According to the DSS, Abubaukar is a major gun fabricator, arms-runner and a covert linkman/courier for Boko Haram. Items recovered from him include, 2 pistols, 80 rounds of live ammunition and several sensitive documents.
He was reported to have approached a foreign mission in Nigeria for logistics and financial support under the guise of fighting Boko Haram and, unknown to the mission, he is actually an unauthorized gun-maker/runner.
Other suspected associates of the gun-runner apprehended by the DSS are Umar Khalil Muhammed and Mohammed Yakubu Tahir aka Mallam Yaro at Layin Oscar in Jos South LGA, and Mista Ali area, along Jos-Zaria road in Bassa LGA respectively. The duo are accomplices and active marketers of Abubakar's products "to criminal elements in the North-Central region of the Country" the DSS said.
In similar vein, the DSS also arrested one Armaya’u Yakubu aka Ali Tekwando, Yakubu Sule and Usman Ibrahim at Hayin Danmani area in Kaduna metropolis.
"The trio were members of an extremist cell under the coordination of Yakubu, with affiliation to the proscribed extremist group, ANSARU and have been perfecting plans to travel to Sudan, for terrorist training with other radical elements of the group." the DSS said.
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