A
sting operation by DSS in Kano Sunday led to the arrest of top Boko Haram
commander, and 20 others suspects. The Director, Kano local office of DSS,
Alhassan
Muhammad told reporters in Kano that the 48 hours operation
neutralized what would have been a bloody Eid Fitr in Kano recent history.
Alhassan
Muhammad disclosed that the combat operations was jointly carried out by the police,
and his men led to the arrest of the unit commander of Boko Haram who was also
in charge of Kano, Kaduna and Sokoto.
He explained that the commander also
arrested alongside 30 other suspects while planning coordinated attacks during
Sallah festivity in Kano and other major Northern cities. Alhassan said ” 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”. The Director 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.
He said “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”.
Alhassan explained that the proactive move helped averted the dastardly planned
to lay ambush on Kano and other cities in this period of Sallah Celebrations”.
The Director revealed that “arms and ammunition, primed Improvised Explosive
Devices, IEDs were recovered from the suspects’ hideouts in the state.”
Vanguard reported that the State Security Service, SSS, on Friday, said it
uncovered a plot by suspected terrorists to attack Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto and
Maiduguri during the Eid-el-Fitr celebration. The secret service said two
suspects — Yusuf Adamu and Abdulmuminu Haladu — were arrested in Sokoto in
connection with the plot in the early hours of Friday.
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