The Department of State Security Service, DSS has said that it recorded another major breakthrough in the arrest of one Mohammed Usman, widely known as Khalid AL-Barnawi, alias Kafuri/ Naziru/ Alhaji Yahaya/Mallam Dauda/Alhaji Tanimu, major Boko Haram terrorists in furtherance to its efforts to stem the tide of terrorism in the country.
DSS said in a statement said that Khalid AL-BARNAWI was apprehended by the Service on 1st April, 2016, in Lokoja, Kogi State, while hiding under a false cover.
Al-Barnawi was a founding member of the Jama’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid Da’wah Wa’l-Jihad (Boko Haram) and later the Amir of the break-away faction, Jama’at Ansarul Muslimim Fi Biladi Sudan (JAMBS).
Khalid AL-Barnawi, a trained terrorist commander, who has been coordinating terrorist activities in Nigeria, while talent-spotting and recruiting vulnerable young and able Nigerians for terrorist training by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in North African states and the Middle-East.
“Subject was involved in many terrorist attacks in States of the Federation, including Bauchi, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Sokoto and FCT-Abuja, that have led to killing and maiming of innocent citizens of this Country.
Al-Barnawi is also responsible for the bombing of the United Nations building in Abuja, on 26th August, 2011; the kidnapping of two European civil engineers in Kebbi State in May, 2011, and their subsequent murder in Sokoto State.
Other atrocities linked to him, according to the statement, include the kidnap of a German engineer, Edgar RAUPACH in January, 2012, the kidnap and murder of seven expatriate staff of Setraco Construction Company at Jama’are, in Bauchi State, in February, 2013, the attack of Nigerian troops at Okene in Kogi State, while on transit to Abuja for an official assignment.
The statement said that the arrest was a major milestone in the counter-terrorism fight and has strengthened the Service’s resolve that no matter how long and far perpetrators of crime and their sponsors may run, it in collaboration with other sister security agencies, will bring them to justice.
DSS said that the subject would soon be charged to Court to face his charges after investigation is completed.
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