Security operatives of the Joint Task Force have thwarted an attempt by the Boko Haram Islamic sect to hoist what they said would have been their national flag, “a yellow, white and red stripes” with weapons of mass destruction inscribed, at the centre in Damaturu, Yobe State capital which sources said is scheduled to be the headquarters of the Boko Haram nation.

The disclosure was made just as security sources said indigenes of Borno, Bauchi, Yobe and other states harbouring the sect’s ‘cells’ are under immense pressure and fear owing to threats on them to support the group with funds by a percentage of their salaries or profits made from their businesses, which is said to be non negotiable.

Failure to remit such money is most times met with the killing of a loved member of that family or the family is wiped out. That is why the sources of funding for the Islamic sect have been difficult to trace, the source said.



Why Policemen, other security agents are targets

Another mode of funding for the sect, according to the security sources, is the daily killing of security agents particularly the police, soldiers of the JTF, armed Customs and Immigration officials.

Vanguard was told that there was a reward of N5,000 for each security personnel killed and if such a security agent killed has a rifle and the killer or killers succeed in collecting his rifle for the sect, the reward is N10, 000. Hence, the killing of security agents by members of the group is seen as a source of generating funds and acquiring arms and ammunition for the group.

According to the source, the source of arms for the sect members has also been traced to the porosity of the nation’s borders especially those of Niger, Chad and Cameroon through which most of the weapons used in the Arab Spring crises find their way to the country.

The source noted that allegation of killing of innocent indigenes, especially during crossfire with the sect by the JTF was ‘political talk’ especially since great efforts through intelligence and surveillance are carried out by the JTF before they strike.

The source added that such efforts had always yielded unquantifiable discoveries in large stockpile of IEDs, AK 47 rifles, GPMGs and hundreds of thousands of live ammunition.

Vanguard has, consequently, learnt that it was this mode of killing for financial benefits by Boko Haram adherents that has been the stumbling block to officers of security agencies, who when they are deployed to Maiduguri, Damaturu, Potiskum, Mubi, Bauchi, Jos and parts of Kaduna among others protest vehemently and embark on all sorts of lobbying to prevent their being posted to areas considered Boko Haram states.

It would be recalled that recent mass transfer of Police officers especially those from the South-East and South-South to parts of the North recently, experienced such protestations as most of the officers threatened to resign than allow themselves to be used as guinea pigs.


Security operatives of the Joint Task Force have thwarted an attempt by the Boko Haram Islamic sect to hoist what they said would have been their national flag, “a yellow, white and red stripes” with weapons of mass destruction inscribed, at the centre in Damaturu, Yobe State capital which sources said is scheduled to be the headquarters of the Boko Haram nation.

The disclosure was made just as security sources said indigenes of Borno, Bauchi, Yobe and other states harbouring the sect’s ‘cells’ are under immense pressure and fear owing to threats on them to support the group with funds by a percentage of their salaries or profits made from their businesses, which is said to be non negotiable.

Failure to remit such money is most times met with the killing of a loved member of that family or the family is wiped out. That is why the sources of funding for the Islamic sect have been difficult to trace, the source said.



Why Policemen, other security agents are targets

Another mode of funding for the sect, according to the security sources, is the daily killing of security agents particularly the police, soldiers of the JTF, armed Customs and Immigration officials.

Vanguard was told that there was a reward of N5,000 for each security personnel killed and if such a security agent killed has a rifle and the killer or killers succeed in collecting his rifle for the sect, the reward is N10, 000. Hence, the killing of security agents by members of the group is seen as a source of generating funds and acquiring arms and ammunition for the group.

According to the source, the source of arms for the sect members has also been traced to the porosity of the nation’s borders especially those of Niger, Chad and Cameroon through which most of the weapons used in the Arab Spring crises find their way to the country.

The source noted that allegation of killing of innocent indigenes, especially during crossfire with the sect by the JTF was ‘political talk’ especially since great efforts through intelligence and surveillance are carried out by the JTF before they strike.

The source added that such efforts had always yielded unquantifiable discoveries in large stockpile of IEDs, AK 47 rifles, GPMGs and hundreds of thousands of live ammunition.

Vanguard has, consequently, learnt that it was this mode of killing for financial benefits by Boko Haram adherents that has been the stumbling block to officers of security agencies, who when they are deployed to Maiduguri, Damaturu, Potiskum, Mubi, Bauchi, Jos and parts of Kaduna among others protest vehemently and embark on all sorts of lobbying to prevent their being posted to areas considered Boko Haram states.

It would be recalled that recent mass transfer of Police officers especially those from the South-East and South-South to parts of the North recently, experienced such protestations as most of the officers threatened to resign than allow themselves to be used as guinea pigs.


Security operatives of the Joint Task Force have thwarted an attempt by the Boko Haram Islamic sect to hoist what they said would have been their national flag, “a yellow, white and red stripes” with weapons of mass destruction inscribed, at the centre in Damaturu, Yobe State capital which sources said is scheduled to be the headquarters of the Boko Haram nation.

The disclosure was made just as security sources said indigenes of Borno, Bauchi, Yobe and other states harbouring the sect’s ‘cells’ are under immense pressure and fear owing to threats on them to support the group with funds by a percentage of their salaries or profits made from their businesses, which is said to be non negotiable.

Failure to remit such money is most times met with the killing of a loved member of that family or the family is wiped out. That is why the sources of funding for the Islamic sect have been difficult to trace, the source said.



Why Policemen, other security agents are targets

Another mode of funding for the sect, according to the security sources, is the daily killing of security agents particularly the police, soldiers of the JTF, armed Customs and Immigration officials.

Vanguard was told that there was a reward of N5,000 for each security personnel killed and if such a security agent killed has a rifle and the killer or killers succeed in collecting his rifle for the sect, the reward is N10, 000. Hence, the killing of security agents by members of the group is seen as a source of generating funds and acquiring arms and ammunition for the group.

According to the source, the source of arms for the sect members has also been traced to the porosity of the nation’s borders especially those of Niger, Chad and Cameroon through which most of the weapons used in the Arab Spring crises find their way to the country.

The source noted that allegation of killing of innocent indigenes, especially during crossfire with the sect by the JTF was ‘political talk’ especially since great efforts through intelligence and surveillance are carried out by the JTF before they strike.

The source added that such efforts had always yielded unquantifiable discoveries in large stockpile of IEDs, AK 47 rifles, GPMGs and hundreds of thousands of live ammunition.

Vanguard has, consequently, learnt that it was this mode of killing for financial benefits by Boko Haram adherents that has been the stumbling block to officers of security agencies, who when they are deployed to Maiduguri, Damaturu, Potiskum, Mubi, Bauchi, Jos and parts of Kaduna among others protest vehemently and embark on all sorts of lobbying to prevent their being posted to areas considered Boko Haram states.

It would be recalled that recent mass transfer of Police officers especially those from the South-East and South-South to parts of the North recently, experienced such protestations as most of the officers threatened to resign than allow themselves to be used as guinea pigs.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/army-blocks-move-by-boko-haram-to-hoist-flag-in-damaturu/

These Ali Babas are hopping mad!

Olorun ma ba ti iya won je ni. Awon oloriburuku deydey. Ojo gbo gbo n ti Ole , ojo kan n ti olohun. E sa jeki gbo were ti e n danwo ni maiduguri yin mor nibe. Ti e ba se were de eko. Gbogbo awon gambari yin ma losi. Eko n reke.

Yellow = desert
white = agbada
red = (u wan mek I shout ?)

retarded bastards

The LokI: retarded bastards

Walahi Omo Ale niwon. Yoruba so pe. Ti ilu kan ba n toro... Omo ale ibe ni o ti dagba.

Buhari wants 2 hoist flag,his patience is running off..cnt even wait 4 2015

N5000 reward for killing a security operative is damn too small. So these fools can lay their lives for something so meagre? What a shame.

nawaa 4 all these journalists...dem nor get news....they'll now concoct stories from unnamed security sources...story story

oh today was probably mearnt to b their independence day...sowi guyz u may nid to xtend d date'Boko de haram'.i sori for dem its a mission Impossible.

Gush, has these guys realy gone wako or mad?

Rooneyboy: man's life is now worth 5k ?

That's the height of poverty.

no it is the heigh of stupidiy

Imagn Bokoharam commander becums naija presidnt 2015.

Second to comment

Happy sallah somebody!

All this Boko haram stuff is a monster that the northern elites have created and now this monster has found a way of feeding off their own people directly. The nigerian state has never been known to solve any problem, at best it is swept under the carpet and they cannot do that in this instance

hbpeze: Buhari wants 2 hoist flag,his patience is running off..cnt even wait 4 2015

Provide incontrovertible proof that Buhari is a sponsor of Boko Haram.

Hmmmmm

HNosegbe:

Provide incontrovertible proof that Buhari is a sponsor of Boko Haram.

Buhari may not be a sponsor, but what the hell has he done to help quell d insurgency since it startd. This is smone who wantd to be President wit a lot of influence in d north, yet whenever he talks its about 2015 and not about the daily killings going on in his own backyard.

HNosegbe:

Provide incontrovertible proof that Buhari is a sponsor of Boko Haram.

Provide incontovertible proof that he is not.

hbpeze: Buhari wants 2 hoist flag,his patience is running off..cnt even wait 4 2015

Only foo.ls and zombies will make statements like this and will have no evidences to back up their facts.
Your evidences pls??

taharqa: Buhari may not be a sponsor, but what the hell has he done to help quell d insurgency since it startd. This is smone who wantd to be President wit a lot of influence in d north, yet whenever he talks its about 2015 and not about the daily killings going on in his own backyard.

Please go and read. Buhari has severally condemned BH attacks and distanced himself from them. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of his, but I just HATE it when people make unsubstantiated claims because they don't like the personality involved.

goldylock: Provide incontovertible proof that he is not.

Madam, if you have proof that Buhari is a BH financier, why not come out with it rather than spewing trash?

Stop being sensational please.

Journalists and source/s are like bread and butter.

taharqa: Buhari may not be a sponsor, but what the hell has he done to help quell d insurgency since it startd. This is smone who wantd to be President wit a lot of influence in d north, yet whenever he talks its about 2015 and not about the daily killings going on in his own backyard.

GBAM!

purpinkx: Yellow = desert
white = agbada
red = (u wan mek I shout ?)

Lol..

Red = Blood letting.

Yellow, white and red? I thought it would hv been more daring like green, white and green with wmd in the middle with signature of the northern governors.