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More details have emerged about how the escapee suspected Boko Haram kingpin, Kabiru Sokoto, was re-arrested by the State Security Service, Nigeria’s secret police.

Mr. Sokoto, we gathered, was arrested in the early hours of Friday in an emerging Boko Haram cell in a remote village in Taraba state by a high calibre squad of the State Security Services. A source gave the name of the village as Muntum Biu but that could not be independently confirmed as at the time of this report.

He was brought into Abuja at 2.45 this afternoon, heavily guarded by fully armed operatives.

Sources within the service say the secret police infiltrated the Boko Haram cell in Abaji, Abuja, shortly after Mr. Sokoto fled, gathering a lot of information about his movement.

After tracing him to Taraba, the agency deployed its most effective security gadgets to track the suspect down.

Mr. Sokoto was arrested with few of the sect after a gun battle with of the sect in the sect’s budding training camp in Taraba.

The source said a Boko Haram cell, led by Mr. Sokoto, was establishing a base in the state before his arrest.

He is currently being held in one of the state security’s interrogation centres in Abuja. He will be transferred to the military for safe keeping.

Mr. Sokoto was arrested at the Borno State governor’s lodge in Asokoro, Abuja, alongside a serving military officer, was taken to Abaji on Sunday by police officers investigating the case to search a house believed to be owned by him.

He subsequently escaped from police custody in Abaji Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), his residence, where he was taken for routine house search.

Following his escape, Zakari Biu, the head of the Zonal Command 7 of the Nigeria Police Force handling Boko Haram investigation in the Crime Investigation Department was suspended by the IGP and subsequently placed under house arrest. He oversees the team that lost Mr. Sokoto. He is currently in detention in an undisclosed location.

The other junior police officers in the team that lost the Mr. Sokoto were also been arrested and detained.

President Goodluck Jonathan supposedly gave the then Inspector-General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, a 24-hour ultimatum to produce the Boko Haram suspect. He failed and was later retired.

Mr. Sokoto is considered a key official of the Boko Haram sect, founded by Mohammed Yusuf in 2002, to congregate people committed to the propagation of Islam and Jihad. The organisation is an extremist sect that seeks to abolish the secular system of government and establish a Sharia system in the country.

Since July 2009, when Boko Haram launched its violent attacks, it has claimed responsibility for bombing churches, police stations, military facilities, banks, and beer parlours, in northern Nigeria, as well as the United Nations building and police headquarters in Abuja.

https://www.timesng.com/news/3731-how-kabiru-sokoto-was-arrested.html

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No muslim terrorists can fight and win the fedet government for ten years without surpport from state or local government. Shetima is one of the sponsors of Islam'ic Boko-Haram terrorists in Nigeria conclusion from evidences in the media. Boko-Haram terrorists commanders don't live in Sambisa forest, they live with Chibok girls and other kidnapped Christian girls in government house. If you don't know this, examine your head and mind.

all this running around chasing this guy is with tax payers money.
now you want to arrest him again and keep feeding him with whose money?
how much is one bullet? compared to all the money wasted on this guy?

please inject 5 bullets into his heart and let his matter be closed once and for all.

And so? What is wrong with that?

You guys are desperate to find anything that will ruin Kashim Shettima.

When drug lord meets terrorist lord, the combo go be "world scatter! "

Indomie shildren, abeg no ask me Wetin be world scatter

Is he or is he not a terrorist?
Answer before I slap nonsense commot for your face

Splitmind:
And so? What is wrong with that?

You guys are desperate to find anything that will ruin Kashim Shettima.

Splitmind:
And so? What is wrong with that?

You guys are desperate to find anything that will ruin Kashim Shettima.

Boko haram member spotted

Splitmind:
And so? What is wrong with that?

You guys are desperate to find anything that will ruin Kashim Shettima.

Islam'ic Terrorists too are now ing Nairaland. Nawa o.

Shettima is the architect behind the Chibok abductions as his govt was the one which ordered all state schools in the troubled Chibok area to resume schools during the holidays under the excuse of prepping for the WAEC examinations despite WAEC already writing to the state govt that the exams will not hold in the state owing to insecurity .

The school principal of Chibok Girls secondary school, who sent an ultimatum to parents of the majority Christian school girls to have their wards back in school or forget writing the exams was nowhere to be found on the premises on the day of the attack despite her official residence located within the school grounds. This evil Muslim woman's testimony was so full of holes when questioned by Patience Jonathan that the former First lady had to scream out "there is God ohh" which the opposition weaponized as a meme mocking the first lady to distract from what her public inquiry was able to unearth. The school principal disappeared into thin air after being excused to gather more facts on the number of girls abducted. She became a person of interests to the authorities when she went underground and revelations from parents of the girls exposed that she threatened to bar any of the young girls from writing the final exams if they didn't report to campus during the school break. This evil heartless woman will later be reintegrated, rehabilitated and promoted to the position of Commissioner for Education by the Shettima government immediately Buhari was sworn in .

Shettima is a terrorist sympathiser, financier and henchman .

Qtrpst4:
Is he or is he not a terrorist?
Answer before I slap nonsense commot for your face

Even if that happened in the past, let us learn to move on from this minor issue.

Splitmind:


Even if that happened in the past, let us learn to move on from this minor issue.

Did you just call terrorism a minor issue?

He's a terrorist bombing churches

Splitmind:


Even if that happened in the past, let us learn to move on from this minor issue.

You say this is a minor issue?

Are you mad?

A terrorist enabler is running for VP and you say this is a minor issue?

I pray Tinubu is rigged in and this terrorist takes him out and replaces him as substantive president .

You BAT rabies urchins are so far gone in your hubris to call a very serious issue of enabling the escape of a wanted terrorist fugitive that committed the most heinous crime if terrorist bombings that killed over 200 people a minor issue?

We have obstruction of justice, aiding and abating, criminal conspiracy, links to terrorism, enabling and engaging with terrorists and being an accessory to a terrorist attack, mass murder.

And you say we should sweep it away as a minor issue?

Are you mad?

You call terrorism a minor issue?

That a terrorist is trying to become a VP you call it a minor issue? Is that not what you guys said when we condemed buhari for his anticident and you guys said it is now in the past, did buhari really change from his well known bigotry, tribalism, terrorism and mediocrity? You these tifnubu people must think us as being stupid

Splitmind:


Even if that happened in the past, let us learn to move on from this minor issue.

Qtrpst4:
You call terrorism a minor issue?

That a terrorist is trying to become a VP you call it a minor issue? Is that not what you guys said when we condemed buhari for his anticident and you guys said it is now in the past, did buhari really change from his well known bigotry, tribalism, terrorism and mediocrity? You these tifnubu people must think us as being stupid

And so? Did any terrorist bomb your house?

When you wailers are tired you will sit down.

Medicine after death.

A picture of Tinubu's running mate, Shettima with alleged Boko Haram

Vote that brown-toothed drug peddler at ur own peril. He's a desperate old mad man, who simply wants to fulfill his ambition. He knows he's close to the grave, so he couldn't care less what happens to Nigeria, as long as he achieves his selfish aim.

Of course APC government has always been associated with terrorist elements

We are happy to read most of these terrorists are being arrested in less than a week.

We said that last week.

Splitmind:
And so? What is wrong with that?

You guys are desperate to find anything that will ruin Kashim Shettima.

Hmmm merchants of fake news have been unleashed to destroy Shetimas integrity & reputation. Let them vote for Peter Obi their christian candidate, we vote for our Muslim candidate, for we don't have to insult one another & spread hate.

Now his benefactor then wants to take charge of the same country they have been terrorising.

Where is the display of Competence when a Notorious Drug Baron cannot pick the correct running mate ?

He settled for a known Boko Haram Sympathizer and Major Sponsor. Where is the Sense and Competence in that decision ?

Tinubu's only Competence is in Drug Smuggling and the Stealing of money from the Lagos State Treasury

Enough is Enough : APC must Go

You are just helping Tinubu market his Vice President to Northern extremist



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Wowww

Tinubu running mate is a clueless Bokoharam apologist, Tinubu is a goner. Congratulations to Atiku Abubakar in advance