A Boko Haram
commander and about thirty others have been nabbed after the DSS staged a sting
operation in Kano.
DSS
The
Department of State Security Service, Kano office, said yesterday that in a
sting operation, it arrested a top Boko Haram commander and
30 others suspects,
stating that arms and ammunition, Primed Improvised Explosive Devices,
IEDs were recovered from the suspects’ hideouts, Leadership reports.
Making the
revelation, the DSS Director, Kano local office, Alhassan Muhammad said that
the combat operations, which was jointly carried out by the police, and
operatives of DSS, led to the arrest of the unit commander of Boko Haram who
was also in charge of Kano, Kaduna and Sokoto, alongside 30 other suspects
while planning coordinated attacks during Sallah festivity in Kano and other
major Northern cities.
He explained
that the operations, which lasted for 48 hours, neutralised what would have
been a bloody Eid Fitr in Kano recent history.
Muhammad
said the success story was the outcome of a painstaking effort buoyed by
intelligence gathering and sharing by the police and DSS which helped put more
spots areas at red alert.
In his
words, “we have in our custody about 30 suspected Boko Haram terrorists
including a sector Commandant whom we arrested at Rijiyar Zaki and Dorayi areas
of Kano in just two days.
“Our joint
intelligence gathering and the synergy that existed between all the security
apparatus in Kano give a moral buster to our giant efforts in tracking every
suspicious movements and make it highly difficult for the terrorists to make
any impact”.
Muhammad
noted that the proactive move helped averted the dastardly planned to lay
ambush on Kano and other cities in this period of Sallah Celebrations.
Recall that
the Service had revealed on Friday that it uncovered a plot by suspected
terrorists to attack Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto and Maiduguri during the Eid-el-Fitr
celebration, while Yusuf Adamu and Abdulmuminu Haladu were arrested.
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