Boko Haram Shift Attention To South-East As 486 Suspects Are Arrested In Abia State

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June 17, 2014 12:29 PM

The dreaded Boko Haram sect is gradually moving to the southern parts of the country as a large number of them were nabbed in Abia State.

According to the reports, the suspects were arrested along the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway by soldiers attached to the 144 battalion of the Nigerian Army, Asa, Ukwa West LGA, Abia State.

The suspects which includes 8 women, the report continued, were being conveyed in 33 buses when they were stopped at the road between Aro-Ngwa and Imo Gate along the expressway.

It also stated that some of the buses conveying other suspected insurgents sped off on sighting the military men.

It is also reported that the Commander of the Battalion, Lt. Colonel Rasheed Omolori, while addressing newsmen, said said two buses escaped with their occupants. He said the incident had been reported to defence headquarters in Abuja.

The Abia State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Dr. Eze Chikamnayo, said the sheer size of the movement made it suspicious, adding that none of the suspects could identify their destination.

He also wondered how such “a long convoy” was not intercepted before it reached Abia State. The army and other security agencies in the state were actively investigating the suspects, he said.

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