Emmanuel Ukudolo
Abuja, Nigeria, March 5, 2016 – The Department of State Services (DSS) said it has arrested one Musa Garba aka Engineer Muhadis Musa Bin, a major gun fabricator for the terrorist group, Boko Haram.
In a statement signed by Tony Opuiyo, the DSS said that during his arrest, two 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”, DSS said.
The DSS noted that In furtherance of exploited leads, this service apprehended other suspects and 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”, DSS said.
It added that 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 groups”, it said and reemphasize its resolve to sustain the fight against organized vices and criminalities by terrorists, kidnappers, fraudsters and other deviant elements in the Country.
It called on 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.
