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Forty Eight hours after the killing of a vigilante youth by a policeman
in Maiduguri, Borno State, members of the state’s Vigilance Youth Group,
BVYG, have arrested 19 Boko Haram terror suspects in five villages of
Konduga Local Government Area.
The arrest of the suspects last
Monday, according to a vigilante youth, Ibrahim Yakub, was made in a
three-day “search and hunt” of fleeing Boko Haram sect members at
Konduga town and neighbouring villages of the council.
Konduga,
which is 40 kilometres East of Maiduguri, the state capital, was where
55 people, including eight policemen and soldiers, were killed in August
by the insurgents at a place of worship.
Speaking on the arrest
yesterday in Maiduguri, one of the youths, Abubakar Goni Adam, said the
19 terror suspects were pursued to the villages of Konduga and
communities bordering Sambisa Games Reserves Forest.
“The fleeing
Boko Haram sect members had been hiding in the forests, but with the
destruction of their training camps and hideouts by Special Operational
Forces of Nigerian Army in June, the sect members fled
to towns and
villages bordering the forests.
“Our members had to intervene and
act in tracking down these people that attack and kill in affected
areas of the state. With the assistance of soldiers and the police, we
are able to arrest 19 suspects along with some rifles and ammunition at
Konduga at the weekend,” he said.
Vanguard also learned that the
arrested suspects were tied with their hands behind their backs before
they were transported to Maiduguri and handed to soldiers of 7 Division
of Nigerian Army yesterday.
Borno State Police Commissioner, Lawal Tanko, also yesterday confirmed the arrests of the terror suspects by the youths.
He said some rifles and ammunition were recovered by youths from the fleeing Boko Haram sect members.
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