By EMMANUEL UDOM
Operatives of the State Security Services (SSS) in Nigeria have done it again.
They have tracked down five suspected Boko Haram members in Kogi State, south-central
Nigeria.
Channels TV, identified the suspects as:
Muhammad Nazeef, Umar Musa, Mustapha Yusuf, Ismaila Abdulazez, and Ibrahim Isah.
These suspects, according to the
report are from Kogi state and attend Islamic schools in the state.
Parts of the report read: cell's alleged spiritual leader, Muhammad
Nazeef, was arrested in Jos in Plateau state.
However, the other four were arrested in Nigeria's capital,
Abuja. Nazeef is a lecturer in the Department for Islamic Studies at Kogi State
University who was educated at Saudi Arabia's Islamic University of Medina. He denied involvement in the suspected terror cell:
I have never met these people, never in my life. But I know
this man (pointing at Mr. Musa). I used to see him in some Islamic activities;
I even have one of my messages. He attended twice and I stopped seeing him when
I (went) against Boko Haram.
The other four prisoners maintain
that Mr. Nazeef is their cell leader.
The discovery of the Boko Haram cell
is noteworthy because Kogi, like most of southern Nigeria, has so far been
spared the brunt of the Boko Haram insurgency.
The terror group's activities to
date have mainly been focused in the under-governed north. In the
northeastern states of Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe, the government recently extended emergency rule.
Yet Boko Haram is more than capable
of attacking farther south, as the terror group showed in August 2011 when a
suicide bomber attacked the United Nations headquarters in
Abuja, killing at least 18 people and wounding scores more.
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