A 27-year-old Nigerian man, Fred Amaechi, suspected of being a member of Boko Haram, has been arrested in Germany.
He was detained on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 in Bavaria and a day later a judge issued an arrest warrant and ordered that he be remanded in custody, the chief federal prosecutor said in a statement, Reuters reports.
“He is strongly suspected of being a member of the foreign terrorist organisation, Boko Haram,” the statement said.
It said Amaechi Fred O. was believed to have joined Boko Haram in 2013 and had admitted to actively taking part in four attacks against Nigerian civilians during his one-year membership of the group.
He is accused of killing several people during two attacks on schools and one attack on a village and taking part in another attack on a village, during which members of Boko Haram took girls as hostages and burned down a church.
Boko Haram is an Islamist terrorist group which has been has been waging a violent campaign since 2009 in Nigeria with the intention of establishing an Islamic caliphate in the secular country. Over 50,000 people have been killed by the terrorist group and 3 million Nigerians displaced.
Buhari Defeats Boko Haram?
Late December 2016, President Muhammadu Buhari declared victory over the Islamist terrorist group after Nigerian troops announced that they have recaptured Camp Zero in Sambisa forest, the base of the deadliest terrorist group in the world.
The Nigerian Army later presented the president with the flag belonging to the terrorist group in a “mission accomplished” ceremony.
Since the declaration a week ahead of Christmas Day 2016, Boko Haram has launched a number of deadly attacks in the North Eastern region of the country where the terrorists have murdered at least 50,000 since they began their campaign to establish an Islamic caliphate in the country.
