According to a report by Guardian, not less than 486 suspected Boko Haram members including
eight women were arrested by the military
personnel of the 144 battalion of the Nigerian Army
with base at Asa in Ukwa West council of Abia
State. Full report below... Abia State Information Commissioner, Chief
Eze Chikamnayo, who took some reporters to
the military camp yesterday to see the
suspects said they were arrested around 3:00
a.m. on Sunday along Enugu-Aba-Port
Harcourt Expressway at Arongwa area called Imo Gate, which is a boundary between Abia
and Rivers states. He said that the suspects whose ages were
from 15 years were traveling on 35 buses
from undisclosed northern states to the South
South. He said that they claimed to be going
to search for jobs, adding that two of the
buses later escaped. Continue... The commissioner spoke in the presence of the
Battalion Commander, Lt. Colonel Rasheed
Omolori, whose only comment was that the report
had already been sent to his headquarter. It was also disclosed that somebody whose name
was not made known, had come to secure the
release of the suspects but was arrested and
detained. Reacting to the incident, the state Police Public
Relations Officer ( PPRO), Mr. Geoffery
Ogbonna, said that the matter was a military one
and had not been reported to the police command.
He said that when he contacted the Army Public
Relations Officer in the state whose name he did not mention, he told him (PPRO) that he was not
yet aware of the matter. And following the bomb found on the premises and
inside the Living Faith Church (a.k.a Winners
Chapel), Port Harcourt Road, Owerri, capital city of
Imo State, the Imo State Governor, Rochas
Okorocha, in conjunction with security chiefs
yesterday launched what he called “Operation Know Your Neighbour.” The occasion was attended by a cross section of
stakeholders in the state amid heavy security. The meeting resolved as follows:
“. Hotels in the state should install security
cameras and on daily basis always forward the list
of their guests to the Director of SSS.
“. Trailers bringing food items from the North would
no longer be allowed to come into the state at night but only in the day, and the food items would be
off-loaded at a designated place off the state
capital.
“. Residents in the state must also be careful with
broken bottles, cans, leather bags, parked tankers
and vehicles around their homes, public places and public buildings.
“. Traditional rulers in the state were directed to
summon emergency meetings of their various
communities to take stock of strange faces living
with them.
“. Uncompleted buildings in the cities in the state and environs without security guards will be taken
over by the government because criminals use
them as hideouts.
“. Lands left fallow for several years and not used
for any economic or gainful purpose but taken over
by criminals will be seized by the government “. Smoking of Indian hemp was also banned.
“. A meeting of all non-indigenes in the state has
also been fixed.”
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