Between 20 And 50 Boko Haram Suspects Nabbed In Enugu
Between 20 and 50 suspected Boko
Haram members were apprehended at
Obollo Afor, Udenu Local Government
Area of Enugu State, on June 25, 2014,
Wednesday.
A group of suspected terrorists were travelling
in a commercial luxury bus of a popular
private commercial company, when it was
stopped by security operatives.
According to Punch, a team of the National
Task Force on Small Arms was responsible for
stopping the bus, plate number AKD816XG.
The arrest of 20 suspects was confirmed by
its reporter.
At the same time, reports by DailyTrust state
that 50 suspected terrorists were in the bus.
Bags with army uniforms, some weapons and
other items have been allegedly recovered by
the security operatives.
Related: 486 Boko Haram Suspects
Arrested In Abia State
However, the Police Commissioner of Enugu
State, Mohammed Abubakar, did not
comment on the development, said he was
yet to be briefed on the incident.
Abubakar made this remark at the state
police headquarters while parading four
criminals, who were arrested for car
snatching.
The group of suspects was transferred to
Enugu police HQ, and they have not been
released by the time of filing the present
report.
The police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ebere
Maraizu, said the men are being interrogated.
The police intends to know the exact route of
their travel and why they had had
camouflaged uniforms in their possession.
Related: 87 Boko Haram Members
Identified Among The 486 Travellers
Arrested In Abia
At the same time, the spokesperson said the
suspects might be traders, not terrorists.
However, he abstained from explaining why
traders need military uniforms.
It would be recalled that some of suspected
Boko Haram members arrested in Abia
between June 15-16, 2014, have provided
valuable information to the military. However,
many Nigerians, socio-political group tagged
mass arrest as unlawful, insisted that
travelling Northerners were traders.
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