An alleged strategic accomplice of Khalid Al-Barnawi has been arrested and paraded by the Department of State Security, DSS.
The suspect, one Bello Danhajiya, a Fulani from Zamfara State, was shown to the media on Wednesday. He is presumed to be second in command.
It was disclosed that he confessed his involvement in gun-running, cattle rustling and other nefarious criminal activities principally on the directives of his commander, Al-Barnawi.
Last week, the DSS arrested Al-Barnawi in a facility in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital. He is the head of Ansaru and also second in command to the wanted Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau.
The Department of State Service, DSS, Nigeria’s secret police, may have apprehended one of the right men of wanted Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, Khalid Barnawi. According to tweets from Ahmad Salkida, a journalist used by Boko Haram to convey information to the Nigerian government and the public, Barnawi was…
A new leader has been appointed for the Boko Haram terrorists group, which has its stronghold in north east Nigeria. Boko Haram, which pledged its allegiance to the dreadful Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group, now has Abu Musab al-Barnawi as its new leader. Al-Barnawi replaces Abubakar Shekau, whose whereabouts has…
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