A
group of fake Civilian-JTF operatives who extort funds from family
members of arrested Boko Haram terrorists while dropping the names of
top army generals, including the General Officer Commanding 7 Division,
Maiduguri has been arrested by the army in Maiduguri, Borno State.
Members of the gang were arrested last week by soldiers after ample information about their illicit operations were reported to the army authorities at the 7 Division.
According to the spokesman of the army at the 7 Division, Colonel Tukur Gusau, three members of the notorious gang were arrested and after thorough investigations confessed to the crime.
He said the army in Maiduguri has arrested “three persons, namely, Alhaji Baba of Gwange area, Abubakar Tijjani Lawal of London Chiki and Umar Ali of Gidan Dambe of Maiduguri who claim to be members of Civilian-JTF using the name of the GOC 7 Division, Nigerian Army, Major General Lamidi Adeosun and other senior officers in the theatre of operations to extort funds from relations and friends of those being investigated by the division for terrorism and related offences”.
Describing such actions as criminal and capable of bringing disrepute to the success being recorded by the joint efforts of the Nigerian Army under Major General Adeosun as well as the Nigerian Air Force in the ongoing Operation Lafiya Dole, Colonel Gusau in his two-page statement called on the public to be wary of such criminals and report suspects to the nearest military base or any security outfit.
Army arrests, parades Boko Haram fuel suppliers
The 7 Division, Nigerian Army in Maiduguri yesterday made another breakthrough in the ongoing military efforts to dislodge Boko Haram terrorists when it arrested a gang of individuals whose job is to ensure that the insurgents do not run out of fuel supply in their bush enclaves, officials said.
The group, which used large improvised tanks secretly constructed under vehicles, has a record of delivering at least 3,000 litres of fuel daily to power the vehicles and generating plants of the Boko Haram insurgents.
At the centre of the crime is one Bashir Ali, whose major preoccupation was coming into the town and ensuring that he filled his secret tanks and other containers which he ferried back to the bushes where he delivered same to the Boko Haram masters.
Colonel Tukur Gusau disclosed that the suspect “was arrested at a filling station in Maiduguri while using a Peugeot 504 vehicle fabricated with extended 500 litres tank capacity. During interrogation, Ali confessed that he used the vehicle to ferry up to 3,000 litres of petroleum products everyday”.
Culled from Leadership
Members of the gang were arrested last week by soldiers after ample information about their illicit operations were reported to the army authorities at the 7 Division.
According to the spokesman of the army at the 7 Division, Colonel Tukur Gusau, three members of the notorious gang were arrested and after thorough investigations confessed to the crime.
He said the army in Maiduguri has arrested “three persons, namely, Alhaji Baba of Gwange area, Abubakar Tijjani Lawal of London Chiki and Umar Ali of Gidan Dambe of Maiduguri who claim to be members of Civilian-JTF using the name of the GOC 7 Division, Nigerian Army, Major General Lamidi Adeosun and other senior officers in the theatre of operations to extort funds from relations and friends of those being investigated by the division for terrorism and related offences”.
Describing such actions as criminal and capable of bringing disrepute to the success being recorded by the joint efforts of the Nigerian Army under Major General Adeosun as well as the Nigerian Air Force in the ongoing Operation Lafiya Dole, Colonel Gusau in his two-page statement called on the public to be wary of such criminals and report suspects to the nearest military base or any security outfit.
Army arrests, parades Boko Haram fuel suppliers
The 7 Division, Nigerian Army in Maiduguri yesterday made another breakthrough in the ongoing military efforts to dislodge Boko Haram terrorists when it arrested a gang of individuals whose job is to ensure that the insurgents do not run out of fuel supply in their bush enclaves, officials said.
The group, which used large improvised tanks secretly constructed under vehicles, has a record of delivering at least 3,000 litres of fuel daily to power the vehicles and generating plants of the Boko Haram insurgents.
At the centre of the crime is one Bashir Ali, whose major preoccupation was coming into the town and ensuring that he filled his secret tanks and other containers which he ferried back to the bushes where he delivered same to the Boko Haram masters.
Colonel Tukur Gusau disclosed that the suspect “was arrested at a filling station in Maiduguri while using a Peugeot 504 vehicle fabricated with extended 500 litres tank capacity. During interrogation, Ali confessed that he used the vehicle to ferry up to 3,000 litres of petroleum products everyday”.
Culled from Leadership
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