The Bornu State police command on Wednesday disclosed that a faction of the dreaded ISIS, the Islamic state of West African province (ISWAP) is operating within the internally displaced camps in Bornu state, North East, Nigeria.
An assistant commissioner of police in Borno, Ahmed Bello made the disclosure while briefing newsmen on security update in the state.
According to Bello, three of the 22 Boko Haram insurgents arrested two months ago were members of ISIS.
He said the insurgents station their stooges at the IDP camps to perpetrate chaos.
Bello said, “We had launched radio programmes aimed at sensitising the larger society on the need to be sensitive of their environment,”
“It will interest you to note that some of the affected victims in camps were not IDPs. We have our ways of rating them to the classes of A.B.C.
“So if you find any suspicious person, do not just send him away, but arrest him because the terrorists have their sympathisers; they are the people that are giving them information.”
Bello revealed that the arrest of the culprit had led to drastic reduction in cases of bomb blasts perpetrated by the insurgents, using improvised explosive device (IED) in the state.