Breaking: DSS Arrests Boko Haram’s Spiritual Leader

Abuja - The Department of State Services (DSS) has
arrested a number of suspects during ongoing
operations to rid the country of criminal syndicates
and terrorists.

Among those arrested is Mudaisiru Jibrin, said to
be the spiritual leader to a newly-uncovered Boko
Haram cell in Kano.

He is alleged to be the mastermind of the shooting
of some students at Government Secondary School
(GSS), Mamudo village near Potiskum, Yobe State,
in 2013.

More than 40 students were killed.
Another suspect Aikhoje Moses, who has allegedly
been threatening members of the diplomatic
community, has been arrested at Azagha by-pass
off the Benin–Asaba Expressway in Edo State.

Moses had threatened particularly the Consular-
Generals of Switzerland and Denmark and their
Embassies in Nigeria, warning them to leave the
country.

At Kinkinau area in Unguwar Mu’azu of Kaduna
metropolis, the DSS arrested one Mukhtar Tijani, a
notorious Boko Haram fighter and three of his
accomplices namely, Isiaku Salihu, Abdullahi Isah,
and Hindu Isah.

DSS said the suspects were apprehended while
perfecting arrangements for major coordinated
attacks on selected targets and locations in Kaduna
State.

Three members of the ANSARU terrorist group
hibernating in Kogi State were apprehended by the
service.

These have been named as Abdullahi, Abdulmumuni
Sadio and Ahmad Salihu.

They have been arrested while making arrangements
to launch attacks on some selected targets in Edo
and Kogi States, before allegedly escaping to join
ISIS in Libya.

Meanwhile, following the spate of gruesome killing
and kidnap incidents in Benue State, DSS arrested
one Terfa Jirgba and two of his accomplices,
namely Terzungee Kwaghaondo and Mathias Aende
in Benue State.

He is said to be an active ally and gang member of
Terwase Agwaza, a notorious kidnapper who runs a
kidnapping and criminal network in the state.

“The arrests of major criminal masterminds in
Benue and other adjourning states will continue until
these criminal gangs are routed and made to face
justice,” said Tony Opuioyo, DSS spokesperson.

He urged the general public to remain vigilant and
alert to developments in their immediate environs,
and to support security and law enforcement
agencies, with critical information on suspicious
persons and groups, for the sustenance of relative
peace across the country. – CAJ News

- CAJ News