Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence
Corps on Sunday said it had arrested a 56-year-old Boko Haram kingpin in
the Aski Uba Local Government Area of Borno State.
The Commandant of the NSCDC in Borno
State, Mr. Ibrahim Abdullahi, stated this in an interview with the News
Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri.
Abdullahi said the suspect was apprehended at Mussa village last week.
“Our men have made remarkable progress by arresting a Boko Haram kingpin.
“The notorious kingpin was said to be a
recruiter as well as supplier of arms and IEDs (Improvised Explosive
Devices) to the Boko Haram terrorists.
“He confessed that his three children were also arrowheads of the Boko Haram sect,’’ he said.
Abdullahi added that the command had since handed over the suspect to the Army for further investigation.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government has
signed a tripartite agreement with the United Nations High Commission
for Refugees and the Republic of Cameroon for the return of Nigerian
refugees who had fled to Cameroon for safety and are currently taking
refuge in the neighbouring country.
According to the government, Nigerian
refugees in Cameroon are staying there voluntarily and in a dignified
manner, adding that there are about 80,000 displaced Nigerians currently
taking refuge the country.
The Director-General, National Emergency
Management Agency, Sani Sidi, disclosed this when the African Union
Humanitarian Mission, led by the Commissioner of Political Affairs, Dr.
Aisha Abdullahi, visited the headquarters of NEMA in Abuja.
Sidi, in a statement by the agency’s
Senior Information Officer, Mr. Sani Datti, on Sunday, stated that the
Federal Government had been making efforts to cater for all the basic
needs of the affected refugees.
He explained that the Federal Government
as well as the governments of states affected by the insurgency, United
Nations Organisations, International non-Governmental Organisations and
some private sector players, had done a lot in the past four years to
manage the large number of Internally Displaced Persons in the
North-East.
“We have moved from the emergency response stage to recovery and resettlement of the IDPs,” he said.
Sidi urged the visiting commissioner to
use her offices at the African Union to secure more assistance for the
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