A driver suspected to be purchasing fuel and food items for Boko Haram insurgents, Mallam Modu Mustapha, has been arrested by men of the Borno Police Command.
Speaking in Maiduguri, the state capital, on Sunday, the State Police Commissioner, Damian Chukwu said the suspect was arrested following a tip-off from the public.
The police boss said that the driver usually fetched firewood in the bush, from where he was suspected to have met the terrorists
He said, “The police have received information that one Modu Mustapha of Jumptilo village was a terrorists’ collaborator, who buys fuel and food for them, at Alagarno and other hideout.
“The police descended on the suspect, who has confessed to the crime.
“He said that he had been buying things for the insurgent group.
“We recovered N10, 000 from the suspect, which the terrorists gave him to buy bicycle spare parts for them.”
Chukwu disclosed that the suspect also named 15 other firewood vehicle drivers, who engaged in similar crime.
Noting that the Police were yet to establish the motive of the driver buying things for the insurgents, Chukwu said, “we have not been able to establish his reasons for buying things for them, whether he is under the influence of spell, coerced into doing it, or doing it willingly as their collaborator.”
