THE Boko Haram sect, on Tuesday, vowed to continue its attacks until its demands are met.
In an apparent reaction to the report submitted to the Federal
Government by the Ambassador Gaji Galtimari-led committee, which called
for dialogue and negotiation with the group,
the spokesman of the group, Abu Qaqa, in a telephone interview with
newsmen in Maiduguri, distanced the group from the report and vowed to
continue the attacks until their earlier demands were met.
The Galtimari committee submitted its report to government on Monday,
with recommendations aimed at putting a stop to the spate of bombings
and killings being perpetrated by the sect in the country.
The Boko Haram spokesperson said that the group was not satisfied
with the members of the ''so-called committee'' and that those who were
advising the Federal Government to involve the Sultan of Sokoto and some
emirs in the North-East were doing so at their own peril. According to
him, the group regarded the Sultan as government official and not the
leader of the Muslim Ummah in Nigeria.
Their demands, according to the spokesman, include severe punishment
for those who extra-judicially killed their leader, Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf
and other members of the sect in the July 2009 uprising, reconstruction
of their places of worship, which were destroyed by security agencies
in Maiduguri and other states of the federation, immediate release of
all their members, who were detained, while appropriate compensation
must be paid to them for all their properties destroyed by security
agencies in the country.
The group also warned the general public, particularly the press, to
desist from taking any statement from Ali Tishau. According to them,
Tishau was initially not their member, as he was sent by security
agencies to investigate their activities, but converted to Islam and
became a full member but later opted out and is now out to tarnish their
image.
Meanwhile, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant-General
Azubuike Ihejirika, has revealed that some foreign countries are in
league with members of the deadly Islamic sect, Boko Haram and are
providing them with facilities for terror.
Although the army chief did not name the foreign countries involved,
he said Boko Haram members received funding and training from such
nations.
General Ihejirika made the revelation on Tuesday, while fielding
questions from newsmen at the Chief of Army Staff Third Quarter
Conference 2011, at the Army Headquarters Command, Officers’ Mess,
Abuja.
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