A group claiming to be a faction
of the Jamatu Ahlis Sunnah lil
daawati wal jihad sect, popularly
known as Boko Haram, said on
Monday that it decided to
ceasefire in Maiduguri because
they had come to a realization
that Muslims suffer from the
attacks.
The group is led by one Abu
Mohamed Abdulazeez who claims
to be the second in command in
the sect’s leadership hierarchy. He
also claimed to have spoken on
behalf of the overall leader of the
sect, Abubakar Shekau.
Mr. Abdulazeez, who spoke in
Hausa language, told journalists in
Maiduguri that it decided to end
the crisis so that fellow Muslims
can live peacefully.
“We, on our own, in the top
hierarchy of our movement under
the leadership of Imam Abubakar
Shekau, as well as some of our
notable followers agreed that our
brethren in Islam, both women
and children are suffering
unnecessarily; hence we resolved
that we should bring this crisis to
an end,” he said.
Mr. Abdulazeez, who also said he
heads the Southern and Northern
Borno cells of the sect, told
reporters that the announcement
of the ceasefire followed a series
of meetings it held with the
government of Borno State where
it got commitments from the
government that its members in
captivity will be released.
“We have also told the
government to try to live up to
our demands that our members
in detention should be released.
“We hope the government will not
betray us this time around,
because we all know that it was
because of the continued
detentions of our members that
this crisis continued for this long.
And if government fails to do as it
now promised, then this conflict
will never have an end,” he said.
Mr. Abdulazeez called on the
members of the sect to lay down
their arms and asked government
to arrest anyone who took up
arms and carried attacks in the
name of the sect.
“We, therefore, called on all those
that identify themselves with us
and our course, to from today lay
down their arms. Let every
member who hears this
announcement relay it to the next
member who hasn’t heard.
“We have met with the Borno
State Government on two
occasions and the fallout of the
meeting is to ceasefire. Presently
we are going to comply with the
ceasefire order and by the time
we are done with that, then
government security agencies can
go ahead to arrest whoever they
find carrying arms or killing under
our names,” he said.
A factional group
Mr. Idris claimed that the sect is
factionalised. But he said that
those who matter within the sect
have embraced the ceasefire.
“Of course there is a faction
within us, but the larger faction of
our movement is the one in
support of this cease fire moves”.
“This message, by the Grace of
Allah, comes directly from the
office of Imam Abubakar Shekau,
the supreme leader of Jamaatul
ahlil Sunna lidawati wal Jihad.
“Moreover, once top members of
our group including Imam
Abubakar Shekau are in support
of the need to cease fire, other
smaller factions can be dealt with
easily,” Mr. Idris said.
Mr. Shekau, had on several
occasions announced that the
group will not dialogue with the
government citing instances
where the sect’s appointed
emissaries to dialogue were
arrested by security agents.
He repeated the same stance in
the last video uploaded on online
video sharing site -you tube – last
October.
The Federal Government had also
stated its difficulty in negotiating
with the sect.
In a media chat in November last
year, Mr. Jonathan said no form of
dialogue was taking place
because the sect is faceless.
However, in an interview with
Aljazeera last week Mr. Jonathan
acknowledged that “some NGOs
and Journalists are reaching out
to Boko Haram.”

y wuld they be released? were they nt found guilty?

“government security agencies can
go ahead to arrest whoever they
find carrying arms or killing under
our names,”.... The guy's prolly high.. JTF been dey let una go b4?

Na today?

So these boko people have been having series of meetings with Northern governments and yet they claim they are faceless.

Mynd_44: Na today?

ask them o!!!!

mki: So these boko people have been having series of meetings with Northern governments and yet they claim they are faceless.

You just dey jam?