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Two suspected ISIS commanders arrested in Abuja
The Department of State Services (DSS) says that it has arrested two Islamic State in West Africa commanders in Kukuntu village, Gwagwalada, Abuja.
DSS announced the development in a statement on Thursday, giving the names of the suspects as Bashiru Adams and Rufai Sajo.
Although the DSS said in a statement issued by an operative of the service, Mr Tony Opuiyo, that the suspects were arrested on May 5, after special operations on identified targets, the disclosure of the arrest came days after the Federal Government beefed up security around airports over threats by ISIS.
This was also as the security outfit claimed to have also on April 28, arrested one Umar Dogo, a suspected member of ISWA at Muda Lawal market in Bauchi.
According to Opuiyo, the suspects had concluded plans to carry out heinous violent attacks on innocent persons in the area in collaboration with Boko Haram.
The agency added that it also arrested two experts in Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), Adamu Hassan, aka Bale and Abubakr Abubakar aka Alhaji or Buba following intelligence reports.
He further hinted that two other members of Boko Haram, Mohammed Saleh, aka Azrak and Iliyasu Abubakar, aka Ruwa, were also arrested on April 12 and 19 at at Gassol and Ardo Local Government Areas of Taraba.
He added that two members of the dreaded Basalube kidnap group, Usman, aka Siddi and Ibrahim Muhammed, aka Ganaja, were as well arrested on June 17 at Karu village in Abuja.
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He said that in one of the operations of the DSS, one of the group`s infamous members, Tambaya Umar was arrested alongside Ibrahim Ali, Abubakar Mohammed, Aliyu Manu and Umar Mohammed for their complicity in the group’s numerous criminal acts on April 24 at Odigie village, Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State.
On March 27, he said, the DSS arrested five members of a kidnap syndicate at Calabar, whose names he gave as Simeon Paul, Emmanuel Etim, Eric Out, Famous Oleke and Felix Eshet.
Among items recovered from them included, one AK-47 Rifle, three empty AK-47 Magazines, 38 rounds of live ammunition, two live rounds of 9mm ammunition, one Mossberg pump action rifle and 15 live cartridges of ammunition, among others.
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