Dismissed Army Officer Training Boko Haram Insurgents Arrested In Kano– Police
The police in Kano State has announced the arrest of a dismissed military officer who had been training Boko Haram insurgents after a gun battle in Kano.
Kano State Police Commissioner, Rabiu Yusuf, told newsmen that the arrest followed by intelligence reports which his officers have been gathering about the movement of the Boko Haram members from Sambisa forest in Borno State.
He recalled that the exchange of fire occurred at about 2 am today, Sunday, at Gaya in Ungogo Local Government Area, adding that the dismissed army officer and other members of Boko Haram were among those who escaped from Sambisa forest in Borno from the military dislodged the sect.
He said that the dismissed military officer, who later escaped, had threw an improvised explosive device at the police and started to shoot before the police fought back.
“The police came under attack by the terrorists group at their location but were overpowered by the tactical task force. Three police officers sustained injuries and three of the Boko Haram gunned down.
” One of the three police officers injured during the battle has been discharged from the hospital after treatment.
“ A arrested suspects are 20 years old Abba Muhammad of Niger Republic, 22 years old Usman Buhari from Bornoand 46 years old Illiyasu Abdullahi from Kano .
” The two arrested women are Gezawa Yau and Ladidi Yunusa .”
Items recovered included an AK47 rifle, 49 rounds of ammunition, IEDs, two sets of Air Force uniforms, one military boot, one laptop, one iPad, and some pictures of the suspects wearing military uniform.
Meanwhile, 43 Boko Haram insurgents who recently surrendered to troops of Operation Lafiya Dole were today, Saturday, air lifted to join other surrendered insurgents in Gombe where they are to immediately commence a de-radicalization and rehabilitation programme under the auspices of Operation Safe Corridor.
Speaking while handing over the surrendered insurgents to Operation Safe Corridor, the Theatre Commander Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru gave assurance that the penitent insurgents will be given a new lease of life as they commence their journey back into the civil society through the de-radicalization and rehabilitation processes.
He advised them to embrace and undertake the programme whole heartedly to enable them benefit and positively reorient their views about life and the society in general.
It will be recalled that over 70 Boko Haram insurgents had earlier this month, surrendered to troops of Operation Lafiya Dole in the North East, thus, taking advantage of the window of grace provided by the Federal Government for insurgents who are willing to give up terrorism and turn a new leaf to surrender to any military location closest to them.
General Attahiru called on all other insurgents to abandon the futile struggle and reject the hypocrisy of the Boko Haram leadership who live in affluence, while their foot soldiers die in hunger.
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Late Head of State, General Sani Abacha’s Chief Security Officer (CSO), retired Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, has said that intelligent reports have proved that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu is being sponsored to distabilise Nigeria by politicians whose names would soon be made public.
The leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has declared that the capital of the proposed Biafra republic will be in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Many parts of Asaba, the Delta State capital have been submerged by flood following a heavy down pour, today, 
A 36-year-old Ghanaian prostitute, Katrine Obenewaa has narrated the story of how she killed over 100 men and rendered no fewer than 70 impotent.
Shekau And Buratai’s Marching Order, By Yakubu Musa
That Abubakar Shekau, the kingpin of Boko Haram terror group is the Gabbar Singh of our time – a wanted man, jina aur marna (dead or alive) – is something we all know.
But what is new is the marching order given to the army by their chief, General Yusuf Buratai to capture the villain in 40 days’ time. This is a target that can be put on the scale of SMART Objectives and the outcome comfortably predicted.
A noble goal like this should be specific, and this certainly ticks the box in this respect. And of course, it’s very measurable, as all that the army need to do is to parade a living Shekau or his body to the public and not his look alike or a duplicate.
One of the costly strategic communication blunders of the army in the past was the insistence that Shekau was killed and therefore the country was merely dealing with his duplicate (s). Some of us were never convinced. And Shekau succeeded in convincing the army itself that he was not only alive but freely indulging in organizing his crimes.
Is the marching order achievable? Yes, surely.
The army boss should not be this confident without having a reliable ‘intel’ at his disposal. My assumption is that the wanted man is within the reach of Burutai’s men. Yet this is purely my assumption as we have some 39 days to find out.
Is this realistic? Yes.
Shekau is no doubt a very slippery fellow. His elusiveness has helped him to evade captures and assassination attempts in the past. But so was Bin Laden and other terror leaders before him. What we have now is more pressure piled on Burutai’s men to pull a rabbit out of hat, or more literarily to pull Shekau out of Sambisa.
And lastly, the 40 days’ timeline says everything about the time. We have early September to review the whole SMARTness of the marching orders and see if it was ever a smart decision by Burutai.
Right now, my fingers are not only crossed but up in prayers, seeking Allah’s help for those assigned with this tall order to succeed.
Of course, killing Shekau is not the end of the gang as the camp of Abu Musab Albarnawi, the youthful son of late spiritual leader of the group, Muhammed Yusuf, is said to have more followers than Shekau’s camp, but it will be a huge morale booster for the army in this protracted war.[myad]