Boko Haram Spokesman nabbed

Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist militants, dressed in a black turban and a white gown and bullet-proof vest - holding an AK 47 rifle. In his 40-minute audio message, Shekau reportedly blamed the deaths of "innocent civilians" on Nigeria's security forces but threatened to carry out a bombing campaign against Nigeria's secondary schools and universities - unless security forces stopped what he claimed was a series of recent attacks on Islamic schools or madrassas in the northern town of Maiduguri.AFP

OFFICIALS of the State Security Service, SSS, in Borno State, yesterday, confirmed that they have dealt dreaded sect, Boko Haram, a major blow by arresting the spokesman of the group Abul Qaqa. He was reportedly arrested in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
The arrest, according to Vanguard findings, was effected via GPS tracking of the top Boko Haram chieftain. It was learnt that the SSS has flown Qaqa to Abuja for further interrogation.

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A top official of the SSS in Borno told Vanguard on telephone that: “We have finally picked him up and he is currently in our custody; you can report that as a confirmed development”.
Also confirming the arrest of Abul- Qaqa, one of the sect members in a telephone interview with newsmen in Maiduguri said: ‘’Our spokesman Abul- Qaqa was arrested by security operatives yesterday.”
He, however, did not state where in Maiduguri the arrest was effected  but he said, in Hausa: Nakira ku in gaya muku cewa an kama Mallam Qaqa, meaning “I called to tell you that security agencies have arrested one of our scholars, Mallam Qaqa.” The first spokesman of Boko Haram, Ali Sanda Umar Kondoga alias Usman Alzawahiri was arrested on  November 3, last year.

The arrest of Qaqa came against the backdrop of claims in Kaduna yesterday by the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, that the ultimatum by the Boko Haram Islamic sect on southerners living in the North to quit was in reaction to an earlier order by South-South militants on Northerners to quit their area.

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