The
Department of State Services (DSS) wish to inform the public that in
line with its statutory mandate, and avowed commitment to national
security, the Service has continued to record positive milestones in
strategic and tactical operations embarked upon across the country.
On
2nd March, 2016, one Musa Garba ABUBAKAR (Engr) aka Muhadis Musa Bin
HADDAD, was arrested at Jos, Plateau State, during a special tactical
operation by the Service. ABUBAKAR is a major gun fabricator,
arms-runner and a covert linkman/courier for the Boko Haram group.
During
his arrest, 2 pistols, 80 rounds of live ammunition and several
sensitive documents were recovered from him. 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-West region, MUSA had approached a foreign mission in Nigeria for
logistics and financial support to fight the Boko Haram. 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.
In
furtherance of exploited leads, this Service apprehended other
suspected associates of the gun-runner, namely: Umar Khalil MUHAMMED and
Mohammed Yakubu TAHIR aka Mallam YARO, on 2nd March, 2016. MUHAMMED was
arrested at Layin Oscar in Jos South LGA, while TAHIR was picked up at
Mista Ali area, along Jos-Zaria road in Bassa LGA. The duo are
accomplices and active marketers of ABUBAKAR and his products to
criminal elements in the North-Central region of the Country.
In
strengthening its counter-terrorism strategy, the Service also arrested
one Armaya’u YAKUBU aka Ali Tekwando, Yakubu SULE and Usman IBRAHIM on
3rd March, 2016, at Hayin Danmani area in Kaduna metropolis. The trio
were members of an extremist cell under the coordination of YAKUBU, with
affiliation to the proscribed extremist group, ANSARU and have been
perfecting plans to travel to Sudan, for terrorist training with other
radical elements of the group.
The Service wish
to reemphasize its resolve to sustain the fight against organized vices
and criminalities by terrorists, kidnappers, fraudsters and other
deviant elements in the Country. The Service also wish to urge law
abiding Nigerians and indeed, all residents to continue to support law
enforcement/security agencies, with proactive and actionable
intelligence, for the sustenance of peace, law and order.
TONY OPUIYO
Department of State Services,
Abuja
5th March, 2016
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