Two top members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect, Zakariyya Yau
and Momodu Bama - aka Abu Saad - the deputy leader of the Boko Haram,
alongside five others have been killed in Adamawa State by the Joint
Military Taskforce, JTF, enforcing the state of emergency imposed on
Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states.
Zakariyya Yau and Momodu
Bama, who have been on the wanted list of the military authorities with a
N10 and N25 million ransom were trailed from their base in Borno State
and arrested in Mubi, Adamawa State, according to the Military
authority.
The Battalion Commander of the Special Operations
Battalion, Lt. Col. Beydi Markus Martins, told newsmen in Mubi, the
operational base of the JTF, that the duo died in the process of
arresting them.
But according to Primium Times, the military said
Abu Saad was killed alongside his father, Abatcha Flatari, who was
described as “one the spiritual mentors” of Boko Haram.
He
was “in charge of indoctrinating child foot soldiers who are mainly
abducted children,” Sagir Musa, spokesman of the Borno JTF, said in the
statement.
According to Vanguard, Col Martins also disclosed
the arrest of suspected Boko Haram members in Mubi last week, five of
whom were paraded, while some were still being interrogated by the
battalion on the level of their involvement in insurgency in Adamawa
State.
The battalion commander also stated that those paraded
yesterday were arrested last week when they attacked the Bureau De
Exchange in Mubi International Market where they carted away millions in
both Nigerian and foreign currencies.
However, some of the
currencies recovered by the JTF were handed over to the chairman of the
Bureau De Exchange in Mubi, after parading the suspects, who had used
four Russian AK47 guns in their operations.
JTF's recovered items
included: 485 live ammunitions, 28 magazines, Dane guns, bows and
arrows, axes, cutlasses, rocket propeller charger, and other dangerous
weapons.
Lt. Col. Martins commended the people of Mubi for their
cooperation and support, without which the achievements recorded by JTF
could not have been possible. He then appealed to members of Adamawa
communities in the state to continue to cooperate with the taskforce.
He also declared that the Nigerian – Cameroonian border is completely secured with the presence of the military in the area. READ MORE: http://news.naij.com/43590.html
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