This
Service wish to inform the general public that further to its efforts
to stem the tide of terrorism in the Country, it has recorded another
major breakthrough in the arrest of one Mohammed USMAN, widely known as
Khalid AL-BARNAWI, alias KAFURI/ NAZIRU/ ALHAJI YAHAYA/MALLAM
DAUDA/ALHAJI TANIMU.
2. Khalid
AL-BARNAWI was apprehended by this Service on 1st April, 2016, in
Lokoja, Kogi State, while hiding under a false cover. AL-BARNAWI was a
founding member of the Jama'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid Da'wah Wa'l-Jihad (Boko
Haram) and later the Amir of the break-away faction, Jama'at Ansarul
Muslimim Fi Biladi Sudan (JAMBS).
3. Khalid
AL-BARNAWI is a trained terrorist commander, who has been coordinating
terrorist activities in Nigeria, while talent-spotting and recruiting
vulnerable young and able Nigerians for terrorist training by Al-Qaeda
in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in North African States and the
Middle-East.
4. Subject
was involved in many terrorist attacks in States of the Federation,
including Bauchi, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Sokoto and
FCT-Abuja. This resulted in the killing and maiming of innocent citizens
of this Country. ALBARNAWI is also responsible for the bombing of the
United Nations building in Abuja, on 26th August, 2011; the kidnapping
of two European civil engineers in Kebbi State in May, 2011, and their
subsequent murder in Sokoto State; the kidnap of a German engineer,
Edgar RAUPACH in January, 2012, the kidnap and murder of seven
expatriate staff of Setraco Construction Company at Jama'are, in Bauchi
State in February, 2013, the attack of Nigerian troops at Okene in Kogi
State, while on transit to Abuja for an official assignment.
5. Meanwhile, subject would soon be charged to Court to face his charges after investigation is completed.
6. This
arrest is a major milestone in the counter-terrorism fight of this
Service. This arrest has strengthened the Service’s resolve that no
matter how long and far perpetrators of crime and their sponsors may
run, this Service in collaboration with other sister security agencies,
will bring them to justice.
7. In
another development, the Service has uncovered the heinous role played
by members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), in the
abduction/kidnap of five Hausa-Fulani residents, namely Mohammed
GAINAKO, Ibrahim MOHAMMED, Idris YAKUBU, and Isa Mohammed RAGO at
Isuikwuato LGA in Abia State.
8. The
abducted men were later discovered at the Umuanyi forest, Abia State,
where they were suspected to have been killed by their abductors and
buried in shallow graves, amidst fifty (50) other shallow graves of
unidentified persons. Arrest and investigation conducted so far,
revealed that elements within the IPOB, carried out this dastardly
action.
9. It
is pertinent therefore to alert the general public that IPOB, is
gradually showing its true divisive colour and objectives, while
steadily embarking on gruesome actions in a bid to ignite ethnic
terrorism and mistrust amongst non-indigenes in the South-East region
and other parts of the country. Following this act, tension is currently
rife among communal stakeholders in the State with possibilities of
spillover to other parts of country.
10. Against
the foregoing, the Service will not hesitate to act decisively within
its statutory mandate to ensure that the sponsors and perpetrators of
this action are apprehended and prosecuted for their crime. Accordingly,
law-abiding citizens are enjoined to go about their civil duties and
businesses freely, as efforts are being intensified by security agencies
to maintain law and order in the State and across the Federation.
THANK YOU,
Tony OPUIYO
DSS, Abuja.
9th April, 2016
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