The State Security Service (SSS), on Saturday, announced the arrest of Husseini Maitangaran, a top commander of by Islamic State of West Africa (ISWA), otherwise known as Boko Haram. He was arrested in Kano on 31 August. Maitangaran, according to a statement issued by the service, spearheaded several deadly attacks in Kano in 2012.
The statement, signed by SSS spokesman, Tony Opuiyo, said the service arrested other top Boko Haram terrorists, who were part of a foiled plan to disrupt the last Eid-el-Kabir celebrations in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Kano, Kaduna, Niger, Bauchi, Yobe and Borno states. This followed the discovery of an elaborate plan by ISWA terrorists to launch attacks that would have disrupted the Eid-el-Kabir festivities that took place between 1 and 4th September.
According to the SSS, the plan entailed gun attacks and suicide bombing on selected targets in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Kano, Kaduna, Niger, Bauchi, Yobe and Borno states. The Service identified Maitangaran as the mastermind, adding that he had been on the wanted list of the SSS and the Nigerian Army since he coordinated the armed attacks on the office of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) Zone I on January 20, 2012, and other public places in Kano.
The suspect was also said to have been behind bomb attacks on worshippers at the Kano Central Mosque and another on a military formation in Yobe State, which killed over 100 people in 2015. "Under the banner of ISWA, which he belongs, Maitangaran, an Improvised Explosive Devices expert, had been prepping and priming others for the perpetration of suicide bombing attacks carried out by the group in the past within the North-East region," said the SSS.
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Posted: at 10-09-2017 02:32 PM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero
follyflex at 10-09-2017 04:53 PM (7 years ago) (m)
Dis is my Judgement: Send this dirty terrorist and his family to hell by burnt alive and if the man escape OGUN go kill all of na wey free him. Caseclose.
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Posted: at 10-09-2017 04:53 PM (7 years ago) | Upcoming
fineboy77 at 10-09-2017 06:23 PM (7 years ago) (m)
The police in the north no dey present criminals to the press just as it is done in the East and the West?,why be say na only him Boko Haram picture dey here?,where the picture of when dem don arrest am?
What is the color beneath your skin?
Posted: at 10-09-2017 06:23 PM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Which means the military have been killing innocent people/toothless Boko-Haram for such a long time, no reasonable and hard core Boko have been killed, SHAME SHAME
Posted: at 11-09-2017 05:20 AM (7 years ago) | Upcoming
This is serious ooooo..... make I just dey waka pass..... abeg I dey waka pass, I will come and comment later. This one weak me ooooo, well life must goes on. I dey waka come bare
Posted: at 25-09-2017 09:34 AM (7 years ago) | Hero