SSS arrest suspected supplier of bomb materials in Kano

Written by Lawan Danjuma Adamu, Kano Wednesday, 02 May 2012 16:32 The State Security Service (SSS) in Kano today paraded a man who it said has specialized in supplying “extremist groups” with highly combustible chemicals for making Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) that are used in carrying attacks in the state. Briefing newsmen on the arrest, Kano State director of SSS, Mr. Bassey Uteng, disclosed that the suspect Ayuba Usman of Dala Local Government area of Kano, was found to be dealing with “extremist elements” from confessional statements of “high profile” detainees.

He said Usman “has been providing very combustive chemicals to the extremist groups and these are the chemicals which are being used to make the Improvised Explosive Devices,” adding that his arrest was a further build up on earlier raids by members of the Joint Security Task Force (JTF) in the state. Items recovered from the suspect according to the security service include 35n drums of chemicals and other highly inflammable substances for making bombs.