A Joint Task Force team comprising the
personnel of the police, Department of State Services, the military and
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has been combing the Federal
Capital Territory, Lagos and other towns for Boko Haram suspects and
their sponsors.
It was learnt that the Task Force, which
was set up by the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, had been
mandated to carry out massive operations against the sect members who
were suspected to have infiltrated different parts of the country.
The DSS had on Friday, arraigned in
court, about 45 terror suspects who were arrested for plotting to bomb
Dolphin Estate in Lagos. The suspects were subsequently remanded in
KiriKiri prisons by an Isolo Magistrate Court.
As part of the operation to apprehend
fleeing terror suspects, the Task Force last Wednesday, raided a black
spot at Nyanya, a satellite town in the FCT, where it arrested about 30
suspects.
Nyanya and Kuje, FCT recorded twin bomb
blasts on October 2, 2015, in which about 20 people lost their lives and
many others were injured.
Our
correspondent gathered that the Task Force was ‘processing the
suspects’ after which identified terrorists among them would be made to
face the law.
The Force Public Relations Officer,
Olabisi Kolawole, told our correspondent on Saturday that the Task Force
was set up to go after fleeing Boko Haram insurgents, adding that the
team has been carrying out operations in different parts of the country. Read more Punch
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