The suspects killed, according to an eyewitness Friday, are Baba Goni and a Boko Haram almirul (local leader) of Mafoni ward in Maiduguri metropolis.
He said: The Mafoni Boko Haram almirul was captured and handed over to men of JTF on Thursday afternoon, as he had been terrorising us with hand guns hidden under his flowing gown. We took the decision of handing over this almirul to enable us live in peace here in Maiduguri.
He continued: We are fully cooperating with soldiers patrolling this area to ensure that our neighbours and other residents that had fled return to their respective houses and places of abode.
At the Bama Road Motor Park, an official of the National Union of Roads Transport Workers (NURTW) told The Guardian Thursday that Baba Goni was arrested by volunteer motor park workers, and handed over the
suspects to security task force in the afternoon. While handing over Goni, a rifle, according to him, was also recovered from him, before he was whisked away by soldiers for interrogation to an undisclosed destination of Maiduguri.
Speaking on the separate incidents, spokesman of JTF, Lt. Col. Sagir Musa, said that residents of Maiduguri were fully cooperating with men of security task force by identifying the fleeing Boko Haram suspects and the ones still living among them.
He cited the recent arrests in Mafoni, Bulunkutu and Ruwan Zafi wards, where some fleeing terrorists were killed in a cross fire on Bama road and Mafoni ward of Maiduguri.
On JTF’s closure of Maiduguri-Bama and Maiduguri-Damboa roads to prevent Boko Haram terrorists from fleeing, he said that the measure was to prevent the supply of arms, ammunition, food and fuel supplies to them.
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