Boko Haram Kingpin Escapes Arrest In Minna

Residents of Gbaganu community, a suburb of Minna, Niger state are now living in fear as another suspected Boko Haram kingpin yesterday had an encounter with security operatives following a tip off.

In 2021, the Niger state government demolished a building of a suspected Boko Haram member and was arrested around the same Gbaganu area.

LEADERSHIP gathered that the Boko Haram kingpin is said to be  from Kogi state had moved to the area over a year ago but security intelligence has monitored him and discovered that he was piling dangerous weapons.

It was learnt that he bought the two-bedroom apartment from a local of the area after kpakungu off Minna-Bida Road.

Sources hinted that security operatives early in the morning yesterday moved to the area to apprehend him but the suspect sighted them and began engaging them.

It was learnt that when he discovered that he was been overpowered by the fire of the security operatives, he brought down back fence of his building and escaped through the bush path towards the bush adjoining the forest around Bosso area.

Some of the neighbours interviewed confirmed to LEADERS SHIP that since he moved to the area he neither allowed anybody into his house nor he and members of his family to visit anybody.

It was gathered from the area that, even his name is not known to any of them nor any of the members of the family known to them.

When contacted the police spokesperson, Wasiu Abiodun, neither responded to text messages nor picked his calls, but a security source hinted that 150 Ak 47  guns, 20 rocket propellers, 3000 live ammunition were recovered from the Boko Haram kingpin residence.

It was also gathered that the members of his family, about seven, were arrested by the security operatives as they trail him through the bush path to the adjoining forest.