Boko Haram bomb maker arrested in northeast Nigeria
Nigeria’s security forces have arrested a man believed to be behind the manufacture of improvised explosive devices used in a spate of Boko Haram terrorist attacks in the northeastern part of the country.
A senior police officer, requesting anonymity, said on Tuesday that the man, identified only as Ba’na, was detained in the Arikime area of the northeastern town of Potiskum on January 25, following weeks of surveillance operations.
The officer added that Ba’na is in his mid-thirties, and has admitted making the bombs.
“He confessed to being responsible for the manufacture of the explosives used in at least three … attacks and the car explosion outside the divisional police station,” the unnamed officer said, adding, “He was quite good at his disguise and his mason and water vending jobs gave him perfect cover.”
Nine accomplices were also arrested in a hideout in Potiskum hours after Ba’na was arrested.
Ba’na allegedly made the explosives used in an attack on a secondary school on November 10, 2014, which claimed the lives of 58 people, the January 10 bombing in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, where at least 19 people were killed and more than a dozen wounded, as well as the January 11 twin bomb blasts at a crowded cell phone market in Potiskum, where four people died.
Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is forbidden,” controls parts of northeastern Nigeria.
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