JTF Uncovers Lebanon Terror Camp In The North

As the ongoing onslaught against Boko Haram sect under a State of Emergency regime enters in advanced in three states of the North, the military Joint Task Force has confirmed that it uncovered a Lebanon-based Hezbollah armoury and terror cell in Kano State.

“All those arrested have confessed to have undergone Hezbollah Terrorist Training and further implicated one Fauzi Fawad, a co-owner of Amigo Supermarket and Wonderland Amusement Park [in Abuja].”

Said the new JTF spokesman, Captain Ikedichi Iweha, who added that officials of the 3rd Army Brigade in Kano and the State Security Service conducted the operations in Bompai, Kano.

A Lebanese national currently out of the country reportedly owns the premises where the armoury and the cell were found at No 3, Gaya Road, Off Bompai Road in the ancient city of Kano.

According to Captain Ikedichi Iweha, the operatives uncovered an underground bunker in the premises where large quantities of assorted weapons were hidden.

Iweha, who said the construction of the bunker was special, listed anti-tank weapons, rocket propelled guns and anti-tank/personnel mines as some of the dangerous weapons found in the premises. He added that the weapons and ammunition were concealed in coolers, drums and bags.

Confirming the existence of a Hezbollah cell in the country, Captain Iweha noted that the SSS had arrested Mustapha Fawaz, co-owner of Amigo Supermarket.

The arrest of Fawaz, Captain Iweha said, led to the arrest of another Lebanese terror suspect, Abdullah Tahini, at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport with over $60,000.

This is indeed a major breakthrough by the JTF and the SSS.