BY JIDE AJANI, EMMA UJAH, TAYE
OBATERU, TONY EDIKE & NDAHI MARAMA
LAGOS—MORE facts emerged yesterday,
regarding the condition of acclaimed
spokesman for the Jamaatu Ahlil Sunna
Lidawati wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram, Abul Qaqa, after his arrest at about 4
am on Wednesday. He is said to be providing ‘very useful and verifiable information’ to the men of the State Security Services, SSS. Vanguard gathered that the arrest was actually effected in Kaduna and not Maiduguri as was widely reported. Also, information made available to
Vanguard, yesterday, by very authoritative
sources privy to the on-going interrogation
of Qaqa, suggests that the terror suspect has
owned up to being the one with the name Abul
Qaqa. “He owned up yesterday afternoon,”
according to the security source, “ It should
be said that he buckled under intense
interrogation.” In a related development, Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, threatened to quash all the
four-count criminal charge preferred against
Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume by the Federal
Government, following his alleged convivial relationship with Boko Haram. Ndume, who is representing Borno South Senatorial District was on December 12, 2011, docked before the High Court on allegation that he violated Sections 7(1) (b) and 3(b) of the Terrorism (Prevention) Act, 2011, by not only disclosing classified information to the terrorist group, but also furnishing them with phone numbers of top government officials,
including that of the Attorney General of the
Federation.

Spokesman buckles under interrogation
When Vanguard asked the security source
whether the notorious interrogation
technique known as water-boarding- a
technique roundly condemned by a section of
security experts in the Western World was
being employed, the source emphatically said “No!” However, the source was able to explain that
one of the discoveries during interrogation
was that Qaqa operated under many aliases. He has also been confirmed to have been an
Igbira from Kogi State as against the earlier
rumoured origin of Igala.from the same state. In fact, Vanguard discovered that the arrest
of Qaqa “was the culmination of months’
streneous efforts by men of the SSS. Said the source: “We had been on his trail for
some months now. He fled from Yobe where
he is believed to own a house to Maiduguri,
and then Potiskum, Kano before finally hiding
in an aunt’s residence in Kaduna. The aunt did
not want to give him up but for another male member of the household, who did not know
the value of the suspect in their house. It was
while the said aunt was playing footsy that
the male resident of the house prevailed on
her to own up”. Vanguard was told that the ‘aunt’ was also
arrested along with Qaqa on Wednesday. While the intelligence and eventual arrest was
carried out by armed men of the SSS,
Vanguard was reliably informed that the
military was called in for back up. According
to the source, “this was meant to avert
another Kabir Sokoto-style mess of last month.” As learnt, the confusion over Qaqa’s arrest
stemmed from the decision of the SSS top
echelon to be careful and be sure of his
identity before announcing his arrest to
avoid a situation where the man in custody
could turn out to be someone else other than the spokesman. An elated team at the “Yellow House” is said
to be working hard at arresting all the
masterminds of the sect that has spread pain
and sorrow to many parts of Northern
Nigeria in the last three years. It was learnt that the security agency would
make its latest arrests public afte it has
satisfied itself of the appropriateness of
such a move.

yes ooh. torture him to give out all the information

Water boarding ke Na drowning sef for lagoon  .Abeg We do it Nigerian style .Water boarding is for people who don't want to leave any trace of torture.Some how in Nigeria it is legal to torture unless taken to court. Abeg if na true keep at it until you cripple em.