Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) says it has arrested an alleged spokesman for the Boko Haram Islamist sect, Ali Sanda Umar Konduga, aka Usman Al-Zawahiri.
Announcing Konduga’s arrest at a news conference here Monday, SSS Deputy Director for Public Relations Marilyn Ogar said he was picked up on Nov 3 in Borno in northeastern Nigeria during a joint security operation.
She alleged that Konduga was behind several recent threatening text messages and added that he was also a former political thug. Ogar said his arrest confirmed the position of the SSS that some of the Boko Haram extremists had political patronage and sponsorship.
She said Konduga had confessed during questioning that he was recruited by a party stalwart in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, and that it was the politician who gave him the pseudonym “Usman Al-Zawahiri”.
Ogar also said that the suspect confessed that one of his political sponsors promised him 10 million Naira (US$1 = about 159 Naira) but that he died while in the process of delivering the first tranche of N5 million.
She added the suspect claimed that consequently, a serving member of Nigeria’s National Assembly, took over the running of his activities.
0 comments:
Post a Comment