ABUJA, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Four suppliers of logistics were nabbed by troops at a checkpoint on their way to deliver consignments to terror group Boko Haram in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, the army said on Tuesday.
The suspects were intercepted in four different trucks by the troops who were on patrol along the Damaturu-Maiduguri highway on Monday, on their way to the hinterland to deliver goods to the Boko Haram group, said Olusegun Adeniyi, theater commander of the army.
Adeniyi said the militants had been using the suspects to deliver a large number of consignments to specific locations of the Boko Haram group.
"The insurgency would have stopped if not for the people who supply them (the Boko Haram militants). Our effort is to arrest illegal businesses aiding the insurgency," the army commander told Xinhua.
The items seized from the suspects included diesel concealed as palm oil; bread, grain, mats, sacks, motorcycle spare parts and items used by the insurgents to produce Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).
The four vehicles containing the items were publicly destroyed on the commander's orders, as he also vowed that the army would prosecute the suspects.
The army official said the military had adopted proactive modalities to cripple the Boko Haram's economy designed to empower them to carry out more attacks.
