[size=14pt]Boko Haram: US considers tough action as SSS parades suspects[/size]
By Gbade Ogunwale1 hour ago

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SUSPECTS

United States is considering taking a tough stance on Boko Haram, it emerged yesterday.
The US House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security released a report yesterday on what it termed the emerging threat from Boko Haram, according to Huffington Post.


Boko Haram piqued the interest of some Capitol Hill lawmakers when it bombed the United Nations House in Abuja in one of a series of attacks.
The report by the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, chaired by Rep. Patrick Meehan, warns against underestimating Boko Haram’s intent and capability to attack the U.S. homeland. It urges the State Department to investigate whether the group should be designated a foreign terrorist organisation. It also recommends increasing intelligence gathering on Boko Haram, including reaching out to Nigerian immigrants in the United States and boosting U.S. government support for Nigerian efforts to counter the group.


In Abuja yesterday, the State Security Service (SSS) paraded members of four syndicates, who allegedly specialise in sending threat telephone calls, text messages and e-mails to prominent politicians and foreign embassies for the purpose of extorting money from their victims.

Four members of one of the syndicate groups operate from Suleja, Niger State and Zuba in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). They are Stanley Ochuwa, Emmanuel Chinonyerem, Onyedikachi Akpasue and Mathias Akuegbo.

Operating under code names of Col. Murphy, Col. Adams, Col. Mordi and Engr. Emma Nwachukwu, the men confessed to sending to prominent citizens and politicians messages to instill fear and cause panic.

They send the messages warning their victims that they have been marked for assassination and that they would spare their lives, if the victims could pay a ransom into specified bank accounts.

Among the GSM lines used are 08033832929 and 07038867338. The men claimed that they usually obtain the telephone numbers of their victims from documents and complimentary cards taken from refuse dump sites of government ministries, departments, agencies and on the Internet.

SSS spokesperson, Ms Marilyn Ogar said some highly placed Nigerians, including an unnamed senator, have fallen victim to the syndicates.
Another member of a different syndicate, who operates from Kaduna, Haruna Alhaji Hassan (a.k.a Alhaji Madu Gana) allegedly threatened a former governor, now a senator, a Federal Permanent Secretary, a woman party leader in Maiduguri and a party chairman in Bauchi.
According to Ogar, Hassan introduces himself as the secretary of the dreaded Boko Haram sect and usually asks his victims to donate money for the purpose of propagating Islam or risk being bombed.
Ogar added that Hassan had received various sums of money, ranging from N30, 000 to N100, 000 from some of his terrified victims through a Union Bank account.
A sample of some of his messages from his operational GSM number 08052611833 reads: “We are still aware with you and we will soon get to you. Insha Allah, expect us.”
Another suspect, Maurice Efe Lawrence, who hails from Delta State operates from Calabar with three GSM numbers – 08100428701, 08080468686 and 070383912813. He scares victims by threatening to bomb some cities, the SSS said.
He usually lists cities, such as Abuja, Port Harcourt, Jos, Katsina, Damaturu, Maiduguri, Lagos, Dutse and Akure.
One of his text messages to a director in the Ministry of Information reads: “A bomb attack is to take place on Friday and I have every detail even if you don’t want to be involved, send me the number of any SA or PA to Information Minister.”
Lawrence was also said to have claimed through text messages that he has information on plans to assassinate a governorship candidate in Kogi State and an armed robbery in Ondo State.
He was also caught with telephone numbers of some prominent politicians, public servants and private individuals which he claimed to have got from the Internet.
Another one, Chiwendu Josiah, from Imo State, who works in a cyber cafe in Benin-City, allegedly by sends threat e-mails to foreign embassies, alerting them of pending bomb attacks.

The SSS spokesperson said from investigation, it was established that Josiah was the author of the security threat messages that prompted some foreign embassies to issue travel alerts during the last Eid-el-Kabir celebrations.
He sends his messages with a cloned GSM number 081881816038 and e-mail addresses; engr-wendy.netguescyber @hotmail.com, book-haram-algaedas@hotmail.com, materp4pee@rmail.com and materp411@yahoo.com.

His text messages: “We are Boko Haram, we are coming for you”; “The brotherhood remains one indivisible entity. There is no split and there is no splinter group. Stories of split are tissues of lies by the State Security Service to discredit us. Call on all true faithful who believe in our cause to join us by enlisting as a follower and become a member of the brotherhood in our site.”

Josiah is said to have confessed to have been involved in Internet scams since1998.

The SSS stated that criminal elements have taken advantage of the current security situation in the country to cause panic and extort money from prominent members of the society.

Ogar advised top government functionaries and prominent citizens to be careful how they dispose used documents and other materials containing their vital details.”

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They look like Nairalanders. Has anyone been missing of late?

Four members of one of the syndicate groups operate from Suleja, Niger State and Zuba in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). They are Stanley Ochuwa, Emmanuel Chinonyerem, Onyedikachi Akpasue and Mathias Akuegbo.

Come to think of it, some nL members have been missing; Chyz, EzeUche, Igboboy, kasiem.

But I'm sure they'll be freed soon enough. Since Sadly, we still have the Abia gang rap e suspect on the loose.

Another suspect, Maurice Efe Lawrence, who hails from Delta State operates from Calabar with three GSM numbers – 08100428701, 08080468686 and 070383912813. He scares victims by threatening to bomb some cities, the SSS said.
He usually lists cities, such as Abuja, Port Harcourt, Jos, Katsina, Damaturu, Maiduguri, Lagos, Dutse and [size=18pt]Akure[/size].

See, I knew that the robberies in Akure were not committed by Akure indigenes.

Plz I beg you, do not turn Akure upside down. I love that town. . . . it's developing.

I beg you in the name of Jesus, leave Akure alone.

That was my first home before Ekiti was created

Beaf:

They look like Nairalanders. Has anyone been missing of late?

Hahahahaha I won't be surprised.


This email especially " book-haram-algaedas@hotmail.com. "  

SSS spokesperson, Ms Marilyn Ogar said some highly placed Nigerians, including an unnamed senator, have fallen victim to the syndicates.

WHO DO THEY THINK THEY'RE LYING TO?

Instead of protecting such disgraceful senators, they should plz list the names.

This world is full of selfish, ice-hearted people.

Nice move by the US.

Beaf:

They look like Nairalanders. Has anyone been missing of late?

From left to right -dede1,afam4eva,udezue,Nchara. lmao

lets wait and see i am tempted to believe these boko boys are beginning to feel the heat.

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greateros:

[size=15pt]Y are all the names igbo[/size]

something is not right!

something is fishy here!

i dey smell fish!

Anybody smell am??

i dont think these r boko haram peeps! they are more like scammers!!!

These people aren't boko haram suspects, rather they are impersonators who claim to be working for BH in order to get money from gullible Nigerians.

I watched this on channels and it's the fact.

US Considers Tough Stance On Boko Haram As SSS Parades Suspects

When SaharaReporters.com first scooped this U.S. plot, many people said it was figment of Sowore.

Now we understand Sowore's favorite quote:

"truth passes through three stages; first it is rejected; second it is violently opposed; and third it starts becoming self-evident".

Anyways, SaharaReporters are always making sense. Believe it or not.

Interesting! When the Boko haram lineage was reached eastern part? No wonder Sylva makes it barely that he will employ them and subverted his enemy.

Beaf:

They look like Nairalanders. Has anyone been missing of late?

This is way too funny.

When its come to naming the governors, senators and Generals involved, i hope it will not end up like Babe Suwe story 

Always making a business outta everything!

The newspaper reporter should have distinguished between different stories. They should have added the story of the fake BOKO Haram people with "In a related story, the SSS --", so that people wont get confused.

There are always unscrupulous people who will always take advantage of bad situations to scam people. A friend of mine received the so-called assasination threat.

I think after the GSM number verification exercise is concluded, it would be time to increase the price of sim cards significantly. After I received a scam sms telling me that I won 10 million Naira, I sent the number and msg to my provider and made sure they blocked the line and froze all the fraudulent recharge credits the criminal received. But I knew deep within me that the ba stard would just go out the next day and pick up another sim card for 100 naira and continue his nefarious activities.
Something has got to be done. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Cybercafe's need to be monitored more intensely. Any cybercafe in the country, must agree to have keyword-recognition softwares that will trigger alerts to security outfits, installed on their systems. Lets face it, Internet access now is a lot cheaper than it used to and its actually cheaper to have one's personal Internet connection than to use cybercafes ,so most people who use cybercafes now are people who dont want to be monitored by their service providers. Note that I said most, so there are those who may not have realised that its more expensive to use Cybercafes.

Beaf:

They look like Nairalanders. Has anyone been missing of late?

lol!

these guys are original igbos, business men and 419`ers, not boko harams

jehoshua55:

these guys are original igbos, business men and 419`ers, not boko harams

Attention seeker

Mmmmmm

But, why should SSS parade scammers as BokoHaram suspects? Except it is true that they are actually BH adherents,else it will rather divert attention to d wrong group of pple;the names listed as suspects looks more Eastern instead of Northern!

So Igbo people are the boko-haram ? SSS stfu and list the real boko-haram. Useless idiots

After gazillions of bombings and cruel murders, SSS have managed to arrest fraudsters impersonating Boko Haram.  

Hurraayyyy!!! problem solved!

If anyone does not know that a Chinonyerem is most likely in it for the money, the person knows nothing about how Nigerian Ltd operates.

9ja i hail thee. I dont understand that woman,pls differentiate between scammers and boko haram.dont confuse us.

those scammers should be grilled for scarring the hell out of their victims before they die,but if the sss want to win the war against boko haram and jihadist they must not ignore the on line and offline activities of people like alhj_ashawo haram.until they start to monitor his activities then their mission will be long one.and when he is apprehended people on nairaland will be wondering where all what they believed to be real members have gone to,as his miltie-ethnic usernames here will seize to show up.i hope they will find it necessary to put the likes of this alhj_ashawo haram on their watch list,oderwise this country will sink further into abbys cos of his love,sympathy and support for jihadist/boko haram.

They look like Nairalanders. Has anyone been missing of late?

Beaf:

They look like Nairalanders. Has anyone been missing of late?

kai beaf go kill person with laughter !! ROFL

If you are not among them, better come and post here o, so that we know you are not missing

Just hear them, they are taking Nigerians to be little children. When did the the Chukwudis, Tochukwus, Ebukas, Okoros become Boko-Haram. They even lacked the lever to follow the Real Boko-Haram to their caves, they sent former Boko-Haram Obj to beg them. When it appeared that they were loosing the fight, they started catching everyone with suspicious move including scammers and labelled them Boko-Haram. If they had parraded one innocent Aboki or Mai suya from maiduguri, Nigerians would have been tempted to believe them.

wow ! we now have 3 different group of boko harams:
1. political boko haram
2. islamic boko haram
3. '419' boko haram
well,sss u hav gotin d 419 boko haram,and u a arrested a senetor connected to d political boko haram bt what of d
ISLAMIC BOKO HARAMS ?

Clap for sss, Case solved.NONSENSE! Mtchew

na this same sss paraded a goat criminal here before. how can those ppl in the pics be members of boko haram? the next news we will hear now is that they have escaped and then u will know that they have done their jobs and govt will fly them abroad.
if the US wants to help us for real, let them destroy pdp and their cabals because they are the real problems and not boko haram.