Boko Haram’s gun fabricator nabbed in jos

A gun fabricator for the dreaded insurgent group, Boko Haram, Garba Abubakar, has been arrested by the Department of State Services, DSS, the Service said in a statement on Saturday.

According to a statement signed by its spokeman, Tony Opuiyo, the DSS said the suspect was arrested in Jos, Plateau State in line with the Service’s statutory mandate, and avowed commitment to national security.

Described as an engineer, Abubakar, who was arrested on March 2, 2016, was said to be “a major gun fabricator, arms-runner and a covert linkman/courier for the Boko Haram group.”

The statement also claimed that two pistols, 80 rounds of live ammunition and several sensitive documents were recovered from him during the arrest.

Throwing more light on the activities of the suspect, the DSS said in a bid to employ propaganda to manipulate the international community against the efforts of the Federal Government in the ongoing war against terror in the North-East region, the suspect approached a foreign mission in Nigeria for logistics and financial support to fight the Boko Haram.

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“However, unknown to the mission, he is actually an unauthorized gun-maker/runner with intent for mischief and communal strife in the North-Central region,” the statement said.

The DSS, in the statement, also announced the arrest of two suspected associates of the gun fabricator, Umar Khalil Muhammed and Mohammed Yakubu Tahir, aka Mallam Yaro.

Opuiyo, who said the two were also arrested on March 2, disclosed that Muhammed was arrested at Layin Oscar in Jos South LGA, while Tahir was apprehended up at Mista Ali area, along Jos-Zaria road in Bassa LGA.

Opuiyo said, “The duo are accomplices and active marketers of Abubakar and his products to criminal elements in the North-Central region of the Country.”

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