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Suspected terrorists, Alhaji Kwoire Muhammad (left) and Buba Magaji being paraded in Sokoto. 

Sokoto NSCSC rearrests int’l terrorist who disappeared from custody

Suspected terrorists, Alhaji Kwoire Muhammad (left) and Buba Magaji being paraded in Sokoto.

BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto

The Sokoto State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Friday paraded suspected international terrorist, Alhaji Kwoire Muhammad alongside one of his alleged accomplices, Buba Magaji.

Parading the duo, Sokoto NSCDC Commandant, Muhammad Salah Dada stressed that they are so notorious in their nefarious enterprise that they also have over 200 others in their group.

Commandant Salah Dada, who said that Alhaji Kwoire Muhammad was first arrested the first month he assumed duty in Sokoto for banditry and other offences, added however, that, Kwoire vanished into thin air from their custody courtesy of his alleged diabolical powers.

Speaking to newsmen on the rearrest of Kwoire, Commandant Salah Dada said, he personally led the operation in which they had to sleep in the bush till about 4am before the successful rearrest of the wanted man.

“We succeeded in arresting a very, very notorious bandit that has his own camp of more than 200 men.

“We arrested same man the first month I assumed duty in Sokoto state, but we did not have the intel that he is diabolical hence within moments, he disappeared into thin air from our grip. But we were able to rearrest him in the bush of Silame local government area, Sokoto state,” he narrated.

Continuing Saleh Dada noted that some of Kwoire’s accomplices called to offer N10 million bribe for his release. “We accepted the offer so that they can come over and be arrested to add to the numerical figure of those arrested in connection with such crimes but unfortunately, maybe they read the signs and never showed up,” he said.

“I can assure you that those arrested are high profile bandits. And if more investigation is conducted, they might be linked to the Al- Ansaru because of his influence in the bush,” the Commandant noted.

Ansaru is one of the Al-Qaeda linked terrorist groups called “al-Ansaral Muslimeen fi Bilad Al Sudan” that have been accused of carrying out various terrorist attacks.

While noting that they also arrested Buba Magaji who is one of the accomplices, Commandant Salah Dada said, “These terrorists are the ones terrorising the local governments of Tureta, Dange Shuni and parts of Silame in Sokoto state.

“They also operate across border to Niger Republic, and other countries for their nefarious activities,” he said.

In their confessional statements, Buba Magaji said he only participated in kidnapping twice alongside Alhaji Kwoire. He further admitted that he was aware of banditry operations they carried out in Kurdula and Dabagi in Dange Shuni local government area where they collected one million and four million naira respectively as ransom.

Magaji further divulged that he was led into the act by a foreigner who rears camels in their village and who provided AK 47 for their operations.

He, however, added that he had repented before his arrest.

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