SAN FRANCISCO, August 11, (THEWILL) – Nigerian troops have detained a man suspected to be the main trainer of Boko Haram female suicide bombers alongside 16 females he was allegedly training to execute more deadly attacks within Kano and environs.
A report in the Daily Trust, one of Nigeria’s widely read newspapers, quoting unidentified security sources, said Ibrahim Ibrahim was arrested on Thursday in Dala Local Government of Kano by troops attached to the Joint Task Force (JTF) Kano, during a raid.
The paper said the females were being trained to carry out suicide bombings when the JTF raided their training ground and arrested them and the trainer.
There were three deadly female suicide attacks during the Sallah celebrations in Kano raising fears that the schoolgirls kidnapped by the Boko Haram in Chibok, Borno State, were being indoctrinated and used as suicide bombers.
The suspect got the girls from the Sambisa forest where the Boko Haram is believed to be holding the girls as well as several other captives, the paper said.
“He is still being held and interrogated by the JTF and he is cooperating with the force by divulging vital information about their new strategy of using teenage girls for suicide bombings. I don’t know the exact number of the girls because one of my colleagues who participated in the operation said 13 while the other one said 16,” the source told the paper.
The spokesperson of the JTF in Kano, Captain Ikechukwu Eze, confirmed the arrest of Ibrahim Ibrahim and several other persons but said investigation was still ongoing.
