Nigeria nabs another Boko Haram fighter in SW region

Source: Xinhua| 2017-10-04 00:55:11|Editor: Mu Xuequan
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ABUJA, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Police in Nigeria on Tuesday said they had handed over a suspected member of the terror group Boko Haram to the army for further questioning and necessary action.

The police in the southwestern state of Ondo said it arrested the suspect, a 20 years old from Nigeria's central state of Nasarawa last Sunday.

The arrest followed the earlier nabbing of another 42-year-old suspected Boko Haram fighter in Isua-Akoko local area of the state on Sept. 25.

The two suspects were arrested in the same area, said Gbenga Adeyanju, the Ondo State police chief.

According to Adeyanju, the suspect, in his confessions, had claimed that he was introduced to the terror group by friends two years ago.

The suspect also confessed to killing two people as a Boko Haram fighter before his arrest.

The suspect confessed that he and his sibling were preparing for a terror attack in the southwestern state when he was arrested, Adeyanju added.

Nigeria has made a considerable gain on the Boko Haram front, with its security forces operating in the restive northeast region, dislodging Boko Haram fighters from the Sambisa Forest, the group's largest training camp in the country, in December last year.

At least 1,400 suspected members of Boko Haram are currently held in a detention center in the country's northeast region.

Boko Haram has been blamed for the deaths of more than 20,000 people and displacing of 2.3 million others in Nigeria since their insurgency started in 2009.

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