DSS also said on 17 January, 2016, in Daura township of Daura LGA, Katsina State, another budding extremist cell affiliated to ISIS, was busted by the Service.
According to the intelligence agency one Ibrahim Mohammed Daura, Zaharadeen Salisu and five other elements of the proscribed extremist group, Ansaru, were arrested by the Service.
“This group was discovered in an active stage, as its members were already co-ordinating themselves for attacks in Katsina and Kano States,” the service said.
In continuation of harvests of arrests, the intelligency agency also revealed that on 22nd January, 2016, it intercepted five individual who were on their way to Libya with their families in their bid to join ISIS.
Those intercepted, according to the DSS include Obansa Salami, Ejide Tijani aka Abu Uwaise II, Mohammed Rabiu aka Ubida II, Zainab Mohammed and Abdulqadir Salisu Ahmad.
The Service said the five individuals were arrested in Kano by its operatives while migrating to Libya, with their immediate families including infants, in a bid to join ISIS.
“This group was apprehended after painstaking monitoring of its network and plans,” DSS said.
Also, DSS said on 29 January, 2016, it arrested one Mohammed Aliyu Ndako, a seventeen (17) year old undergraduate student of a tertiary institution in the State in Kwara State sequel to credible intelligence on his plans with one Abdulkadir Salisu Ahmad a.k.a Daddy Tall, another student in Kano State, to carry out coordinated lone-wolf attacks on selected populated targets in Nigeria preferably worship centres or recreation venues.
The Service revealed that the suspect had hitherto been communicating with foreign extremist elements, while sourcing online terrorist training and support.
Also, the DSS said between the month of December 2015 and February 2016, it busted the network of syndicated kidnap gangs spanning different regions in the country, especially Kebbi, Zamfara, Niger, Nasarawa, FCT, Oyo and Osun States.
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