The
United States Department of State, on Thursday, formally designated
leaders of violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, as terrorists.
The Department issued a statement in New York announcing the designation of the sect leaders as global terrorists.
The Boko Haram leaders classified as
Specially Designated Global Terrorists under section 1 (b) of Executive
Order 133224 are Abubakar Shekau, Abubakar Adam Kambar and Khalid
al-Barnawi.
Shekau, Kambar and al-Barnawi’s names
entered the infamous global terrorists list on a day that the Joint Task
Force in the north claimed to have arrested one Habibu Bama, a man
suspected to have masterminded the bombing of the force headquarters on
June 16, 2011.
Bama had also been declared wanted in
February by the State Security Service as the mastermind of the UN
office bombing in Abuja and the Christmas Day attack on St. Theresa’s
Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger State.
Boko Haram claimed responsibility for
the attacks and many others that had cumulatively cost the nation over
2,000 lives since the sect started a bombing campaign against the
government.
The US statement said that Shekau was the most visible leader of the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, commonly referred to as Boko Haram.
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