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6 Boko Haram suspects arrested in Lagos

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6 Boko Haram suspects arrested in Lagos
At least six suspected Boko Haram members who confessed to be indigenes of Borno State and who disclosed that they fled Bama, Baga and Konduga local government council areas of Borno State, following military operations against insurgents have been arrested.
The suspected terrorists were reportedly nabbed over the weekend by a Civilian Joint Task Force at different locations in Lagos and the six insurgents gave their names as Ibrahim Ali, Abubakar Ahmed, Babagana Blam Ali, Goigoi Kamsalem, Ibrahim Mohammed and Adams.
Head of the civilian Joint Task Force, the Mai- Kanuribe of Lagos and Seriki Hausawa of Ijora Kingdom, Alhaji Mustapha Mohammed, while briefing journalists on how the suspected terrorists were arrested informed that Ibrahim Ali and Babagana Blam Ali, who hail from Bama and Konduga local government areas respectively, were arrested based on intelligence at Isheri-Ojodu Berger, while Goigoi Kamsalem, Ibrahim Mohammed both from Bama and Abubakar Ahmed of Baga council areas, were apprehended at a hideout in Victoria Island.
Mustapha, the Seriki of Hausawa of Ijora Kingdom said the sixth suspect, Adam was apprehended close to a church in Festac Town and also noted that his group of Task Force members which has been in operation for the past five years was spread across 57 local government areas in Lagos and Ogun states in a bid to nip the activities of the terrorist group in the bud.
“One of their leaders that was hiding at a church in FESTAC town was   arrested and handed over to security agents. You know we are from Borno State where these people also hail from and we know their communities. Our people back home do monitor them, and once they leave Maiduguri, we would be alerted so that we can be on the lookout.
“Once they arrive any community in Lagos, our members are always on ground to fish them out base on intelligence report and once they are arrested, we hand them over to security agencies for further investigation and prosecution”, the traditional head of the Kanuris in Lagos explained”. Mustapha said.
He also informed that the arrested suspects based on the directives of security operatives had been sent back to Borno State yesterday morning before the arrival of newsmen.
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