A year ago, the Senegalese police arrested a Nigerian national suspected of terrorism. Liberation is able to reveal today that the individual, locked since, is named Godwin Okoh and he actually admitted to having received a deposit of 10,000 dollars from a member of the Islamic State to recruit "Boko Haram" to Senegal. Moreover, the embassy of his country that reported it has transmitted to the Senegalese authorities compromising photos circulating elsewhere in Nigerian social networks. Exclusive revelations.

According to our information, Godwin Okoh, who will be questioned in the background in the coming days, is in serious trouble because he is believed to have come to Senegal to recruit fighters to strengthen the ranks of the criminal organization, Boko Haram, who is also at the center of the alleged terrorism trial of Matar Diokhané et Cie.

Indeed, it was the Nigerian embassy in Senegal that revealed to the authorities the fact that Godwin Okoh belonged to Boko Haram and his arrival in Senegal to recruit jihadists for the group and the Islamic State.
As soon as he showed up at the diplomatic representation of his country, thanks to the personal investment of members of the Nigerian community who trapped him, Okoh was picked up by the Point E investigators and placed in a guard position. at sight.

He claimed to have arrived in Senegal from Mali via Mauritania by land. he alleged that he crossed the border illegally, in Rosso, taking advantage of a moment of inattention of the agents to evade control and thus enter the Senegalese territory.

Returning to the reasons for his arrest, he said that during the month of February 2016, he knew, via Facebook, an American called Ayan Mills and that it was during their interviews that the latter told him to belong to the movement "Isis" (Editor's note, Islamic State) based in Syria.
He added that the latter asked him to help him recruit members, by the net, for the sum of $ 10,000, proposal he said he accepted. He added, unsurprisingly, that it was then that this person started to blackmail him by publishing his photos to say he is a member of a terrorist group.
A testimony pretty far-fetched and for good reason. Even if we do not know for the moment
how the compromising photos of the suspects were found on social networks to be included in the file transmitted by Nigeria to Senegal.
On one of the photos, we see Okoh burn his passport as Boko Haram demands from his members. On another, he poses proudly with the background of the flag of a jihadist group. Moreover, the suspect was "red" in Nigeria where an international search warrant was issued against him.
It should be noted that Okoh is not the only Nigerian detained in Senegal for acts of terrorism. Oderoghene Egbedi, who had attacked a police officer in Rosso with a knife, and his brother Ejiroghene Egbedi who had come to Dakar to visit him, are being held for the same criminal acts.

source: https://www.dakaractu.com/RECRUTEUR-PRESUME-DE-BOKO-HARAM-DANS-LES-NASSES-DE-LA-JUSTICE-SENEGALAISE-les-secrets-de-l-affaire-godwin-Okoh_a153302.html