DSS arrests Niger Delta, Boko Haram militants

The Department of State Service (DSS) said yesterday that it’s operatives arrested two suspected Niger Delta militants responsible for the attack on some crude oil infrastructure in the South-South region.

A statement signed by Tony Opuiyo, also said the Service arrested a Boko Haram militant, who was planning attacks on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja.

Opuiyo said on July 21, 2016, one Jones Abiri aka General Akotebe Darikoro, was arrested by the Service in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

He said Darikoro is the leader of the Joint Revolutionary Council of the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force (JNDLF), which has been furthering separatist tendencies in connivance with other criminal gangs in the Niger Delta region.

He added that Darikoro, said to operate under the nom-deguerre “General-Kill and Bury”, has confessed and owned up to some criminal activities committed by the JNDLF.

The DSS said the suspect’s activities include; the vandalism of Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) trunk line in Ogboinbiri, Southern Ijaw LGA and bombing of oil pipeline belonging to Shell Development Company (SPDC) at Brass creek on 8th July, 2016, all in Bayelsa State.

He is also said to have threatened to launch missile attacks on selected targets in Abuja including the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock.

The DSS said Darikoro also confessed to be the mastermind of the recently “circulated hoax of planned overthrow of President Muhammadu Buhari,by the military”.

Opuiyo also said on 21st July 2016, one Stephen Mamayebo aka Oscar, a suspected militant was arrested at OmpadecPrimary School in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, in connection with the kidnap of an expatriate staff of Setraco Construction Company and subsequent murder of two soldiers, Sergent Garba Umar and Private Bashir Kabiru along Ogbia-Nembe road on 5th April, 2016.

Opuiyo further stated that on 20th July, 2016, at Travelers Mosque, along Kaduna-Zaria Highway in Igabi, the trio of Ismaila Shuaibu, Kabiru Nasiru and Inusa Abdullahi, were arrested during a tactical raid by the Service.

The Service said the trio were members of a notorious kidnap gang which had been terrorizing innocent citizens along the AbujaKaduna highway.