Gen. Shuwa's alleged killer arrested

According to a Radio France International(RFI-Hausa Service) report, the suspected killer of Nigeria's civil war veteran, General Mohammed Shuwa, has been finally nabbed.

The Director of Nigeria's Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Usman, disclosed this breakthrough during an interview with the RFI Hausa.

Colonel Usman said the suspect would soon be paraded before journalists at the 3rd Battalion of the Nigerian Army in Kano. Journalists would be briefed about the details of the arrest. The Army spokesman didn't however disclose the name of the suspect.

General Mohammed Shuwa was assassinated in November 2012 by gunmen suspected to be members of the violent Boko Haram sect. It was the first major high profile killing of an army General by the Boko Haram terrorists.

HERE IS THE HAUSA VERSION OF THE REPORT BY RFI:

Sojin Najeriya sun kama wanda ya kashe Janar Shuwa
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Janar Mamman Shuwa
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Rundunar Sojin Najeriya ta kame mutumin da ake zargi ya kashe Janar Mamman Shuwa daya daga cikin gwarzayen Sojin kasar da suka yi yakin basasa. Daraktan yada labaran rundunar Sojin Kanal Usman Kukasheka ya shaidawa RFI Hausa cewa za a gabatar da mutumin a gaban manema labarai a bataliya da uku a birnin Kano.

A watan Nuwamban 2012 wasu ‘Yan bindiga da ake zargin ‘Yan boko Haram ne suka abka gidan Janar Mamman Shuwa a Maiduguri suka bude ma shi wuta dab da lokacin da ya ke shirin zuwa Sallar juma’a.