The Department of State Service
said in Abuja on Tuesday that it had arrested a recruiter for the Islamic State
of Iraq and Syria, Mr.
Abdussalam Enesi Yinusa.
A statement issued by Tony
Opuiyo for the security agency said that the suspect was arrested in Kano.
He said the arrest of the suspect
was sequel to available intelligence which he said indicated his terrorist
antecedents and covert drive to indoctrinate and recruit susceptible youths in
the country.
Opuiyo said in the statement, “On
17th January, 2016, one Abdussalam Enesi YUNUSA, a recruiter for the Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria was arrested in Kano.
“His arrest was sequel to available
intelligence which indicated his terrorist antecedents and covert drive to
indoctrinate and recruit susceptible youths in the country.”
Before his arrest, Opuiyo said
Yunusa had completed arrangements to embark on a journey to join an ISIS
terrorist training camp in Libya, with other Nigerians whom he recruited for
the ‘Islamic State’.
He gave the names of the recruited
ones as Muhammed Rabi’u, Yahaya Jimoh and Zainab Sunday, a female.
He said that Yinusa is a 400 level
undergraduate of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State,
where he was studying for a degree in Information and Media Technology.
Source: Punch Newspaper
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