Minister of Special Duties, Alhaji Kabiru Tanimu Turak
The Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of
Security Challenges in the North Thursday held talks with 104 suspected
members of Boko Haram sect, who were detained in Lagos prisons, in
continuation of efforts by the federal government to tackle the
insecurity in the area.
It was gathered that both the Kirikiri Medium and Maximum Prisons,
Apapa, Lagos, currently house about 104 suspected members of the Islamic
sect.
However, it was not clear whether the suspects, 34 of whom were
detained at the medium prison and 70 at the maximum section were
arrested in Lagos alone and other parts of the country.
The committee met with the suspects just as Vice-President Namadi Sambo
assured Nigerians and the international community that the federal
government through its multi-pronged approach, is winning the fight
against the Islamic militants whose terrorist activities have led to the
death of some 4,000 people since they began their insurgency in 2009.
Investigations also revealed that about 16 persons suspected to be
suicide bombers, including their armourer, were arrested in a joint raid
by the operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) and other
security agencies in Lagos the last three months ago.
The suspects were arrested at the Ijora-Badia area of the state, after
the sect’s plan to simultaneously bomb 16 designated landmarks in Lagos,
was blown open. Their plan to establish terrorist cells in the
South-west region with Lagos as headquarters, was also foiled.
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