Boko Haram Kingpin Engages Security Operatives In Gun Duel, Escapes Arrest In Niger

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Residents of Gbaganu community, a suburb of Minna, Niger State capital city, are now living in fears as another suspected Boko Haram kingpin had an encounter

Recall that in 2021, Niger State government demolished a building of a suspected Boko Haram member and was arrested around the same Gbaganu area.

Sources hinted that security operatives early in the morning on Tuesday moved to the area to apprehend him, but the suspected terrorist sighted them and engaged them in gun duel.It was learnt that when he discovered that he was being overpowered by the superior firepower of the security operatives, he brought down the back fence of his building and escaped through the bush path towards the bush adjoining the forest around Bosso area of Minna.

It was further gathered that from residents in the area that even his name was not known to any of them nor any of the members of the family known to anyone.

 

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