A man identified as the
“spiritual leader” of Boko Haram in Kano has been arrested, together with other
insurgents plotting to carry out attacks in the country, security authorities
said Monday.
The man, whose name was
given as Mudasiru Jibrin, was arrested on July 17 at a Boko Haram detention
center uncovered by the secret police operatives in Kano.
Preliminary investigation
had proved that Jibrin hatched the plan of shooting some high school students
near Potiskum city of Nigeria’s northeastern state of Yobe three years ago, the
national Department of Security Services said in a statement.
Prior to the Boko Haram
leader’s arrest, the secret police had on July 8 arrested a notorious Boko
Haram fighter and three of his accomplices while perfecting arrangements for
major coordinated attacks on selected locations in the northwestern Kaduna
state, the statement added.
Boko Haram has been blamed
for some 20,000 deaths and displacing of more than 2.6 million people in
Nigeria since 2009.
(Source: XINHUA)
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