Nigeria’s Army has arrested the leader of Islamist militant group Ansaru, a splinter faction of Boko Haram.
The Ansaru group has been accused of kidnapping and killing Westerners.
Defence spokesman Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar said Ansaru leader Khalid al-Barnawi was arrested in Lokoja, the capital of the central state of Kogi, on Saturday.
“We have made that giant stride,” said Abubakar.
In 2012 the U.S. State Department named Ansaru leader Khalid al-Barnawi one of three Nigerian militants blacklisted for ties to Boko Haram and al-Qaeda’s north African wing.
He also said some Boko Haram fighters had surrendered to Nigerian troops.
Since assuming office, Muhammadu Buhari has made it a priority of his presidency to defeat Islamist militancy in Africa’s most populace nation, which also has the continent’s biggest economy.
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