SSS Nabs Suspected Sponsor Of 486 Boko Haram Suspects Arrested In Abia

IN a boost against terror, the State Security Service(SSS) has arrested and is  interrogating a prominent man in Bauchi, who is suspected to be the sponsor of 486 alleged terror elements apprehended in Aba, Abia State.

Besides, the Plateau State Police Command said yesterday that it has uncovered an  illegal training camps for  armed men  in  Riyom local government of the State.

In a related development, troops of 7 Division of Nigerian Army and members of Civilian Joint Task Force (CTJF) in Borno State were said to have killed over 200 Boko Haram insurgents  and destroyed over 70 motorcycles used by the bandits  at Mainti village in  Bama council of the state.

  The  SSS Assistant Director,  (Public Affairs) Marilyn Ogar told journalists yesterday at the scene of the Wednesday bombing in Abuja that the security services would not conceal the identity of anyone   involved in  insurgency .

She said,  “there is no need for us to continue to hide people any longer, I’m pained that a journalist was caught in this particular incident. So for me,  whether  you are a Muslim or Christian, woman or man, from anywhere or anybody, old or young, we  should begin to condemn insurgency and other criminalities.

I want to use this opportunity to say that the main man that sent the 486 terror suspects  have being apprehended in Bauchi. And is undergoing interrogation.”

Also, the Police spokesman, Frank Mba, who was also at the scene of the blast , reinstated that the casualty figure has not changed, stressing  that he cannot authoritatively say if foreigners were caught in the blast, but Ogar said two Turkish nationals were confirmed injured and were  receiving treatment at the National Hospital.

A Superintendent of Police, Babayemi Akomolede, disclosed in Jos  the existence of the illegal training camp for militants  during the 8th meeting of the Plateau Peace Architecture Dialogue series.

Some communities in Riyom council raised alarm that they had discovered an illegal training camp for unknown gunmen around Rim village. They therefore called on the police to protect them before the gunmen unleash terror on the communities.

According to military sources in Maiduguri and the Civilian JTF,  the successful joint operation against the insurgents was

facilitated by  Bama  residents and its traditional ruler  by identifying the  terrorists’ hideouts.

THE GUARDIAN

Army Arrest 486 Suspected Insurgents in Abia

486 suspect from 16years upward, moving in a convoy of 35 Hummer buses has been arrested by  Soldiers from the Asa Military Base of 14 Brigade, Ohafia Barracks, Abia State, Sunday including eight girls. The arrest was made same day bombs were uncovered and defused in a church in neighbouring Imo State. while two of the buses were said to have escaped arrest.

Report reaching us from our news desk has it that the suspected insurgents were said to be going to Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital in search of work.
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Cross section of Suspected Boko-haram Insurgence arrested between Aro-Ngwa and Imo gate along Enugu-Portharcort Express way in Abia state by the Nigerian Army attached to the state, insert are their (33) buses.

The suspects were arrested at about 2 am when their vehicles were intercepted by soldiers between Arungwa Junction on the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway and Imo Gate, the Abia State and Rivers State boundary.

According to Abia State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Eze Chikamnayo, who briefed journalists, yesterday at the military base in Asa, Ukwa West Local Government Area of the state, where they were being detained, the suspects are aged from 16 years upwards.

Chikamnayo who was accompanied during the briefing by the Commander in-charge of the battalion, Lt. Col. Rasheed Omolori, who also confirmed the arrest, said that the suspects allegedly came from Kano, Taraba and Jigawa states.

Lt. Col. Omolori, who however declined further comments on the arrest, said that a report had been forwarded to Army Headquarters, Abuja.

The commissioner, however, said that further investigation would assist in unraveling the true mission of the suspects but insisted that “the movement was suspicious”.

Chikamnayo commended the Army and other security agencies in the state for their vigilance and urged them not to relent.

Some of the vehicles which have been impounded by the Army authorities have the number plates: Jigawa RNG 98XA; Osun RLG 176XA; Kano AF 411 DAL; Lagos BDG 487 XK; Abuja EP 86 ABC and Bauchi ZAK 48 XA, among others.