DSS Unravel ISIS Training Cell In Kano

Leadership / Nigeria: The State Security Service has busted a training cell of the terrorist group, ISIS, in in Kano and arrested five persons.

LEADERSHIP Friday gathered that the suspects were arrested on their way to Libya and other African countries.

The SSS director in the state, Abdullahi Chiranchi, told journalists yesterday that the arrest was a major breakthrough in ensuring that Kano does not become a training ground for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, ISIS.

According to him, those arrested were from Kogi State and were on transit to Libya, Morocco and other places with ISIS presence.

The SSS director, however, did not disclose their names.

Mr. Chiranchi also said a nine-man international cattle rustling, armed robbery, kidnapping and car-snatching gang was arrested.

He said the gang had been terrorising Kano, Kaduna and residents of Niger Republic.

According to him, those who arrested include some persons who broke into the house of a former National Security Adviser, Mukthar Mohammed, a retired air vice marshal.