Could this news below be true? i got this info from Pat Utomis facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/Utomi) so i decided to surf the net to verify its authencity.

Written by Naija Pundit on 19 December 2011.
Following the attacks in Kwa, Kano state, by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect, on Thursday and Friday last week, the locals have risen up against the set and have undertaken a massive man hunt against the sect.

A local vigilante group in Darmanawa Quarters, Ungwan Uku in Kano, Kano state had combed some houses and had found tapes of the late Mohammed Yusuf in the house of one Yunusa Ahmed. Upon further search, they found a car already rigged with improvised explosive devices apparently meant to be used for a suicide bombing. The car (pictured above) if used in an attack would have killed multiples of people.

Yunusa had been engaged in a shoot out with the police who were on a reconnaissance mission to his house. Upon being aware of the reconnaissance, Yunusa had alerted members of the sect living with and around him who had  launched an attack on the police killing two policemen on the spot and one other when the police called for reinforcement.

When there was a lull in the gun duel, Yunusa had escaped from the building upon which the locals engaged him in hot pursuit eventually overtaking and apprehending him.

Bomb making equipments and wires were also found in Yunusa's house.

Information retrieved from Yunusa was also used to get other members of the sect who had fled their own states after making it ungovernable with the aim to do same to Kano state.

In the home of one of Yunusa's colleagues, Mohammed Ali, at Darnamawa Quarters, another intended suicide bombing car (Honda)  loaded with 50 litres of petrol and 50 kg cylinders was discovered as well as bomb making machines and gun powder.

Several AK-47s rifles were also found along with ammonia based chemicals and other incendiary materials used in making bombs.

The raids in Kano were proactively initiated by Kano indigenes though the police were eventually called in after discoveries were made.

Apparently, the people of Kano are on edge after the Boko Haram sect released a letter stating that their next target in their jihad against Nigeria was Kano which they intend to make as ungovernable as they have done to Maiduguri. In their letter, emailed to news men by one  Muhammad Abubakar Shekau described as a spiritual head of the sect, Boko Haram promised to wage jihad against Nigeria "until her present constitution is abrogated, her democracy suspended and a full fledged Islamic state established".

This latest round of violence in Kano is leading to an exodus of Southerners from the city.
http://www.naijapundit.com/news/boko-haram-suicide-bombing-foiled-in-kano

I think it's true.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-827907.0.html