The department of state services
says it is sustaining its tactical and
counter-terrorism operations
which have yielded major
successes with the arrest of
terrorists and other criminals
across the country.
In a statement from the service
said those arrested include the
mastermind of the kidnap of three
Australian staff of Lafarge Cement
Company, for which his gang
received ransom of one hundred
and fifty million naira.
Similarly, members of a notorious
kidnap gang operating around the
Abuja-Kaduna axis were arrested
at Lafia, Nasarawa state. The gang
had earlier kidnapped five Igbo
women and collected the sum of
thirteen million naira as ransom.
They were while planning a high
profile kidnap in Abuja.
Another kidnapping gang which
has been terrorizing the south-east
zone was busted by the service at
Aba in Abia state.
In response to the regrouping of
boko haram elements in Kano
state, the service in collaboration
with the military carried out
coordinated operations, which led
to the apprehension of two high
profile members of the sect;
Ibrahim Ustaz Abubakar and Idris
Audu (aka AYA).
Audu is an IED specialist who was
being groomed to penetrate
security agencies in the country
and had already perfected plans to
join the army in the next
recruitment, before his arrest.
says it is sustaining its tactical and
counter-terrorism operations
which have yielded major
successes with the arrest of
terrorists and other criminals
across the country.
In a statement from the service
said those arrested include the
mastermind of the kidnap of three
Australian staff of Lafarge Cement
Company, for which his gang
received ransom of one hundred
and fifty million naira.
Similarly, members of a notorious
kidnap gang operating around the
Abuja-Kaduna axis were arrested
at Lafia, Nasarawa state. The gang
had earlier kidnapped five Igbo
women and collected the sum of
thirteen million naira as ransom.
They were while planning a high
profile kidnap in Abuja.
Another kidnapping gang which
has been terrorizing the south-east
zone was busted by the service at
Aba in Abia state.
In response to the regrouping of
boko haram elements in Kano
state, the service in collaboration
with the military carried out
coordinated operations, which led
to the apprehension of two high
profile members of the sect;
Ibrahim Ustaz Abubakar and Idris
Audu (aka AYA).
Audu is an IED specialist who was
being groomed to penetrate
security agencies in the country
and had already perfected plans to
join the army in the next
recruitment, before his arrest.