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.


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 after it has satisfied itself of the appropriateness of such a move.

Did dey really got da right guy? Hmmmmmm,

Tot boko haramist said it was abu dardar dem nab and not qaqa. ​ℓ̊ still say that this people are confusing themselves cos they are scared