After we captured real Boko Haram leader I was retired, arrested & detained—Major General Danjuma

Major General Danjuma Ali-Keffi has revealed that he was punished by the Nigerian authorities after his team captured the real leader of Boko Har am and arrested terrorism financiers.

“There was an operation which I led, the operation servicewide — the counterterrorism — to arrest those terrorism financiers,” he said. “I was the commander of that. I reported straight to the distance.”

Ali-Keffi explained that the mission successfully exposed the real leader of Boko Haram. “As a matter of fact, the leader of Boko Haram… the real leader, we captured. And incidentally or ironically, he’s not even a Nigerian. But he claimed he’s been in Nigeria for some ti me. But he’s not a Nigerian,” he said.

However, instead of being commended, Ali-Keffi said he was punished. “Then, in September, October, thereabout… I was invited for interview at the military police headquarters. I turned up there on the 18t h and I was arrested myself and detained in the cell.”

When asked why he was arrested, he replied: “I don’t know… when I reported there, the interrogators said… I was removed as a General Officer Commanding on the 8th of August 2021. I handed over on the 10t h… and 21 days later I was arrested.”

When asked why he was arrested, he replied: “I don’t know… when I reported there, the interrogators said… I was removed as a General Officer Commanding on the 8th of August 2021. I handed over on the 10t h… and 21 days later I was arrested.”

Ali-Keffi said the operation had captured key figures. “We picked those people… including the leader of the BAR, including five of the key guys… I was invited… and I was arrested. So I didn’t know it w as a set up.”