The police in Maiduguri have arrested a suspected top Boko Haram commander, Ibrahim Diye, on Friday following a tip off from one of the residents.
A senior member of an ‘intelligence Police unit’ along Airport road, who pleaded anonymity, said, “I cannot disclose the location where the suspected top commander was arrested, as it may jeopardise further arrests of others.
“The information we had from residents helped us in tracking and arresting this suspect yesterday. He is cooperating with us.”
He said that Diye, who was popularly known as Romeo among his peers of Boko Haram commanders, had threatened to assassinate the district head of Pulka, a border village with Cameroun and 116 kilometre southeast of Maiduguri.
In a related development, troops of Operation Lafiya Dole also yesterday closed in on fleeing insurgents that attacked Mainok village on Wednesday in which two people were killed before the troops repelled the insurgents.
Mainok had been attacked several times in the last two years and it was reported that the village had been harbouring insurgents in the night along the 132-kilometere Maiduguri-Damaturu road.Intelligence report also indicated that the attackers fled to Zari border settlement of Mobbar Council of the state.
