Source NewsRescue
In
review of the new revelations from President Jonathan’s Chief Boko Haram
negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davis of Australia, it will be useful we reconsider
what we know of Boko Haram, the northeastern terrorist organization.
There are or were two Boko Harams, I
and II.
Boko Haram I: The Yusufiyyah
Movement/ “Nigerian Taliban”
Boko Haram I is better known as and self
identifies as the Yusufiyyah movement. These were the disciples of late
Mohammed Yusuf, the charismatic leader who promoted himself as a messiah and
was expected to reincarnate after he was killed. Boko Haram I was the creation
of ex-Borno Governor Ali Modu Sheriff. Though Mohammed Yusuf founded his
movement since the 90’s, it was Modu Sheriff who armed and utilized these boys
as political thugs; the well known Ecomog forces. After he no longer needed
them, he discarded the armed youth and Mohammed Yusuf took charge of them.
In 2009, following an infraction with the
law, then capable and efficient President late Musa Yar’Adua with his no
nonsense, no dancing and dining with terrorists policy decimated Boko Haram I.
Governor Modu Sheriff cooperated and set-up his “friends” in Boko Haram I to be
apprehended and killed by the Nigerian army. Sect leader Mohammed Yusuf was
killed at this time when he “tried to escape.” For his cooperation against
them, Modu Sheriff earned the hate of several sect members.
Boko Haram I was basically dismantled.
Nigeria witnessed absolute peace in the northeast as Yar’Adua discussed with
northerners and planned strategies to prevent the return of these terrorists.
Muslim leaders in Borno and the north agreed to monitor Mosque sermons and
ensure that radicalism was no longer tolerated and taught anywhere in the
north. Late Yar’Adua had a very efficient long term plan and program, including
strictly security monitored “permits” for all public preachers, to ensure
Nigeria never again witnessed Maitatsine, Yusufiyyah radical type crisis.
Quote: “Yar’Adua also
informed reporters that security agencies had been monitoring and tracking the
activities of Yusuf and Boko Haram for several years. He also revealed with
some degree of detail that Yusuf and Boko Haram have been “organizing,
penetrating our society, procuring arms, and learning how to make explosives
and bombs,” adding that “once the military operation concludes in Maiduguri,
there will be continuous security surveillance all over the northern states to
fish out remnants of the group who are to be dealt with squarely and
promptly.”” [URL: https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09ABUJA1392_a.html]
*End Quote
With the death/murder of President Yar’Adua,
the program in the north was dropped as Goodluck Ebele Jonathan assumed the top
office.
The 2010 Abuja independence day bombing
perpetrated by MEND Niger Delta terrorists suddenly revealed a “great’ idea for
the utility of terror for political success. It is recalled that to the utter
surprise of almost all Nigerians, despite MEND claiming the bombing, the
Nigerian acting President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan suddenly said it was not
MEND, but rather some northern opponents that were behind the bombing. This
publicized falsehood succeeded in creating ethno-religious divides and helped
galvanize and deliver non-Muslim support to Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP
party.
All of a sudden it was clear that creating
and sustaining a northern extremist group that can be pinged on certain alleged
northern opponents will continue to divide the nation and maintain non-Muslim
support for the President.
Enter Boko Haram II: The Ihejirika
Assassins
Boko Haram II was formed in 2011. Enabled by a new lax security effort in the
north with the abandoning of late President Yar’Adua and his NSA Sarki
Mukhtar’s programs; some elements of the Yusufiyyah movement, aka, Boko Haram I
returned with the limited objective to avenge the death of their leader. But
suddenly another group evolved from nowhere in the same space that stunned even
Boko Haram I. This parallel group had radically different principles and agenda
that Boko Haram I simply could not understand.
Nigeria: Boko Haram Sect Splits
http://allafrica.com/stories/201107210066.html
Maiduguri – Confusion has crept into the camp
of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram which has unleashed a reign of terror in the
northern part of the country for several months as the sect has split into two
factions. One faction, the Yusufiyya Islamic Movement, YIM, has vowed to expose
the other faceless group, which it described as evil group.
The Yusufiyya group is made up of followers
of slain leader of the Islamic sect, Mallam Mohammed Yusuf.
This development came as President Goodluck
Jonathan, yesterday, held talks with elders from Borno State, over growing
insecurity in the state, which is believed to be the abode of the sect.
The Yusufiyya Islamic Movement, in a two-page
statement contained in leaflets yesterday, condemned the attacks and bombing of
residences and places of worship by the other sect that claimed to be fighting
a Jihad in the North. The leaflets were distributed on Tuesday to the various
wards, Post Office Area and media houses in Maiduguri, Borno state capital.
Confusion, misinterpretation
The leaflets read in part: “The Yusufiyya
Movement has come to mean different things to different people in the last few
months. This confusion and misinterpretation have made it necessary for us to
come out publicly with the clear truth regarding our concept, struggle, aim and
ultimate objective, as our declaration would guide in distinguishing the
Yusufiyya movement from the various labels ascribed to us, as the Boko Haram.
This is necessary in the light of genuine
concern by individuals and groups to the mass suffering of innocent citizens
caught in the cross fire between our members and the Nigerian troops. This
concern has again brought to the fore, the daunting issue of reconciliation,
through dialogue, with the Nigerian authorities and individual leaders involved
in the naked abuse of our birthright to the peaceful propagation and practice
of our religion as we understand it.”
The sect argued that it was in the process of
exercising their right to propagate their religion as they understood it, that
their leader, Mohammed Yusuf was killed as well as the destruction and
confiscation of their landed and moveable property in Maiduguri. Following
their leader’s murder, the members therefore “resolved to wage a struggle
between justice
and injustice, between truth and falsehood, right against wrong, in which the
sect was sure of victory.”
The statement, however, noted that the public
must know that the Yusufiyya Islamic sect is far from the image of the
heartless terrorists, arsonists or sadistic robbers painted by other people
with a distinct agenda, saying “it is therefore unbecoming to attribute attacks
on the civilian population or places of worship to our group, the Yusufiyya
Islamic Movement”.
Referring to the factions in the Boko Haram
sect, the statement further explained that; “ours is a clear fight for the
blood of our founder, Mohammed Yusuf and other leaders who were slain in cold
blood by former governor of Borno State (names withheld), the former Borno
state commissioner of police and the late President”, adding that the former
president “has since been seized by Allah in an answer to the sect’s prayer for
support against his aggression”.
“We therefore distance our group from all the
bombings targeted at civilians and other establishments and equally condemn
them and pray that Allah expose those who perpetrated them and attributed them
to us.”
Exonerating the Yusufiyya sect from other
factions of Boko Haram sect, the statement declared: “We are concerned that
some people with evil motives have infiltrated our genuine struggle with a
false holy war that is outright un-Islamic. We call on this evil group to
desist, failing which we shall have no option than to expose and hunt them.
“Finally, we have resolved to temporarily
halt our fight against the assassination of our leaders in compliance with the
prohibition of fighting in the holy month of Ramadan.”
*End Quote
Clearly Boko Haram II had been invented and
was well supported, sponsored and had only one agenda: to kill and destroy the
north and displace all inhabitants off the land. Boko Haram I was shocked by
Boko Haram II; could not understand who was behind them and where they came
from and totally rejected their ways as deviant, extreme, unIslamic and
surprising. As read above, Boko Haram I even promised to kill Boko Haram II.
Boko Haram II was a farce; it never really had anything to do with Islam but
just adopted the Boko Haram I platform to hide and perpetrate its ulterior
agenda.
But as late General Andrew Azazi pointed out,
Boko Haram II was superbly funded and given sophistication and capacity. The
leader of Boko Haram II was the first “Abubakar Shekau.”
Abubakar Shekau I was employed by General
Ihejirika and other agents, local and likely foreign to perpetuate programs (a
pogrom) to dismantle the north of Nigeria while continuing to deliver the
invaluable fragmenting political dividend Goodluck Jonathan had enjoyed when he
accused his opponents of the 2010 Abuja independence day bombing.
Boko Haram I, the Yusufyyah movement faded
while Boko Haram II, the Ihejirika movement without any notable consistent
agenda, flourished and perpetrated mayhem on citizens of the north, Muslim and
Christian alike.
At this point, we must realize that Boko
Haram II have never suggested a reasonable, possible and consistent agenda.
They always ensure they ramble nonsense and stay inconsistent. This is because
they have no agenda other than to destroy the north and inflame the polity. The
latest “Caliphate” claim was plagiarized from ISIS in Iraq last month, up until
then, they made no such claim.
They obviously knew they could never conquer
Nigeria and Islamize the entire nation; and they never set out to. They
destroyed all local farmers and sources of food for their own sustenance, which
proved they had no long-term territorial rulership agenda. No one kills and
burns the homes of people they wish to reign over an; and destroys and
displaces the farmers who will feed their “nation.” Boko Haram II simply
set-out to kill all farmers especially (the only/main resource of the north)
from Borno to Benue. They attacked corn and tomato farmers in Borno and rice
farmers in Benue. They killed and destroyed cattle rearers across the Middle
Belt. Over five years of free operation under the supervision of ex-Army Chief
Ihejirika, Boko Haram II succeeded in killing over 100,000 Nigerians residing
in the north and displacing over 4 million farmers; the third largest human
displacement in recent global history.
Boko Haram II were armed by the Nigerian army
under General Azubuike Ihejirika. They obtained armored tanks, APC’s and
weapons from the armory which the Nigerian army ensured never to destroy, even
though everyone in Borno knew the Boko Haram camps where these weapons and
vehicles were and still are kept in plain sight. It can be recollected that
when 234 girls/Angels were abducted from Chibok and the Nigerian army claimed
they did not know where the girls were, it was our ENDS organization that
revealed the camps in Sambisa forest to the entire world, and made every one
cognizant with the fact that these camps were well known, had generators,
fridges, TV’s and the like and that the Nigerian army has been tolerating these
camps and the survival of Boko Haram II for the past five years of the Goodluck
Jonathan government. [Our article of 24th April, 2014: National
Security Update: Details Of The Sambisa Camps Holding Our 200 Abducted
Daughters URL: http://ends.ng/?p=848]
With the abduction of 234 Angels from Chibok,
it is evident Boko Haram II has outwitted itself. The prayers of the oppressed
girls no doubt have begun to unravel the sect in miraculous ways.
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