SSS Arrested 5 Boko Haram Suspects And A University Lecturer

The State Security Service (SSS) today in Abuja paraded five suspected

Boko Haram members alleged to have planned deadly attacks on Igala,

Kogi State.

Among the suspects were Dr. Mohammad Nazeef Yunus, an Assistant

Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Kogi State University. He

was said to be the Spiritual Leader and Coordinator for Boko Haram in

the State, and the leader of the gang.

Nazeef, who was born in Idah, Kogi State, attended the Arabic Central

Primary School in that town, and El-Kanemi College, Maiduguri. He also

studied at the Islamic School, University of Medina, in Saudi Arabia

and served in the National Youth Service Corp in 1995 at Al-Iman

Secondary School, Dogon Dutse, in Jos.

Nazeef earned a Masters Degree in Arabic from the University of Jos.

Just last year, he earned a Ph.D in Islamic Studies from Kogi State

University.

Also arrested by the SSS were Umar Musa (Instructor), Mustapha Yusuf,

Ismaila Yunusa, Mohammed Nasir, and Ibrahim Isa.

SSS spokesperson Marilyn Ogar said the suspects were planning to carry

out an attack on Igala Land but were arrested at Zuba white mosque

near Abuja on their way to Zambisa in Maiduguri for training. They

were also going to install Sharia in Kogi State.

Umar Musa (Head of Operations/Instructor) confessed publicly that he

was employed by Boko Haram as Instructor after he lost his job with

the state teaching hospital, and was taken to the Sambisa camp of the

sect for a week's training on handling weapons. He said he was

deployed to the education unit of the camp as Munzi (instructor) and

placed on a monthly salary of N50,000. He further stated that he and

Yusuf later returned from Sambisa and re-united with Nazeef in Kogi

State where they plotted to carry out violent attacks in Igala land.

He maintained that Nazeef appointed him the Head of Operations and

munzir.

Mustapha Yusuf (Armourer/Chief Courier) and Ismaila Abdulazeez (Foot

soldier) confessed that that Nazeef was their teacher who teaches them

Jihad and Islamic Sharia.

Ogar told newsmen that the suspects will soon be charged to court

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