A Boko Haram kingpin operating in Damboa, Chibok and Askira
axis of Borno State, has been arrested. Jarasu Shira was this morning arrested
at a motor park in Damboa at about 8:30am. He was arrested along with 10 other
suspected members of the group who escorted him to Damboa to connect a vehicle
to Biu en route Lagos.
They were arrested by men of the vigilante (Civilian Joint
Task Force, JTF) who are providing support to the Nigeria military battling the
militant group. Shira who goes by the alias Jarido is number one on the new
list of wanted men by the Nigeria military. He was disguised in a cowboy
outfit.
The suspects have been handed over to military authorities in Biu, Borno state.
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