DSS STATEMENT ON ARRESTED TERRORIST KINGPIN AL-BARNAWI AND IPOB:
This Service wish to inform the general
public that further to its efforts to stem the
tide of terrorism in the Country, it has
recorded another major breakthrough in
the arrest of one Mohammed USMAN,
widely known as Khalid AL-BARNAWI, alias
KAFURI/ NAZIRU/ ALHAJI YAHAYA/MALLAM
DAUDA/ALHAJI TANIMU.
2. Khalid AL-BARNAWI was apprehended by
this Service on 1st April, 2016, in Lokoja,
Kogi State, while hiding under a false cover.
AL-BARNAWI was a founding member of
the Jama'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid Da'wah Wa'l-
Jihad (Boko Haram) and later the Amir of
the break-away faction, Jama'at Ansarul
Muslimim Fi Biladi Sudan (JAMBS).
3. Khalid AL-BARNAWI is a trained terrorist
commander, who has been coordinating
terrorist activities in Nigeria, while talent-
spotting and recruiting vulnerable young
and able Nigerians for terrorist training by
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in
North African States and the Middle-East.
4. Subject was involved in many terrorist
attacks in States of the Federation,
including Bauchi, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina,
Kebbi, Kogi, Sokoto and FCT-Abuja. This
resulted in the killing and maiming of
innocent citizens of this Country.
ALBARNAWI is also responsible for the
bombing of the United Nations building in
Abuja, on 26th August, 2011; the
kidnapping of two European civil engineers
in Kebbi State in May, 2011, and their
subsequent murder in Sokoto State; the
kidnap of a German engineer, Edgar
RAUPACH in January, 2012, the kidnap and
murder of seven expatriate staff of Setraco
Construction Company at Jama'are, in
Bauchi State in February, 2013, the attack
of Nigerian troops at Okene in Kogi State,
while on transit to Abuja for an official
assignment.
5. Meanwhile, subject would soon be
charged to Court to face his charges after
investigation is completed.
6. This arrest is a major milestone in the
counter-terrorism fight of this Service. This
arrest has strengthened the Service’s
resolve that no matter how long and far
perpetrators of crime and their sponsors
may run, this Service in collaboration with
other sister security agencies, will bring
them to justice.
7. In another development, the Service has
uncovered the heinous role played by
members of the Indigenous Peoples of
Biafra (IPOB), in the abduction/kidnap of
five Hausa-Fulani residents, namely
Mohammed GAINAKO, Ibrahim
MOHAMMED, Idris YAKUBU, and Isa
Mohammed RAGO at Isuikwuato LGA in
Abia State.
8. The abducted men were later discovered
at the Umuanyi forest, Abia State, where
they were suspected to have been killed by
their abductors and buried in shallow
graves, amidst fifty (50) other shallow
graves of unidentified persons. Arrest and
investigation conducted so far, revealed
that elements within the IPOB, carried out
this dastardly action.
9. It is pertinent therefore to alert the
general public that IPOB, is gradually
showing its true divisive colour and
objectives, while steadily embarking on
gruesome actions in a bid to ignite ethnic
terrorism and mistrust amongst non-
indigenes in the South-East region and
other parts of the country. Following this
act, tension is currently rife among
communal stakeholders in the State with
possibilities of spillover to other parts of
country.
10. Against the foregoing, the Service will
not hesitate to act decisively within its
statutory mandate to ensure that the
sponsors and perpetrators of this action
are apprehended and prosecuted for their
crime. Accordingly, law-abiding citizens are
enjoined to go about their civil duties and
businesses freely, as efforts are being
intensified by security agencies to maintain
law and order in the State and across the
Federation.
THANK YOU,
Tony OPUIYO
DSS, Abuja.
9th April, 2016
public that further to its efforts to stem the
tide of terrorism in the Country, it has
recorded another major breakthrough in
the arrest of one Mohammed USMAN,
widely known as Khalid AL-BARNAWI, alias
KAFURI/ NAZIRU/ ALHAJI YAHAYA/MALLAM
DAUDA/ALHAJI TANIMU.
2. Khalid AL-BARNAWI was apprehended by
this Service on 1st April, 2016, in Lokoja,
Kogi State, while hiding under a false cover.
AL-BARNAWI was a founding member of
the Jama'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid Da'wah Wa'l-
Jihad (Boko Haram) and later the Amir of
the break-away faction, Jama'at Ansarul
Muslimim Fi Biladi Sudan (JAMBS).
3. Khalid AL-BARNAWI is a trained terrorist
commander, who has been coordinating
terrorist activities in Nigeria, while talent-
spotting and recruiting vulnerable young
and able Nigerians for terrorist training by
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in
North African States and the Middle-East.
4. Subject was involved in many terrorist
attacks in States of the Federation,
including Bauchi, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina,
Kebbi, Kogi, Sokoto and FCT-Abuja. This
resulted in the killing and maiming of
innocent citizens of this Country.
ALBARNAWI is also responsible for the
bombing of the United Nations building in
Abuja, on 26th August, 2011; the
kidnapping of two European civil engineers
in Kebbi State in May, 2011, and their
subsequent murder in Sokoto State; the
kidnap of a German engineer, Edgar
RAUPACH in January, 2012, the kidnap and
murder of seven expatriate staff of Setraco
Construction Company at Jama'are, in
Bauchi State in February, 2013, the attack
of Nigerian troops at Okene in Kogi State,
while on transit to Abuja for an official
assignment.
5. Meanwhile, subject would soon be
charged to Court to face his charges after
investigation is completed.
6. This arrest is a major milestone in the
counter-terrorism fight of this Service. This
arrest has strengthened the Service’s
resolve that no matter how long and far
perpetrators of crime and their sponsors
may run, this Service in collaboration with
other sister security agencies, will bring
them to justice.
7. In another development, the Service has
uncovered the heinous role played by
members of the Indigenous Peoples of
Biafra (IPOB), in the abduction/kidnap of
five Hausa-Fulani residents, namely
Mohammed GAINAKO, Ibrahim
MOHAMMED, Idris YAKUBU, and Isa
Mohammed RAGO at Isuikwuato LGA in
Abia State.
8. The abducted men were later discovered
at the Umuanyi forest, Abia State, where
they were suspected to have been killed by
their abductors and buried in shallow
graves, amidst fifty (50) other shallow
graves of unidentified persons. Arrest and
investigation conducted so far, revealed
that elements within the IPOB, carried out
this dastardly action.
9. It is pertinent therefore to alert the
general public that IPOB, is gradually
showing its true divisive colour and
objectives, while steadily embarking on
gruesome actions in a bid to ignite ethnic
terrorism and mistrust amongst non-
indigenes in the South-East region and
other parts of the country. Following this
act, tension is currently rife among
communal stakeholders in the State with
possibilities of spillover to other parts of
country.
10. Against the foregoing, the Service will
not hesitate to act decisively within its
statutory mandate to ensure that the
sponsors and perpetrators of this action
are apprehended and prosecuted for their
crime. Accordingly, law-abiding citizens are
enjoined to go about their civil duties and
businesses freely, as efforts are being
intensified by security agencies to maintain
law and order in the State and across the
Federation.
THANK YOU,
Tony OPUIYO
DSS, Abuja.
9th April, 2016
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