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| Members of the suspected Boko Haram |
According to a report by Guardian, not less than 486 suspected Boko Haram
members including eight women were arrested by the military personnel of the
144 battalion of the Nigerian Army with base at Asa in Ukwa West council of
Abia State. Full report below...
Abia State Information Commissioner,
Chief Eze Chikamnayo, who took some reporters to the military camp yesterday to
see the suspects said they were arrested around 3:00 a.m. on Sunday along
Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway at Arongwa area called Imo Gate, which is a
boundary between Abia and Rivers states.
He said that the suspects whose ages were from 15 years were
traveling on 35 buses from undisclosed northern states to the South
South. He said that they claimed to be going to search for jobs, adding
that two of the buses later escaped. Continue...
The
commissioner spoke in the presence of the Battalion Commander, Lt. Colonel
Rasheed Omolori, whose only comment was that the report had already been sent
to his headquarter.
It was also disclosed that somebody whose name was not made known, had come to secure the release of the suspects but was arrested and detained.
Reacting to the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer ( PPRO), Mr. Geoffery Ogbonna, said that the matter was a military one and had not been reported to the police command. He said that when he contacted the Army Public Relations Officer in the state whose name he did not mention, he told him (PPRO) that he was not yet aware of the matter.
And following the bomb found on the premises and inside the Living Faith Church (a.k.a Winners Chapel), Port Harcourt Road, Owerri, capital city of Imo State, the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, in conjunction with security chiefs yesterday launched what he called “Operation Know Your Neighbour.”
The occasion was attended by a cross section of stakeholders in the state amid heavy security.
The meeting resolved as follows:
“. Hotels in the state should install security cameras and on daily basis always forward the list of their guests to the Director of SSS.
“. Trailers bringing food items from the North would no longer be allowed to come into the state at night but only in the day, and the food items would be off-loaded at a designated place off the state capital.
“. Residents in the state must also be careful with broken bottles, cans, leather bags, parked tankers and vehicles around their homes, public places and public buildings.
“. Traditional rulers in the state were directed to summon emergency meetings of their various communities to take stock of strange faces living with them.
“. Uncompleted buildings in the cities in the state and environs without security guards will be taken over by the government because criminals use them as hideouts.
“. Lands left fallow for several years and not used for any economic or gainful purpose but taken over by criminals will be seized by the government
“. Smoking of Indian hemp was also banned.
“. A meeting of all non-indigenes in the state has also been fixed.”
It was also disclosed that somebody whose name was not made known, had come to secure the release of the suspects but was arrested and detained.
Reacting to the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer ( PPRO), Mr. Geoffery Ogbonna, said that the matter was a military one and had not been reported to the police command. He said that when he contacted the Army Public Relations Officer in the state whose name he did not mention, he told him (PPRO) that he was not yet aware of the matter.
And following the bomb found on the premises and inside the Living Faith Church (a.k.a Winners Chapel), Port Harcourt Road, Owerri, capital city of Imo State, the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, in conjunction with security chiefs yesterday launched what he called “Operation Know Your Neighbour.”
The occasion was attended by a cross section of stakeholders in the state amid heavy security.
The meeting resolved as follows:
“. Hotels in the state should install security cameras and on daily basis always forward the list of their guests to the Director of SSS.
“. Trailers bringing food items from the North would no longer be allowed to come into the state at night but only in the day, and the food items would be off-loaded at a designated place off the state capital.
“. Residents in the state must also be careful with broken bottles, cans, leather bags, parked tankers and vehicles around their homes, public places and public buildings.
“. Traditional rulers in the state were directed to summon emergency meetings of their various communities to take stock of strange faces living with them.
“. Uncompleted buildings in the cities in the state and environs without security guards will be taken over by the government because criminals use them as hideouts.
“. Lands left fallow for several years and not used for any economic or gainful purpose but taken over by criminals will be seized by the government
“. Smoking of Indian hemp was also banned.
“. A meeting of all non-indigenes in the state has also been fixed.”
This is really scary, it means this guys are very close to us and we know not, thanks to God for giving the military the wisdom to be able to fish them out. Surely their atrocities shall not gain grounds in the South by the mercies of god almighty. I advice other state in the south-south follow lead from Imo State government doing all possible best to secure lives and properties of its citizenry.
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