MAIDUGURI (AFP) – Nigerian authorities said Friday they had
arrested an alleged high-profile member of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram
at the home of a senator in the violence-torn Nigerian city of Maiduguri.
The statement from a military task force in Maiduguri did not name
the senator and provided few other details. There have been allegations of
links between elements of Boko Haram and local politicians in the past.
“A high-profile Boko Haram commander, one Shuaibu Mohammed Bama,
who has been on the list of wanted terrorists … was arrested by task force
troops in a serving senator’s house …,” the statement said of the arrest on
Thursday.
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