The National Intelligence Agency has arrested an arms smuggler to Al-Shabaab five months after the agency seized two illicit shipments containing military equipment and explosive materials at the Mogadishu sea port.
In a statement issued on Friday, the intelligence agency revealed that 28-year-old Zakaria Kamal Sufi Ababa Sheikh, also known as Zaki, was arrested while trying to enter an area controlled by Al-Shabaab without specifying the location.
According to the statement, Kamal is the mastermind behind a network responsible for purchasing military equipment from abroad for Al-Shabaab. The intelligence agency confirmed that the group hid military equipment within commercial shipments, which the agency had seized at the Mogadishu seaport in May of this year.
The agency also arrested ten people linked to a smuggling network, but government officials did not provide further details about the components of the seized shipments, where they came from, or the identities of those involved.
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