DSS arrest Boko Haram terrorist planning to attack Abuja, Niger Delta militants, criminals

In facilitation to continuous strategic operations to corrupt the abilities and refuges of criminal groups/syndicates over the Federation, this Service wish to advise the overall population of late effective advancement recorded so far in the drive.


2. On 21st July, 2016, one Jones ABIRI otherwise known as General Akotebe DARIKORO (envisioned) was captured by this Service in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. DARIKORO is the pioneer of the Joint Revolutionary Council of the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force (JNDLF), which has been encouraging separatist propensities in conspiracy with other criminal posses in the Niger Delta locale. DARIKORO, who works under the nom-de-guerre "General-Kill and Bury", has admitted and possessed up to some criminal exercises perpetrated by the JNDLF, which include:

- The vandalism of Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) trunk line in Ogboinbiri, Southern Ijaw LGA and besieging of oil pipeline having a place with Shell Development Company (SPDC) at Brass brook on eighth July, 2016, all in Bayelsa State;

- Threat messages to administrations of NAOC and SPDC requesting for the installment of the entirety of Five Hundred Million Naira (N500m), and Two Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (N250m) individually;

- Threat to dispatch rocket assaults against chose focuses in Abuja including the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock;

- DARIKORO is likewise the brains of the as of late coursed deception of arranged topple of President Muhammadu BUHARI, GCFR, by the military;

3. Essentially, on 21st July 2016, one Stephen MAMAYEBO otherwise known as OSCAR, (envisioned) a suspected aggressor was captured at OMPADEC Primary School in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. MAMAYEBO was captured regarding the abduct of an exile staff of Setraco Construction Company and ensuing homicide of two (2) troopers, to be specific Garba UMAR/Sgt and Bashir KABIRU/Pte, along Ogbia-Nembe street on fifth April, 2016.

4. Besides, on twentieth July, 2016, at Travelers Mosque, along Kaduna-Zaria Highway in Igabi LGA of Kaduna State, the trio of Ismaila SHUAIBU, Kabiru NASIRU and Inusa ABDULLAHI were captured amid a strategic assault by this Service. The trio were individuals from a famous capture group which has been threatening pure subjects along the Abuja-Kaduna expressway, and different environs inside Kaduna State.

5. On 22nd July, 2016, around 1730 hours, at Total Petrol Station, along Aba street in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, one Chukwunyere Austin OKWAA was captured by the Service. OKWAA has been issuing passing dangers against the previous Acting-Managing Director, NDDC, Ibim SEMENITARI (f).

6. In continuation of its battle against terrorism, on 21st July, 2016, this Service captured one Bulama Mohammed RAMAT otherwise known as Muhammad Bashir MUHAMMADU at Jabi Motor Park, in Utako, Abuja. Preceding his capture, MUHAMMADU was wanting to assault the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and its environs, as a team with different components of a radical cell of the Boko Haram bunch.

7. On 22nd June, 2016, a strike on suspected offenders/villains safehouses behind Ado Bayero Quarters at Naibawa range of Kumbotso LGA of Kano State, brought about the recuperation of one (1) AK-47 rifle with twenty-eight (28) rounds of live ammo. Different things recuperated amid the operation are one (1) Browning model gun with two (2) rounds of live ammo and a P5 gun with ten (10) live adjusts.

8. Likewise, on 22nd July, 2016, the Service captured one Saidu YAHAYA, amid the screening of forthcoming Hajj explorers at the Muslim Pilgrims Board in Jos, Plateau State. YAHAYA has been under the radar of the Service as an underground market and unlawful gunrunner who has been supplying arms and ammo to criminal and ethnic/religious biased people in Plateau, Taraba, Benue and Nassarawa States.

9. In another advancement, on nineteenth July, 2016, one Samson Chijioke NZEGWU was captured at Obuofia town, in Nkanu-West LGA of Enugu State. NZEGWU is the ring-pioneer of a criminal-syndicate which has been utilizing cloned/manufactured stuff of the Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Lawrence UGWUANYI, to swindle individuals from people in general. Amid his capture, the whole of One Million Naira, three (3) portable PCs, ten (10) distinctive cell telephones, and other implicating things were recouped from him.

10. On seventeenth July, 2016, at Idi-Mango Ore region in Odigbo LGA of Ondo State, one Esan Abiodun CHRISTOPHER otherwise known as MAIYEGUN was captured by this Service. CHRISTOPHER is an individual from the Reuben AKINBEHINJE-posse which engineered the seize of two (2) Catholic nuns and their driver in Akure, Ondo State. The suspect was secured while organizing arrangements to seize fuel-supply tankers in Oyo State. He is presently under detainment with five (5) different individuals from his criminal group, with whom he had engineered the capture of a few fuel tankers in Ondo, Oyo, Osun, Kwara and Kogi States separately.

11. This Service wish to urge all nationals and occupants to stay cautious and report every single suspicious individual, packages or vehicles to the closest security development. Individuals from people in general are further ordered to see our societal and individual wellbeing as our aggregate obligation and along these lines bolster security and law implementation offices with basic data that would help with giving a protected domain to all to complete their true blue business without let or impediment.

Tony OPUIYO

Dept. of State Services, Abuja