22nd November, 2010
All security agencies in Niger State have been placed on alert following an alarm raised by Governor Muazu Aliyu Babangida that some members of the notorious Boko Haram sect are planning to invade the state.
Following this alarm, armed mobile policemen now carry out 24-hour patrol on major roads in the state capital.
Governor Babangida Aliyu said he raised the alarm following a report he received from the Bauchi State Governor, Alhaji Isa Yuguda that Boko Haram members were on their way to carry out terror attacks in Niger State.
The governor told emirs and traditional title holders in the state that security reports before him showed that members of the group were already in the state and called on security operatives to be on alert
He also called on all law abiding citizens of the state to remain calm and report any suspected group of people to the nearest police station or emirs’ palaces in their area.
Meanwhile, the state police command says it has succeeded in arresting a Boko Haram suspect in Paikoro Local Government Area of the state.
The state police commissioner, Mr. Mike Zukoumo, who did not give much details on the suspect, said he was arrested following a tipoff and will be prosecuted after completion of investigation.
The suspect, a Fulani by tribe, gave his name as Miyida Ganjo but refused to make any comment on his membership of the dreaded group.
Islamic scholars in the state have called on both the Police and SSS to carry them along in their activities against the dreaded group.
Mallam Ibrahim Mai Yen Makaranta who spoke to P.M.NEWS in Minna said: “We don’t want what happened in Borno and Bauchi to happen in Minna,†he stated.
He appealed to the people of the state to remain calm as true Islamic scholars will expose any suspected islamic group to the authorities.
—Aliyu Musa/Minna
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