Military arrests 486 suspected Boko Haram members in Abia

                                 
According to report, not less than 486 suspected insurgents including eight females were said to have been arrested by the military personnel of the 144 battalion of the Nigerian Army with base at Asa in Ukwa West council of Abia State.
   But South East governors have ruled out the possibility of terrorist group, Boko Haram, spreading to the region.
  Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano disclosed the position of his colleagues from the region while speaking with State House correspondents after paying a “solidarity visit” to President Goodluck Jonathan in his office yesterday.
  Abia State Information Commissioner, Chief Eze Chikamnayo, who took some reporters to the military camp yesterday to see the suspects said they were arrested around 3:00 a.m. on Sunday along Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway at  Arongwa area called Imo Gate, which is a boundary between Abia and Rivers states.
   He said that the suspects whose ages were from 15 years were traveling on 35 buses from undisclosed northern states to the South South.  He said that they claimed to be going to search for jobs, adding that two of the buses later escaped.