{"id":28846,"date":"2014-07-01T07:03:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T07:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=28846"},"modified":"2014-07-01T07:03:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T07:03:14","slug":"nigeria-raids-boko-haram-cell-linked-to-abductions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=28846","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria &#8216;raids Boko Haram cell linked to abductions&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">Nigeria&#8217;s military says it has raided a Boko Haram intelligence unit thought to be linked to the recent abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls.<\/p>\n<p>The cell leader Babuji Ya&#8217;ari was arrested, a military statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ya&#8217;ari had been actively involved in the seizure of the girls as well as the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-27641730\">killing in May of a traditional leader<\/a>, the emir of Gwoza, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>More than 2,000 people have been killed this year in attacks blamed on Boko Haram militants.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ya&#8217;ari was a businessman who &#8220;participated actively in the abduction of schoolgirls&#8221; in the northern town of Chibok, the defence ministry statement said.<\/p>\n<p>He used his participation in a civilian vigilante group fighting Boko Haram to cover up his work spying for the militants, the military said, adding that he had co-ordinated <a style=\"text-decoration:none; color: #333;\" href=\"http:\/\/premier-pharmacy.com\/product\/cialis\/\">http:\/\/premier-pharmacy.com\/product\/cialis\/<\/a> &#8220;several deadly attacks in Maidugiri&#8221;, the capital of Borno state, since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The defence ministry said they had also arrested women from the intelligence cell.<\/p>\n<p>The military&#8217;s claims could not be independently verified.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram militants abducted more than 200 girls from their school in Borno state on 14 April. Most are still missing.<\/p>\n<p>The group says it will not free the girls until authorities release all imprisoned militants. The government says it knows where the abductees are, but that a rescue could lead to the girls being killed.<\/p>\n<p>The militants have been blamed for several other recent attacks, including an assault on churches near Chibok on Sunday that killed at least 30 people, and a bomb attack on a busy shopping district in Nigeria&#8217;s capital, Abuja, last week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s military says it has raided a Boko Haram intelligence unit thought to be linked to the recent abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls. The cell leader Babuji Ya&#8217;ari was arrested, a military statement said. Mr Ya&#8217;ari had been actively involved in the seizure of the girls as well as the\u00a0killing in May of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-28846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}