The Department of State Security DSS have arrested a notorious member of
the Boko Haram terrorists, Khalid AL-Barnawi, alias Kafuri/ Naziru/
Alhaji Yahaya/Mallam Dauda/Alhaji Tanimu.
A statement by the spokesman for the DSS, Tony Opuiyo, says Khalid
AL-Barnawi was apprehended on April 1st in Lokoja, Kogi State, while
hiding under a false cover.
AL-BARNAWI was a founding member of the Jama’at Ahl
as-Sunnah lid Da’wah Wa’l-Jihad (Boko Haram) and later the Amir of the
break-away faction, Jama’at Ansarul Muslimim Fi Biladi Sudan (JAMBS).
Khalid AL-BARNAWI is a trained terrorist commander, who has been
coordinating terrorist activities in Nigeria, while talent-spotting and
recruiting vulnerable young and able Nigerians for terrorist training by
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in North African States and the
Middle-East.
He was involved in many terrorist attacks in States of the Federation,
including Bauchi, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Sokoto and
FCT-Abuja. This resulted in the killing and maiming of innocent citizens
of this Country. ALBARNAWI is also responsible for the bombing of the
United Nations building in Abuja, on 26th August, 2011; the kidnapping
of two European civil engineers in Kebbi State in May, 2011, and their
subsequent murder in Sokoto State; the kidnap of a German engineer,
Edgar RAUPACH in January, 2012, the kidnap and murder of seven
expatriate staff of Setraco Construction Company at Jama’are, in Bauchi
State in February, 2013, the attack of Nigerian troops at Okene in Kogi
State, while on transit to Abuja for an official assignment.
He would soon be charged to Court to face his charges after
investigation is completed.
In another development, the Service has uncovered the heinous role
played by members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), in the
abduction/kidnap of five Hausa-Fulani residents, namely Mohammed
GAINAKO, Ibrahim MOHAMMED, Idris YAKUBU, and Isa Mohammed RAGO at
Isuikwuato LGA in Abia State.
The abducted men were later discovered at the Umuanyi forest, Abia
State, where they were suspected to have been killed by their abductors
and buried in shallow graves, amidst fifty (50) other shallow graves of
unidentified persons.
Arrest and investigation conducted so far, revealed that elements within
the IPOB, carried out this dastardly action. It is pertinent therefore
to alert the general public that IPOB, is gradually showing its true
divisive colour and objectives, while steadily embarking on gruesome
actions in a bid to ignite ethnic terrorism and mistrust amongst
non-indigenes in the South-East region and other parts of the country.
Following this act, tension is currently rife among communal
stakeholders in the State with possibilities of spillover to other parts
of country.
DSS warns that the Service will not hesitate to act decisively within
its statutory mandate to ensure that the sponsors and perpetrators of
this action are apprehended and prosecuted for their crime. Tony OPUIYO
DSS, Abuja. 9th April, 2016
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