By; Benedict Sunday, Kaduna.
Some members of the Boko Haram terrorists pretending to
be mad people have been arrested in Niger state by
personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp
(NSCDC).
A statement issued by the Niger State Public Relation Officer of the NSCDC, Ibrahim Yahaya said the men were
arrested by the Corp under cover agents who have being trailing the activities of the two men.
He said those arrested were Usman Al -Amin and Sanusi
Ibrahim Bala. Both men are twenty years of age. The statement said preliminary findings showed that they were Bokoharam members.
The Corp spokesman stated that one of the suspects Al-Amin always claimed to be mad during the day and became
normal person at night, but was monitored when he always make calls to some strange persons in the night.
Ibrahim stated that at that point the men discovered that he was not a lunatic and that the two were undergoing questioning that is helping the Corp in tracking down some other suspects.
According to him they will be handed over to military authority in the state for further interrogation in the fight against Boko haram terrorists fleeing the north east..
He listed some of the exhibits found with them to include: two mobile phones, one table knife, one memory card 16GB, one Sim card, one flash drive and one dog chain, and that the materials recovered was helping the command in it’s investigation.
The statement quoted the state Commandant Philip Ayuba as advising the public on the need to be very vigilant as some of the fleeing Boko Haram terrorist who were dislodge from camp zero in Sambisa forest are now finding their ways into different states of the federation.
He also stated that the security agencies in the state will
continue to share security information and synergize
together so as to make sure that the state is free from any form of crime and criminalities.
