Naija News

A commander of the Boko Haram sect has been arrested by the military
in Miaduguri, Borno State, Spokesman of the Lt-Col. MusaSagir,
confirmed the arrest of the suspect yesterday.

In a statement he sent tojournalists in Maiduguri, Musa said his
menarrested "a notorious Boko Haram commander, known as
ShuaibuMohammed Bama, who has been on the list of wanted terrorists
group operating between Bamaand Maiduguri in a servingsenator's house
(name withheld) along DamboaRoad, Government Reserved Area (GRA) of
Maiduguri, Borno state."

Sagir said the arrest took place on Thursday at 11a.m. He added that
"the suspected Boko Haram members launched multiple attacks at
different locations of the JTF troops in Sinimari and Lagos streets of
Gwangearea and that all the attacks were repelled by JTF

He noted that a follow up was conducted on Friday which led to
shootings and the recovery of two AK47 rifles, 55 rounds of 7.62mm
special ammunitions, large quantity of Impoverished Explosive Devices
(IEDs) materials and a notorious commander of the sect, one,
BakuraKulima a.k.a. Bin Walid was killedduring the exchange of fire
with troops.

A Chinese construction worker, three soldiers and 10 civilians were
killed yesterday in Maiduguri as members of the Boko Haram held the
town hostage.

Recently, three Indians, a Ghanaian were killed by insurgents in
Gubio, It was gathered that the Chinese was shot yesterday morning by
suspected terrorists at his company's construction site and was rushed
to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH).

He was said to have given up the ghost on the way to the hospital.

The killing of the Chinese caused confusion in the town while Chinese
nationals in the arearan for safety.

At the Lagos street axis where the Chinese was killed, bodies of two
persons allegedly killed by soldiers in the milieu that followed were
found on the street.

There were allegation that many houses were set ablaze by the ravaging
soldiers forcing many residents of the area to flee.

In other parts of the town, eight civilians including a pharmacist,
automobile technician and some traders were killed by suspected Boko
Haram members.

Three soldiers were also killed when the terrorist attacked a military
checkpoint in the town.

The pharmacist was killed at Old Maiduguri, while five persons shot
dead at Bayan quarters and two others at Abbaganaram area in the
yesterday morning.