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Boko Haram’s Spiritual Leader Nabbed By Security Operatives

The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested a number of suspects including Mudaisiru Jibrin, said to be a Boko Haram spiritual leader, during ongoing operations to rid the country of criminal syndicates and terrorists.

This comes few days after 10 persons were killed by the Boko Haram extremists near the Chibok community in Borno State.

Mudaisiru Jibrin is said to be the spiritual leader to a newly-uncovered Boko Haram cell in Kano.

He is alleged to be the mastermind of the shooting of some students at Government Secondary School (GSS), Mamudo village near Potiskum, Yobe State, in 2013.

More than 40 students were killed.

Another suspect Aikhoje Moses, who has allegedly been threatening members of the diplomatic community, has been arrested at Azagha by-pass off the Benin–Asaba Expressway in Edo State.

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Moses had threatened particularly the Consular-Generals of Switzerland and Denmark and their Embassies in Nigeria, warning them to leave the country.

At Kinkinau area in Unguwar Mu’azu of Kaduna metropolis, the DSS arrested one Mukhtar Tijani, a notorious Boko Haram fighter and three of his accomplices namely, Isiaku Salihu, Abdullahi Isah, and Hindu Isah.

DSS said the suspects were apprehended while perfecting arrangements for major coordinated attacks on selected targets and locations in Kaduna State.

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