionable intelligence, for the sustenance of peace, law and order.
It also urged law abiding Nigerians and indeed, all residents to continue to support law enforcement/security agencies, with proactive and actionable intelligence, for the sustenance of peace, law and order.
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