By Ben Agande

Abuja—The Department of State Services, DSS, has recorded a major victory in its fight against crime and criminality in the country as it announced yesterday that it arrested one Mudaisiru Jibrin, aka Namakele Alarama, for msterminding the killing of students of Government Secondary School, Yobe, in 2013.

In a statement signed by the spokesman of the Service, Tony Opuiyo, the DSS said no fewer than 60 students were killed in their dormitory in that attack.

The agency it also arrested the mastermind of the shooting of some students at Government Secondary School, GSS, Mamudo village, near Potiskum, Yobe State, in 2013, Mudaisiru Jibrin, aka Namakele/Alarama, where over 60 were killed in their dormitory.

According to the DSS, On August 12, 2016, three members of the Ansaru terrorist group hibernating in Kogi State were also apprehended.

It gave the names of the arrested members as Usman Abdullahi, Abdulmumuni Sadio and Ahmad Salihu, who were arrested while making arrangements to launch attacks on some selected targets in Edo and Kogi states, before escaping to join ISIS in Libya.

The statement read: “In furtherance to ongoing tactical and counter-terrorism operations to degrade the capabilities of criminal gangs/syndicates in their hide-outs across the federation, the Department of State Services, DSS, wishes to apprise the general public of recent successes recorded.

“Following threat messages against some members of the Diplomatic Corps in Abuja and Lagos, this Service responded and subsequently apprehended one Aikhoje Moses on August 19, 2016, at Azagha by-pass, off the Benin – Asaba expressway in Edo State.

‘’Before his arrest, Moses had threatened the diplomatic community in Nigeria, particularly the Consular-Generals of Switzerland and Denmark and their embassies in Nigeria, warning them to leave the country.

“The Service also arrested one Mudaisiru Jibrin on July 17, 2016, at Sauna quarters, Yankaba area in Kano. Jibrin was the spiritual leader of a newly-uncovered Boko Haram cell in Kano.

‘’Preliminary investigation so far conducted revealed that he was also the mastermind of the shooting of some students at Government Secondary School, GSS, Mamudo village, near Potiskum, Yobe State, in 2013.

“Similarly, on July 8, 2016, at Kinkinau area in Unguwar Mu’azu of Kaduna metropolis, the Service arrested one Mukhtar Tijani, a notorious Boko Haram fighter and three of his accomplices, namely Isiaku Salihu, Abdullahi Isah and Hindu Isah.”

‘’The four suspects were apprehended while perfecting arrangements for major coordinated attacks on selected targets and locations in Kaduna State.

“In a related development, on 12th  August 2016, at Auchi in Edo State, three members of the Ansaru terrorist group hibernating in Kogi State were apprehended by the Service. Usman Abdullahi, Abdulmumuni Sadio and Ahmad Salihu were arrested while making arrangements to launch attacks on some selected targets in Edo and Kogi states, before escaping to join ISIS in Libya.