Northerners in South-West Nigeria have arrested 1,000 Boko Haram members in the region, the Sarkin Hausawa of Lagos, Alhaji Sani Kabir stated yesterday, October 16.
Kabir disclosed this during a meeting between the Arewa Council of Chiefs in the South West and the Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Alhaji Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, in Abuja, Vanguard reports.
The Hausa leader also added that the suspects, who were arrested at different times, had come to the South-West to escape the war against terrorists in the North-East.
Kabir said:
“All the Arewa sarkis (kings) in the south west are up and doing to make sure that we do not allow any breakdown of law and order in our communities.”
“…we inform our leaders that when new people come into their midst, they should observe their behaviour.”
“Some of the leaders in the south west are northerners, some of them are from Borno State, they can know. There were even instances where JTF came from Borno State to identify some of them.”
He also said that the Arewa Council had taken it upon itself to ensure that Boko Haram did not take root in the South West as that would worsen the insecurity in the country.
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