The State Security Services (SSS) on Friday gave a vivid account of the rearrest Friday morning in Mutum Biu, Taraba State, the Boko Haram kingpin, Kabiru

Umar(alias Kabiru Sokoto), who escaped from Police custody in Abuja, three weeks ago.



The arrest was said to have been effected, following more than one week of profiling conducted on Sokoto.

According to sources, Kabiru Sokoto, was smoked out from where he was hiding in the clothes rack at the residence of an accomplice.

Saturday Tribune gathered that following the failure of the police to handle the case professionally, leading to Sokoto’s escape in their hands in Abuja, the Federal Government immediately mandated the SSS to take over the case.

Kabiru Sokoto is acclaimed to be the number two man in the Boko Haram hierarchy and suspected to be the mastermind of the December 25, 2011 bomb blast on St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger state, which claimed more than 40 lives.

A source, who gave further insights into the arrest, explained that the operatives did what they called “professional profiling,” on Kabiru Sokoto and traced him from Makurdi to Taraba.

Sources close to the administration confirmed that operatives were asked to monitor Sokoto’s movements as well as the movement of people linked with him.

He reportedly landed in Nasarawa State sometime after he left Abuja, but his movements were not that straight.

“The tracking paid off on Thursday night when operatives were able to locate him in Taraba State and pick him up early Friday,” a source said.

“We can confirm to you that the DG of the SSS has ordered immediate questioning of the suspect. That has started immediately the man was brought to the Yellow House,” a source said adding that the operatives were interested in knowing how the suspect escaped from the police custody as well as all those involved in the escape.

Kabiru Sokoto, who was brought to Abuja immediately after his arrest under heavy security provided by military personnel and operatives of the Department of State Security Service (DSS), later confirmed to newsmen that he was actually the same Kabiru Sokoto that escaped from the police custody in Abaji.

Giving further details on the arrest, the spokesperson of the service, Ms Marilyn Ogar, said Kabiru Sokoto was apprehended by the operatives of the service and military personnel at around 4:30 am at a location in Taraba following a tip off.

Specifically, Ogar who paraded Kabiru Sokoto before newsmen in Abuja under heavy security said that Kabiru Sokoto, who escaped from lawful custody on January 15, at Abaji, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), was rearrested at Mutum-Biu in Taraba.

According to her, "Kabiru Sokoto, was picked up from where he was hiding in the clothes rack at the residence of an accomplice."

She said that preliminary investigations revealed that, "on his escape, he had taken refuge at Umaisha in Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State before he fled to Taraba State where he was eventually rearrested."

Ogar said that the suspect was arrested earlier in the day and had to be brought to Abuja for further interrogation stressing, "we have processes and procedures in the service, he will have to follow such processes and procedures which will guide the service on the next line of action.

Ogar, who assured that the suspect would be charged to court as soon as possible dismissed a question of fundamental human rights of Kabiru Sokoto raised by a journalist, saying, "yes, he has rights but he cannot use his rights to infringe on the rights of the entire nation going by the activities of his group."

On the alleged invasion of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Headquarters, Abuja over the Boko Haram video tape by SSS, Ogar denied the allegation, saying it was even the service that authorised the NTA to air the controversial tape when the service was contacted.





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Hard Guy Hidding in a clothe Rack. Pathetic

may them arrest all Northern Governors, Ex IG and all police on duty the day he excaped, Only Goodluck Jonathan is honest

Disappointed. It wasn't as detailed as i expected. It's made to appears so simple

Toto Local Government Area. Funny name.

That nigga looks like my lost he-goat,the beards are exactly the same.

Simply send him to main market onitsha and announce his identity to those around and let him loose.

@ufumes, minute details of security operations will make it easy for other criminals to have some understanding of the workings of the system and therefore will tend to be a step ahead of the law at any point in time. Such info is released on a need to know basis. Bottom line is he was tracked down after profiling to his final point in mutum biu. The saddest part is how all these supposedly strong and hard guys are always pulled out from holes that will make d weakest of women feel very low. It is rather very shameful. People like him should be strong enough to pursue his beliefs to d point of death, afterall he has engineered more than 40 deaths in one fell swoop.

Let the SSS send him to Kirikiri Maximum Prison in Lagos so that he will suffer and lets see if he can escape again!

Toto local government area? hmmm

^^^ lmao

ufumes:

Disappointed. It wasn't as detailed as i expected. It's made to appears so simple

U can get the details on thisdayonline.com

wetin him go do for toto local govt,he go Bleep for there?.May he for enter penis local gvt from there.lol

mudafuka

What about the Military Officer that was with him when he was arrested in Abuja? Heard he is an Air Force Officer. There is a need to know his identity/whereabouts also, especially as Boko Haram killed 3 airforce personnel in Kano.

@patuwa2, remember boko haram were responsible for the jail break in bauchi, so sending him to prison will do no good.

den Zakari Biu & odas Shud be release

Ucbiu:

den Zakari Biu & odas Shud be release

Why??

Please SSS should not release him to the police

Thats a nice work from patrotic individuals who do not want to compromise their duties. Well the war is comming to an end. Who say Nigeria is not the giant of Africa.

this simply means that Nigeria security operatives could work when they mean to.

Why don't they mean to work all the time?

No need to take him to court,sss just mix cement and water a serve him as tea,then let him go

[size=8pt]Distance between mutum biu and Cameroon is about 92 miles, a trekable distance in less than 10 days for sb whose life is on the danger list with 50million naira ransome on the persons head.How come K.sokoto prefered to be taking warmth in a pack of cloths
if he came thru markurdi, he could ave been safely conveyed to lagos in a truck of yam or truck of bags of guinea corn to far north,
this are simple strategies he could have used without much money even. How come he didn't?
does it mean sb who could outsmart a police truck with 10men with hand-cuffd can't think.

Men and brethren, this drama is still unfolding.help my curiosity.
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Trapped in the closet. . . By kabiru sokoto

There is something very fishy about this kabiru's picture,
Can anyone pls help upload the first picture the police gave us when they first captured kabiru sokoto
I mean before the escape pls, i cant seem to find it anywhere,
The first picture he looked big and fat on his face, tall wit a bit fatty cheek
Pls i need an upload, pls

Kudos to the SSS for a very good job: re-arresting the escaped convict within one month!

I hope they grill him properly and very quickly charge him to court for the murder of all those killed by BH to date as well as being accessory to murder. Let's hope the judge will give him speedy trial and sentence him to deserved death by hanging. He can follow his mentor saddam Hussein of Iraq who promised the "mother of all wars" but was fished out of a rat-hole with American cookies and chocolate

palugy colina:

There is something very fishy about this kabiru's picture,
Can anyone pls help upload the first picture the police gave us when they first captured kabiru sokoto
I mean before the escape pls, i cant seem to find it anywhere,
The first picture he looked big and fat on his face, tall wit a bit fatty cheek
Pls i need an upload, pls

Likes of you makes me wonder. So, the SSS is parading a fake person. Why not bring the real person out then if you know where he is?

TV should scramble the PUMA logo on his shirt. It's negative publicity against PUMA.

excuse me please but i wasnt talking about this picture
can anyone pls help upload kabiru sokoto's old picture
in that pic he wore a jacket and seems he was standing with a guy in handcuffs
see werepele or whatever ur name is please just res[ect ur self oh
we need to verify that pic