University Lecturer Who Recruits For Boko Haram Paraded By The DSS

A university lecturer, Dr. Muhammad Nazeef Yunus,
who allegedly acts as Recruitment Co-ordinator of
the Boko Haram sect and four other members have
been arrested, as they were plotting to launch
violent attacks in Igalaland, Kogi State.
Parading the five suspected members of the terror
group in Abuja, the DSS said the Spiritual Leader
and Recruitment Coordinator of the sect, Dr
Muhammad Nazeef Yunus, was until his arrest, an
assistant lecturer in the Department of Islamic
Studies, Kogi State University, Ayingba in Kogi
State.
The DSS said the Yunus taught Arabic and Islamic
Studies at the university.
Other alleged members of the sect paraded were
Umar Musa, Head of Operations/Instructor; Munzir
Mustapha Yusuf, a.k.a Habib, Armourer/Chief
courier; Ismail Abdulazeez, foot soldier and Ibrahim
Isa, a.k.a ‘One in town’ another foot soldier.
The Deputy Director, Public Relations, Department
of State Service, Marilyn Ogar, who paraded the
suspected Boko Haram members said their plot was
botched when two members of the sect who were
on their way to Borno State for training in weapons
handling were arrested at Zuba, on the outskirts of
the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.
According to Ogar, “the determination of security
forces to rid Nigeria of all acts of terror has
continued to yield favourable results as this Service
uncovered a Boko Haram cell in Kogi State.
All the paraded suspects, except the varsity
lecturer, explained to the media the level of their
involvement in the Boko Haram insurgency and the
plan to attack Igala.
Dr. Yunus, however, feigned ignorance of the
planned attacks, insisting that his involvement was
a frame-up.
“My Islamic preaching had always been against the
activities of the Boko Haram sects, but I was
shocked when the other suspects insisted that I
was a member and the one that recruited them
into the sect. I have never been a member of Boko
Haram for one minute in my life, I even preach
against them,” he said.
One of the suspects, Mustapha Yusuf who was
allegedly trained at Sambisa camp in Maiduguri,
Borno State said “the university lecturer appointed
me as the armourer and chief courier of the group
and handed two AK-47 rifles with 30 rounds of live
ammunition to me for safe keeping after I returned
to Kogi State shortly after military invasion of our
camp in Borno State”.
The other two foot soldiers also confessed that Dr.
Yunus indoctrinated them into the Boko Haram sect
by preaching to them when they approached him to
help them secure admission into the Kogi State
University, Ayingba.
In her briefing, the DSS spokeswoman enjoined all
Nigerians to be vigilant. “We want to enjoin all
Nigerians to be vigilant and continue to cooperate
with security agencies through the provision of
useful information of suspicious activities within
their immediate environment.
“The war on terror is still on. This Service in
collaboration with other security agencies will not
rest on their oars until we rid our society of all
criminality. We must all remember that we are not
terrorists, we are Nigerians.”
Ogar also urged parents who send their children for
Islamic teaching after school, to be very careful of
the people they choose as their teachers.