Police detectives annexed to Bauchi State Police Command have apprehended one Mohammed Zakari, a top operative of the dreaded Boko Haram sect in Balmo Forest.
Zakari, 30, who identified himself as the “chief butcher” of Boko Haram, was apprehended last Saturday along Darazo-Basrika Road while fleeing from the intensive counter-insurgency operations going on around the Forest.
The suspect, who hails from Kaigamari Village, Daptchari in Darazo Local Government Area, Bauchi State, is the self-styled “chief butcher” of the insurgent group at the Balmo camp and was verbally expressed to be linked with the recent slaughter of seven people, including women and children in the area.
A verbalization by the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, in Abuja on Tuesday, verbalized that findings as well as disclosures from the suspect will avail law enforcement agencies in tracking down some other members of the terror cell.
It expounded that the terror suspect was discovered to have actively participated in the April attack on Customs officers at Kari Town, along Maiduguri Road, Bauchi State.
The Police verbally expressed that investigation revealed that he was trained in the art of insurgency at Gombe Forest under the leadership of a fleeing insurgent, one Abba Taura, integrating that he peregrinate to Balmo Forest only three months ago.
The Police High Command called on the citizens in the affected areas to be on sentinel for any suspicious or peculiar character fleeing from the Forest.
It additionally called for the construal and support of the public to avail the Police and other Security Forces in tackling insurgency, terrorism and other cognate malefactions headlong, noting that “although the war on terrorism is unrelenting, it is certainly not insurmountable and must be won with the cooperation of all.”
Troops on mopping up operations in the forest had last week recuperated over 10 rifles, as well as more than 80 General Purpose Machine Guns, tubes of Rocket Propelled Grenades and Launchers, cables, wires and thousands of rounds of assorted ammunition.
They additionally recuperated uniforms of security agencies including protective habiliments utilized by the insurgents
