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Africa Subsaharan

ACF demands probe to uncover Boko Haram funding, sponsors

2014-04-24

[DAILYPOST.NG] The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF,) on Monday reacted to the outburst by Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa state on the Federal Government.

Nyako is accusing the

Goodluck Jonathan
... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
's administration for waging war against the north.

The ACF in a press statement issued by their national publicity secretary, Alhaji Muhammadu Ibrahim, insisted that the Federal Government must probe into the governor's allegations to discover the sources of Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
's funding, logistics and also their sponsors.

The organization says it is yet to comprehend how the Boko Haram sect is able to carry out their continuous attacks successfully, despite claims by the military of capturing the myrmidons, and confiscating over 700 of their vehicles.

Posted by:Fred

#4 Left out: indigenenous support by Nigerian politicians and senior military.

See also: Chad.

Posted by: Pappy 2014-04-24 14:45

#3 The genesis of the Ikhwan/Islamist movement in Nigeria is found in the creation of the Jamaat Nasril al-Islam (Association for the Victory of Islam) in 1962. I was a Pan-Nigerian Islamist movement founded by Abubakar Gumi. Later renamed the Yan Izala (short form for the Eradication of Evil Innovation and the Establishment of the Sunnah) in 1978, Gumi was a student of the Ikhwan movement and throughout Nigeria made use of the mass media to transform society using Salafist arguments From the Yan Izala there emerged in the nineteen nineties in Northern Nigeria the Islamic Movement, the precursor of Boko Haram. Led by Shaykh Ibrahim Zak Zaky it was an Islamist organization that openly proclaimed its relationship with the international Muslim Brotherhood. The Islamic Movement, was Sunni, but received some education and training in Iran. It was in constant conflict with the government. Zaky was jailed for two years in 1997, after which the very radical offshoot of the Ikhwan, the Ja'amutu Tajidmul Islami (Movement of Islamic Revival), emerged in the late nineteen nineties. The Boko Haram is only the latest (and the bloodiest) of the Islamist movements founded in the north.

Posted by: Thrusotch and Tenille7340 2014-04-24 10:43

#2 Been reading my suggestions.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-04-24 08:25

#1 Start with Saudi or Iran.

Posted by: Paul D 2014-04-24 07:39

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