Scores of suspected members of the fundamentalist group, Boko Haram
sect, have been rounded up and arrested by the military and youth
vigilante in Maiduguri.
A member of the youth vigilante group, Yusuf Yunus, told ThisDay
on phone in Maiduguri on Wednesday that the suspects who had disguised
themselves as internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Bama were
arrested by the military and their men from one of the camps reserved
for IDPs in the town.
He said that the
suspected insurgents arrived Maiduguri along with those that fled Bama
during the attack of Boko Haram on the town a few months back.
Yunus said: "The arrested suspected Boko Haram Insurgents, who fled Bama
along with IDPs and had formed a syndicate along Bama road at Yanshayi
opposite Tashan Bama in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, were rounded
up by soldiers.
He said those that were arrested were brought
to the headquarters of sector 3 around Gidan Madara 'Milk shop' on
Tuesday evening and were later taken to Giwa Barracks within the town.
"Guns were seen in the possession of some of them which made some other
people at the camp to tip off the military and the volunteer youth who
subsequently rounded them up," he said.
Credit: ThisDay
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