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JTF arrests suspected Boko Haram leader

Operatives of the Joint Task Force (JTF) arrested a man suspected to be a high-profile operational commander of the extremist group, Boko Haram, along with … Continue reading JTF arrests suspected Boko Haram leader


Operatives of the Joint Task Force (JTF) arrested a man suspected to be a high-profile operational commander of the extremist group, Boko Haram, along with his wife and five children, during a raid at his residence in Farawa quarters, Kumbotso local Government area, Kano state.
The operation commander was identified by the JTF as Suleiman Mohammed, a Yoruba tribe member from Ogbomosho in Osun State, South West Nigeria.

Security sources said that the suspect and his entire family has been flown to Abuja for interrogation.

Sophisticated weapons were recovered during the raid, including a rifle, 10 improvised explosive devices (IEDs), three pistols, and 1,000 rounds of live ammunition.

No shots were fired during the raid.

The Kano Police Commissioner; Ibrahim Idris who confirmed the arrest told journalists that “details of the suspect were not for public consumption for now.”

The arrest of Mr. Mohammed coincided with the recovery of seven trucks of empty used soft drink cans from an uncompleted building in the Kano metropolis.

The Police Commissioner said that the cans were veritable components in making low calibre IED’s and enjoined the public to always endeavour to destroy such  cans to frustrate criminal elements from converting them into parts of making explosives.

Boko Haram, whose official name in Arabic translates as “People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad,” is agitating for the enforcement of Islamic sharia law, at least in the Muslim areas of the north.

Recently, the islamic sect Boko Haram offered to open dialogue with President Goodluck Jonathan but gave little or no  room for compromise regarding its main mission.