Agency Arrests Four Boko Haram Suspects In Damaturu

Agency Arrests Four Boko Haram Suspects In Damaturu
By Mohammed Abubakar, Damaturu
 The Yobe State Emergency Management
 Agency, Executive Secretary, Musa Jidawa, has
 confirmed the arrest of four
 insurgents who attempted to
 enter the Pompomari Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Damaturu.
 He disclosed this to newsmen
 in Damaturu, the Yobe
 State capital.
 According to him, two of the suspects
 disguised as visitors, who came to see their relations at the camp.
 Jidawa further explained that the two others, who came separately after were equally
 arrested while trying to gain entry into the camp.
 The agency chief however said, “security
 operatives and some IDPs
 screening entries and exit from
 the camp identified the suspects, who were later confirmed as
 insurgents by the IDPs from
 their communities.”
He also disclosed that the last suspect came to the camp where his father, mother, wife and child
 were all taking refuge.
 The SEMA chief, while referring to one of the suspects, said, “A member of his Turo Kura village identified the
 suspect and raised an alarm,
 saying he belongs to the sect and
 the suspect’s father, also an IDP at the camp, confirmed it, which led to his arrest.”
The suspect’s father, who
 pleaded not to be identified, told journalists that he narrowly
 escaped from his son in the village when he targeted to kill him.
 The father said, “I have nothing
 to do with him; he should be
 arrested and killed just like he
 killed others.”
The SEMA secretary said the agency had reinforced security
 checks and means of
 identification to ensure that
 non-members do not slip into
 the camp.
 The Boko Haram members have in the past carried out attacks in IDP camps in the north-eastern states.