The Department of State Services, DSS has announced the capture of one Mohammed Usman, popularly known as Khalid Al-Barnawi in a major breakthrouugh in the fight against insurgency.
Usman, who was captured on Friday, April 1, in Lokoja, Kogi state while he was undercover with a false identity, is a founding member of the Jama’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid Da’wah Wa’l-Jihad (Boko Haram) and later the Amir of the break-away faction, Jama’at Ansarul Muslimim Fi Biladi Sudan (JAMBS).
According to a statement released bu Tony Opuiyo on behalf of the DSS, Khalid AL-BARNAWI is said to be “a trained terrorist commander, who has been coordinating terrorist activities in Nigeria, while talent-spotting and recruiting vulnerable young and able Nigerians for terrorist training by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in North African States and the Middle-East.”
“He was also involved in many terrorist attacks – including Bauchi, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Sokoto and FCT-Abuja – which resulted in the killing and maiming of innocent citizens of this Country.”
The DSS further revealed that Usman is responsible for the bombing of the United Nations building in Abuja, on 26th August, 2011; the kidnapping of two European civil engineers in Kebbi State in May, 2011, and their subsequent murder in Sokoto State; the kidnap of a German engineer, Edgar Raupach in January, 2012, the kidnap and murder of seven expatriate staff of Setraco Construction Company at Jama’are, in Bauchi State in February, 2013, the attack of Nigerian troops at Okene in Kogi State, while on transit to Abuja for an official assignment.
He would soon be charged to Court to face his charges after investigation is completed.
See a picture below
