Since Isis began its insurgency, it has successfully appealed to Muslim hardliners all over the world to join its cause and has attracted several wiling Nigerian recruits. Mr Yunusua, who was arrested in Kano along with some recruits, was said to be enroute to Libya to join up with the group after a visit to Nigeria to presumably find recruits.
DSS spokesman Tony Opuiyo, said: “Yunusa’s arrest was sequel to available intelligence which indicated his terrorist antecedents and covert drive to indoctrinate and recruit susceptible youths in the country.”
He added that the DSS had made a wave of related arrests in recent weeks, including that of Obansa Salami, Ejide Tijani aka Abu Uwaise II, Mohammed Rabiu aka Ubida II, Zainab Mohammed and Abdulqadir Salisu Ahmad in Kano while they were migrating to Libya, with their immediate families in a bid to join Isis. Another budding extremist cell affiliated to Isis in Daura was also smashed, while one Ibrahim Mohammed Daura, Zaharadeen Salisu and five other elements of the proscribed extremist group, Ansaru, were arrested by the service too.
According to the DSS, this group was discovered in an active stage, as its members were already coordinating themselves for attacks in Katsina and Kano. Mr Opuiyo added that the DSS had also busted a network of syndicated kidnap gangs spanning different regions in the country, especially in the Federal Capital Territory, Kebbi, Zamfara, Niger, Nasarawa, Oyo and Osun States.
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