About three hundred and twenty persons suspected to be members of Boko Haram Sect were alleged to have been arrested by the Rivers state Police Command, daily trust learnt yesterday in Port Harcourt.
Police sources revealed that the suspects were in about twenty buses when they were picked up at the border point between Rivers and Imo states. They were allegedly coming from Jigawa state when they were apprehended.
Details of the development were hazy as of press time but the suspects were said to have been taken to the police criminal and investigative department where they are being quizzed by the Police investigators.
Our reporter gathered further from a security source that after searching the suspects for arms the Police later asked them to write their statements. "They searched each of them. And also searched the various buses they came in with after which the Police asked them to write their statements", a source said.
When contacted for comment, the state Police Commissioner, Mr Joseph Mbu said the state Police command would not speak on the issue until investigation was concluded.
" It is a top security issue. I don't know who gave you the information and I will not want to ask. But there can be no comment for now from the state Police Command until we finish investigation. I will make no comment" he said
A source who pleaded anonymity told our reporter the suspects were in. Port Harcourt on a business and may not be Boko Haram members. He gave the name of the driver who led the various vehicles as Bala Nato Dambam. " They sell carrots and do cobbing jobs in Port Harcourt. They are not Book Haram members", the source said.
The source said that some of the buses thay conveyed the suspects belonged to a transport firm that plies Port Harcourt and Jegawa.
When contacted on the development, Chief of Staff Government House, Port Harcourt, Mr Tony Okocha said they would wait for the outcome of Police investigation on the issue.
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