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| Boko Harum issues preconditions for dialogue with Nigerian government | |
| 2011-06-15 | |
They demanded that former Governor Ali Modu Sheriff should be prosecuted according to sharia for allowing security agents to kill their sect leader Sheik Mohammed Yusuf in July 2009. The letter also called for the prosecution of the former police commissioner, Christopher Dega, who served during that period of the crisis. The group also insisted that the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) -led government in Borno must resign. It said "We also request for an immediate investigation into the killing of our brothers through food poisoning which was perpetrated by prison warders with the connivance of former Governor Ali Sheriff. Also we want Federal Government to release the report of committee of inquiry set up by late President Umaru Yaradua which was led by former National Security Adviser (NSA), Rtd. Gen Abdullahi Sarki Mukhtar, to investigate the alleged extra-judicial killings of our brothers during the 2009 unrest." The group further said that if federal government cannot fulfill these conditions, then they won't be permitted to participate in any dialogue. They claimed that the deployment of Nigerian troops cannot deter them from carrying out their attacks. "We challenge the government to seek assistance of FBI, CIA, the Israel intelligence agency, Mossad or Interpol, all these security outfits would not stop us from fulfilling our mission," they warned. | |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #1 Didn't they do "a whiter shade of pale" a few years back? |
| Posted by: Sgt. D.T. 2011-06-15 23:44 |