Mr Usman is a self-styled Emir of ANSARU accused of coordinating multiple terrorist sleeper cells across the country
The SSS had, in April 2016, arrested Mr Al-Barnawi in Lokoja, Kogi State, five years after the attack on the Abuja UN Building.
The alert follows multiple security breaches around Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory.
Minority Leader of the Senate, Phillip Aduda, disclosed the ultimatum to press after a mass walkout by his colleagues.
The outgoing commander says there’s a need to “limit destabilisation and prevent the expansion of violent extremist organisations.”
Besides political opposition and civil society groups who criticised Mr Buhari’s directive as overly distasteful and self-serving, violent outlaws also took note of the president’s pardon
The nation’s State Security Service (SSS) in April 2016 described Mr Al-Barnawi’s capture as “a major milestone in the counterterrorism fight of this service.”
