Army Public Relations Acting Director, Col. Sani Usman, said on Tuesday that troops had arrested a financier of the Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State.
In a statement, Usman said that that the man, identified as Mohammed Maina, was arrested in Bama with N1m cash on him.
He revealed that the suspect was also a supplier of kola nuts and other stimulants to the insurgents.
The Army spokesman stated that the suspect, a native of Shuari Village in Bama Local Government Area, might have been collecting monetary contributions from Boko Haram sympathisers along the Maiduguri-Dikwa-Kulli axis of the state