The dreaded Boko Haram sect struck today in Borno state as the insurgents waylaid commercial motorists on a highway in the state, gunning down four persons, kidnapping two and injuring three others. Sabon Gari village is located in southern part of Borno State, about 78 miles from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. It started earlier.
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Who are Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorists? The three forgers now operating in the Nigerian capital, Abuja are all former employees of the French company, Thales Security System, justifying the position held by the Chadian minister of Communication that the French were behind the Nigerian Islamic sect, Boko Haram. It is strictly an ideology on ground in some parts of the world for quite sometimes now.
“It has nothing to do with being employed by politicians or being used as political thugs”.
On the genesis of the Boko Haram crisis, Ibrahim said: “It all started, we were told, in Egypt during the reign of Gammal Abdel Naseer, who died in 1970”.
The fight against the terror group has escalated recently, with Nigeria’s neighbors, Chad, Cameroon and Niger, joining in the fight.
“Unwittingly, and I dare say, unintentionally, the application of the Leahy law amendment by the US government has aided and abetted the Boko Haram terrorist group in the prosecution of its extremist ideology and hate, the indiscriminate killings and maiming of civilians, in raping of women and girls, and in other heinous crimes”. There are 6,600 orphans in a camp alone.
Senator Ibrahim decried the wanton destructions caused by the insurgents, which he said would take the people and places affected up to 20 years to recover from the aftermath. “The issue of youths’ unemployment worsened it, with unemployed youths serving as large army of recruitment for the insurgents”.
As parts of Nigeria fell under British control in 1903, locals came to view western education with suspicion, and this resistance continued as Nigeria gained independence, with many muslim families refusing to send their children to government run “western schools”. “Two hundred and seventeen of them are presently staying in my house in Damaturu among who are 40 primary and 50 secondary school pupils that are now schooling in Damaturu”, he said.
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Borno State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Zanna Mustapha has described the speculated pleas by the Boko Haram to negotiate with the Federal Government as a welcomed idea.
