Terror Suspects Arrested At Maiduguri Airport

Abuja - Security personnel have
arrested three terror suspects at the
Maiduguri International Airport.
The suspected Boko Haram suspects
were said to be returning to the
country from Saudi Arabia where
they had gone to on the holy
pilgrimage.
“The suspected terrorists were
among the first batch of pilgrims
that returned to Borno from Saudi
and they were arrested by combined
team of police, military personnel,
immigration and men of the
Department of Security services
(DSS) at the airport as soon as they
arrived, ” a police source in
Maiduguri told this agency.
According to the source, the
combined team of security men
waited for the suspects at the
airport and arrested them
immediately after their plane landed.
Confirming the arrest to journalists
yesterday in Maiduguri, the Acting
Deputy Director Army Public
Relations (DDAPR) of the 7 Division,
Nigerian Army, Captain Aliyu Danja
said, “We got information that six
suspected members of Boko Haram
were among the pilgrims that went
to Saudi Arabia to perform this year
hajj exercise and we picked them up
as soon as they arrived.”
He said three suspects had been
absolved of any crime.
“They were released after our
investigations but the other three
are still with us undergoing
interrogation. The other suspects
were released after initial
investigations showed they were
clean,” Danja said.
– CAJ News.
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