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 3
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 alleged drugs find as
proof the insurgents bloody quest to
establish a hardline 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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