The Department of State Service (DSS) has arrested a high profile Boko Haram member as well as an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) specialist in Kano, and 20 other members of criminal gang across the country.
The DSS said in a statement signed in Sunday by Mr. Tony Opuiyo that as part of its commitment towards improving security across the country, it has “sustained tactical and counter-terrorism operations which have yielded major successes with the arrest of terrorists and other criminals across the country”.
Opuiyo stated: “In response to the regrouping of Boko Haram elements in Kano State, the Service in concert with the military, carried out coordinated operations in the State which led to the apprehension of two high profile members of the sect, namely Ibrahim Ustaz Abubakar and Idris Audu (aka AYA).
According to him, Audu is an IED specialist who was being groomed to penetrate security agencies in the country.
“Audu had already perfected plans to seek for recruitment into the next recruitment scheme of the Nigeria Army, before his arrest,” he revealed.
In the same vein, he said that the Service on August 22, 2016, nabbed a kidnap kingpin named Samuel Asuquo, at Nasarawa Bakoko village in Cross River State.
He stated that Asuquo was the mastermind of the kidnap of three Australian staff of Lafarge Cement Company, for which his gang received ransom of N150m.
Similarly, he said, on August 30, 2016, the trio of Bamaiyi Mustapha (aka Dan Borno), Aminu Isa and Hassan Shehu, members of a notorious kidnap gang operating around the Abuja-Kaduna axis, were arrested at Lafia, Nasarawa State.
Opuiyo said that the gang had earlier kidnapped five Igbo women and collected the sum of Thirteen Million Naira (N13m) as ransom, adding that “they were subsequently arrested by the Service while planning a high profile kidnap in Abuja”.
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