ABUJA, Federal Republic of Nigeria. Nigeria’s secret police have arrested a university student accused of recruiting young people to join the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in Syria and Iraq.
Abdussalam Enesi Yunusa was arrested on 17 January in the northern city of Kano after he tried to join an IS training camp in Libya with other people he recruited, the police said in a statement.
Mr Yunusa, who is studying Information and Media Technology in central Niger State, was radicalised and joined a member of an extremist cell who was being trained in Libya.
Last year, Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram pledged allegiance to IS and changed its name to Islamic State in West Africa.
A statement from the police said Abdussalam Enesi Yunusa is part of a terrorist cell funded by a Sudanese man on behalf of IS in West Africa.
A number of people suspected of having links to the militant group have also been arrested, the statement added.
In a related development, the secret police or DSS, say they have arrested five people accused of planning to carry out “terror attacks” in several northern states.
It is not clear whether those arrested have links with militant Islamist group Boko Haram who have been carrying out deadly attacks in the region.
Credit: BBC
