Boko Haram Islamists waging a six-year-old insurgency in the northeast.
"Following...directives
to troops in the northeast for a painstaking search of motorists and
cargoes, troops of the 3 Division Nigerian army have intercepted and
arrested some kingpins and foot soldiers of suppliers of Boko Haram
terrorists with hard drugs and other stimulants," the army said in a
statement.
It said the
seizure was made on Tuesday between the towns of Depchi and Geidam in
Yobe state, a hotbed of the Boko Haram insurgency.
Besides drugs the suspects were also transporting fuel, the statement said, without saying how many people had been arrested.
The
army claimed the alleged drugs find as proof the insurgents bloody
quest to establish a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria was a
sham.
The use of drugs is prohibited in Islam, except for medicinal purposes.
Boko Haram's insurgency has killed an estimated 15,000 people and displaced some 2.1 million others since 2009.
Source: AFP
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