Nigeria: SSS Nabs Boko Haram Spokesman, Abu Qaqa

1 February 2012

THE State Security Service (SSS), yesterday, said it had arrested the spokesman of the violent Boko Haram sect, Abu Qaqa.

Confirming the arrest to Associated Press (AP), the Director of the SSS in Borno State, Ahmed Abdullahi, said Abu Qaqa was arrested in Kaduna after his mobile phone signal was tracked for some time.

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