This is an exclusive report on the hunt for members of the now dreaded Ahlan Sunnah Lid Da’waati wal Jihad Yaanaa (brothers), popularly known as the Boko Haram sect and how security agencies are going about their job. The report also reveals the engagement between former Governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and the Directorate of State Security, SSS, and the meeting between the former and President Goodluck Jonathan, last week. It is revealing and explosive.

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‘THE police will continue to do 24 hours surveillance and mop-up operations on the activities of the sect across the zone,” he said. The AIG noted that about 210 weapons were recovered from the sect with 200 detonates, two corrusters, two bags of lethal gun powders, seven bags of poltesum, one basin of nitrate used for making explosives and an AK-47.