Nigeria’s security forces appear to be gaining grounds in the fight
against militancy in the northern part of the country as they announced
the capture of a top commander of Boko Haram during a raid on the home
of a high-level national politician in Maiduguri.
Lt. Col Sagir Musa, spokesman for the Joint Task Force (JTF) said in a
terse statement sent to media this evening, that Shuaibu Mohammed Bama
had been picked up and is in custody. However he declined to name the
national politician.
Islamist sect Boko Haram has its strongest base in Maiduguri.The official statement said: “The JTF have been successful in their
ongoing anti-terror operations. A high-profile Boko Haram commander, one
Shuaibu Mohammed Bama, who has been on the list of wanted terrorists,
was arrested by task force troops in a serving politician’s house. He is
in the custody of the JTF and assisting in the investigation and has
since made startling revelations.”
Although Sagir did not state the relationship between the captured
commander and late Habibu Bama, who was killed in Damaturu, and the name
of the serving Nigerian lawmaker, sources said the suspect was arrested
in a high brow area in Maiduguri axis of Borno State.
Another source said that crack security team have been trailing Bama,
from Kano to Kaduna and finally Maiduguri where he was barbed on
Thursday in Cordon and Search Operation style, that have armed to teeth
combat soldiers who were well position to repel any counter from the
Boko Haram’s sect.
