Lagos (AFP) - Nigeria's military said on Tuesday it had
made a number of arrests after intercepting a vehicle allegedly carrying fuel
and drugs for Boko Haram Islamists waging a six-year-old insurgency in the
northeast.
"Following...directives to troops in the northeast
for a painstaking search of motorists and cargoes, troops of the Third Division,
Nigerian Army, have intercepted and arrested some kingpins and foot soldiers of
suppliers of Boko Haram terrorists with hard drugs and other stimulants,"
the army said in a statement.
It said the seizure was made on Tuesday between the
towns of Depchi and Geidam in Yobe state, a hotbed of the Boko Haram
insurgency.
Besides drugs, the suspects were also transporting fuel,
the statement said, without saying how many people had been arrested.
The army claimed the drugs find as proof the insurgent’s
bloody quest to establish a hard-line Islamic state in northeast Nigeria was a
sham.
The use of drugs is prohibited in Islam, except for
medicinal purposes.
Boko Haram's insurgency has killed an estimated 15,000
people and displaced some 2.1 million others since 2009.
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