After weeks of hunting for him, security operatives tracked the fleeing Boko Haram suspect down
More details have emerged about how the escapee suspected Boko Haram kingpin, Kabiru Sokoto, was re-arrested by the State Security Service, Nigeria’s secret police.
Mr. Sokoto, we gathered, was arrested in the early hours of Friday in an emerging Boko Haram cell in a remote village in Taraba state by a high calibre squad of the State Security Services. A source gave the name of the village as Muntum Biu but that could not be independently confirmed as at the time of this report.
Sources within the service say the secret police infiltrated the Boko Haram cell in Abaji, Abuja, shortly after Mr. Sokoto fled, gathering a lot of information about his movement.
After tracing him to Taraba, the agency deployed its most effective security gadgets to track the suspect down.
Mr. Sokoto was arrested with few members of the sect after a gun battle with members of the sect in the sect’s budding training camp in Taraba.
The source said a Boko Haram cell, led by Mr. Sokoto, was establishing a base in the state before his arrest.
He is currently being held in one of the state security’s interrogation centres in Abuja. He will be transferred to the military for safe keeping.
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After all has bn said, this guy must not die in the SSS custody. We demand they show him on tv @ 4pm. His crimes were not committed in secret and we are not in North Korea where evrth is shrouded in utmost secrecy, so d pple demand to see d 2 chieftains on air
Should this be true that Ogbeni Sokoto has been arrested and not one Alagba Gombe, then kudos to the SSS. I feel we have a long way to go on this BH issue.
Mr. Sokoto should be strategically used as a tool to hack down other members of the dreaded sect group. Not yet Uhuru…