BREAKING: DSS Arrests Gun Maker For Boko Haram

A man believed to a major gun fabricator, arms-runner and a covert linkman/courier for the Boko Haram group has been apprehended by the Department of State Services, DSS.

A statement issued on Saturday in Abuja by Tony Opuiyo for the DSS disclosed that the suspect, identified as Musa Garba Abubakar, fondly called Muhadis Musa Bin Haddad, was nabbed in Jos, Plateau State, on Wednesday, March 2, 2016, during a special tactical operation by the Service.

The DSS explained in the statement that “2 pistols, 80 rounds of live ammunition and several sensitive documents were recovered” from the suspect during his arrest.

It was explained that 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.”

“In furtherance of exploited leads, this Service apprehended other suspected 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,” the DSS said.

It was also disclosed that one Armaya’u Yakubu aka Ali Tekwando, Yakubu Sule and Usman Ibrahim were also nabbed by the DSS on Thursday, March 3, 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 group,” the Nigeria’s secret police said.

The DSS reemphasize its resolve to sustain the fight against organized vices and criminalities by terrorists, kidnappers, fraudsters and other deviant elements in Nigeria, while urging 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.