Just In--- Police Arrest Suspected Boko Haram Bomb Maker
A suspected Boko Haram bomb maker and nine accomplices have been arrested by the Nigerian security operatives.
The man, identified as Ba’na, suspected to be behind the fabrication of
explosives used in a series of Boko Haram suicide attacks, was arrested
in Yobe State, a senior police officer told Agence France Presse on
Tuesday, Punch
reports The suspected bomb maker was held in the Arikime area of
Potiskum after some weeks of surveillance, said the officer, who was
involved in the Sunday arrest.
Potiskum, the commercial capital of Yobe State, has been hit by a wave
of bombings in recent months, including a suicide attack on a secondary
school in November in which 58 people were killed. On January 18, at
least four people died in an attack on a bus station, while the previous
weekend two women wearing suicide vests killed six people at a market
and two died in a car bombing outside a police station.
The police officer, who asked not to be named because he was not
authorised to speak to the media, said Ba’na was in his mid-thirties and
had admitted making the bombs.
“He confessed to being responsible for the manufacture of the explosives
used in at least three suicide attacks and the car explosion outside
the divisional police station,” he added. Nine alleged accomplices were
also arrested in a hideout in the town hours after Ba’na’s arrest. Ba’na
allegedly made the explosives used in the November school attack, the
January 10 car bombing and January 11 market blasts, the source added.
He was said to have moved to Potiskum from the state capital Damaturu
three years ago and worked as a stonemason and water vendor before
getting married. “He was quite good at his disguise and his mason and
water vending jobs gave him perfect cover,” the officer said. But the
Nigeria Police has said it did not have any information on the suspect
or purported arrest. “I don’t have any information on that,” the police
spokesman, Emmanuel Ojukwu, said on Tuesday when contacted by our
correspondent.
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