Police arrest driver who buys food, fuel for Boko Haram

The Police Command in Borno state on Sunday,
April 30, said that it had arrested a driver, Modu
Mustapha, suspected to be purchasing fuel and
food items for Boko Haram insurgents.

Damian Chukwu, the Commissioner of Police in
the state, disclosed this to the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri, Borno state capital,
adding that the suspect was arrested after a tip-
off by members of the public.
He said: “The police have received information that one
Modu Mustapha of Jumptilo village was a terrorists’
collaborator, who buys fuel and food for them, at Alagarno
and other hideout.
“The police descended on the suspect, who has confessed to
the crime.”
Police arrest driver who buys food, fuel for Boko Haram

Chukwu said that the driver usually fetched
firewood in the bush, from where he was
suspected to have met the terrorists.
The police commissioner said: “He said that he had
been buying things for the insurgent group.
“We recovered N10, 000 from the suspect, which the
terrorists gave him to buy bicycle spare parts for them.”
Chukwu said the suspect also named 15 other
firewood vehicle drivers, who engaged in similar
crime.
According to him, the police are yet to establish
the motive of the driver buying things for the
insurgents.
“We have not been able to establish his reasons for buying
things for them, whether he is under the influence of spell,
coerced into doing it, or doing it willingly as their
collaborator,” said Chukwu
He said that because of the nature of the alleged
crime, it would be transferred to the military for
further action.

Meanwhile, NAIJ.com also gathered that the
police arrested three men who specialised in
adulterating grind-pepper, mixing it with
sawdust and flower waste and selling same to
public as pepper.
“Those arrested included Bukar Masona, Babakura Umar
and Ali Muhammad.
“The adulterated pepper they sell to the public is poisonous
and unfit for human consumption,’’ he said.
The commissioner said that the suspects had
confessed to the crime and would be handed
over to NAFDAC for further investigation.