Adamawa Police Nab Boko Haram Kingpin, Recover Murdered Officers' Pistol

The police have come under increasing attacks from the sect in Adamawa. A gun belonging to officers killed in Kaduna by the sect was found in the Fulani man's possession. The police in Adamawa State says Tuesday it has made an important catch - a member of the extremist Boko Haram sect in Mubi, a commercial Town in the state, and recovering a police pistol belonging to policemen slain by the sect at the Kaduna police command.

The gun, a Bareta pistol loaded with 16 rounds of ammunition, was recovered from one Fulani man, who the Adamawa state police was caught after, he was overpowered by the owner of the bike he tried to rob, at a surburb of Mubi town. According to the Adamawa State police commissioner, Adenrele Shinaba, said the motorcyclist stabbed his assailant with a knife he was holding and leaving him to writhe in pain as blood gush out of his body. His cries attracted nearby villagers who thronged to the scene. The police were alerted of the incidence and they rushed to the scene to arrest the  gunman.

Mr. Adenrele, who brandished the recovered Bareta pistol before journalists, said his command's preliminary findings showed the recovered gun was the police gun in the possession of two slain policemen attached to the Kaduna state police command who were attacked by unknown gunmen.

The two policemen were reportedly killed in the attacks and the guns in their possession taken away. 

The arrest of the Fulani man seems an important lead for the police, which have battled hard to fend off attacks from insurgents with virtually  not a single day passing without an incidence of attack either targeted at police formations or on hapless individuals at their places of business.

Until Tuesday, no major arrest was reported in the incidents.

Meanwhile, the Adamawa state police command has promised armed insurgents a bloody confrontation, vowing to give members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect a  "bloodied nose".