Infidel Kabiru Sokoto, the Christmas Day bomber, rearrested by SSS while hiding in a wardrobe and handed over to military with his accomplices

Posted by admin Boko Haram, National Politics, Top Stories Saturday, February 11th, 2012

The alleged mastermind of the Christmas Day bombing, Kabiru Abubakar Dikko (a.k.a Kabiru Sokoto), who was rearrested by a combined team of the State Security Service and the military on Friday, has been moved out of the headquarters of the SSS and handed over to the military.

According to an online news portal, Premium Times, after Sokoto was paraded before journalists on Friday afternoon, he was kept in one of the detention cells at the SSS headquarters.

As dusk came however, he was reportedly put into an unmarked security van and driven away under the cover of darkness.

Those arrested with him, Premium Times wrote, were also taken away in similar fashion.

“Our source said the Boko Haram kingpin is being detained in one of the numerous military barracks in Abuja where interrogators will grill him for days to come,” it said.

It was further gathered that security had been heightened around locations in the capital and elsewhere where Boko Haram suspects are kept.

“Investigators are trying to get as much information as possible from Sokoto that would help in tracing the leader and other kingpins of the sect.

“Another source in the police on Saturday night said all Boko Haram suspects with the force had been handed over to the military for safekeeping,” the news portal added.

Sokoto, alongside some accomplices, was arrested in Muntum Biu village in Taraba State on Friday.

He is considered a key member of the Boko Haram sect.

When SUNDAY PUNCH contacted the Assistant Director, Public Relations, SSS, Marilyn Ogar, she said, “I cannot confirm that. I don’t know where you got the story from. You can call them to get the remaining part of the story. When we arrested him, we called the press.”

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