Senator Ahmed Zanna is scheduled to appear before operatives of the State Security Service today to answer questions over allegations that a top Boko Haram commander was found at his home in Maiduguri on Thursday.
The SSS invitation to Zanna (PDP, Borno Central) came as he insisted yesterday that the arrested sect member, Shuaibu Mohammed Bama, was not found in his house but in the house of a former Borno State governor.
On Friday, the Joint Task Force announced that they captured Bama at the home of a serving senator along Damboa Road in Maiduguri without naming the senator. Zanna happens to be the only serving senator whose home is along that road.
But Zanna told journalists in Abuja yesterday that the JTF operatives were only trying to frame him up because he recently criticised them over disregard for rules of engagement.
"This morning (yesterday), I saw a text that the SSS DG will want to see me on Monday (today)...I will honour the invitation," Zanna said, adding he does not know what will happen when he sees the SSS boss Ita Ekpeyong.
When Daily Trust contacted SSS spokesperson Marilyn Ogar last night, she said she was not aware of the invitation.
Zanna will be the second serving senator to be quizzed by the SSS over links with Boko Haram after Senator Mohammed Ndume, who is now standing trial over alleged sponsorship of the sect which he denied.
'Ex-gov's home, not my home'
Giving his account of the JTF raid on his house, Zanna yesterday said soldiers searched his home on Thursday and rounded up some boys found there, before proceeding to the ex-governor's home along Rabi Road, off Damboa Road, in Maiduguri where they arrested Bama.
"On Thursday, they (JTF) went to my house. I was in Warri at that time; I went for an oversight function. My wife called me, she said the army people were at our gate. Actually, they went with four armoured vehicles and about 40 of them came to my house," he said.
"They searched all the rooms and when they went to the children's room, they broke all their cabinets and searched everywhere. When they could not find anything, then they assembled all the boys, took them out and put them under the scorching sun. Actually, before doing that they beat them up, we had to take them to hospital later.
source:dailytrust
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