The Acting Director, Army Public
Relations, Col. Sani Usman, said on Tuesday that troops had arrested a
financier of the Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State.
Usman said in a statement that that the man, identified as Mohammed Maina, was arrested in Bama with N1m cash on him.
He said that the suspect was also a supplier of kola nuts and other stimulants to the insurgents.
The Army spokesman said that the
suspect, a native of Shuari Village in Bama Local Government Area, might
have been collecting monetary contributions from Boko Haram
sympathisers along the Maiduguri-Dikwa-Kulli axis of the state.
Usman stated also that the soldiers of
the 112 Battalion and some Special Forces carried out a joint raid on
Boko Haram’s camps at Bulungwa Naibe in Dikwa Local Government Area of
Borno State on Monday and recovered some items from them.
He stated also that several of the insurgents were killed in the operation.
He said that the items recovered from
them included “one Buffalo vehicle mounted with an anti-aircraft gun, a
rocket-propelled grenade, two machine guns and one sub-machine gun, five
AK-47, one Fabrique nationale rifle and two sewing machines used for
sewing uniforms by the terrorists.”
Usman also said that soldiers had
arrested three suspected collaborators of the Boko Haram insurgents
following the arrest of Maina.
Usman said that Maina had been making
useful statements which led to the arrest of the three suspected
collaborators in Maiduguri.
He gave the names of those arrested as
Jikana Alhaji Goni, 29, Alhaji Musa Modu, 37, and Alhaji Aba’ana Na
Sule, aged 40, all of Hausari Ward, Maiduguri.
He said that those arrested were being interrogated by the military.
source: punchng.com
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