Zanna Bukar Mustapha, a legal practitioner who runs a
school for kids orphaned in the result of Boko Haram
activities, on Sunday, July 6, 2014, said the only way
to stop the Islamist from launching more mayhem in
the country is to involve clerics from Saudi Arabia.
Man claiming to be leader of Nigerian Islamist extremist
group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, in video
screengrab, unknown location, Sept. 25, 2013.
Mustapha, who owns a Maiduguri-based foundation
called "The Future Prowess", made the revelation to
Sunday Trust. He revealed that the sect's leaders
belonged to the Salafi movement which has its
headquarters in the Islamic holy land.
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The lawyer who expressed doubt about the involvement
of the United States and other Western countries
towards putting an end to insurgency insisted that the
best way was to bring clerics from outside the country
who are of the same faith, who may have a better
understanding of the faith which Boko Haram believe in,
so that they can sit with them and dialogue.
He expressed optimism that these Saudi Arabian clerics
would definitely come up with ways of engaging the
sect, noting that not with arms but rather academically
as they poses more superior arguments in judgment, in
knowledge and in what the doctrine truly stands for.
"Muhammed Yusuf, (Abubakar) Shekau and all the rest
are of the Salafi movement. And when you talk of Salafi,
you have to go to Saudi Arabia to get them. When you
get them, you can find an international organization to
organize advanced contact that will bring the Salafis in
Saudi Arabia to go to the prisons and meet the
insurgents that are in the hands of the Federal
Government of Nigeria. By the time the insurgents get a
clear knowledge of what the Salafis stand for, you
release one, two or three of them to go down to the
leadership of the group.
"They can talk to the leadership and they would also
see the girls that are now in captivity. They would
therefore sit and discuss with their own people because
they are not afraid of other sect members. Thereafter,
they would come back to the government. From there,
you go to the second stage of swapping the girls with
the prisoners. They would tell you who and who they
want government to release, and government can decide
those to be released.
"That would also open another window of opportunity
for the peace process. But where you are carrying guns,
sending people to fight where they cannot even fight,
you are even creating a sort of a mutiny within the
military because there are fifth columnists within the
military who don't want the crisis to end.
"There is misunderstanding being imported into the
insurgency that we don't even know. But by the time
you engage in these measures, and put the processes in
order, all shall be well," Mustapha said.
TheCable reports that when Mustapha was asked why
his school has remained operational as well as the only
school that has not been attacked by the Islamist who
have been busy burning schools and killing students in
Maiduguri, which has led to the closing of most schools
in the area, the lawyer revealed that his school was not
picketed because he is trusted by the sect due to his
open mindedness.
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"I have an Islamic foundation that caters for the well-
being of orphans which cuts across various divides and
that does not in any way exclude the insurgents' family
members, widowed and orphaned in the crises. Having
them is a leverage. As you know, we have the Future
Prowess widows who are part of the Parent Teachers
Association, which often guides the making of the
school curriculum.
"We had problems in the curriculum at the early stage of
the school when insurgents' wives complained of the
inclusion of western education in the curriculum. We
changed it to be 'conventional education' instead of
'western education' because when you say western in
Arabic, it means pagan (garbi)".
Meanwhile, Boko Haram onslaughts which have claimed
more than 10,000 innocent lives in the past five years,
attracted the attention of foreign powers, when it
kidnapped over 234 female students from Government
Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State nearly three
months ago http://m.naij.com/news/69229.html

Let the FG act on this now now.

turn down for what? I' il personally.....

I don't believe "Only Clerics From Saudi Arabia Can Stop Boko Haram".

A certain cleric from Daura who's name's Muhammadu Buhari can stop them as well.

Mogidi: I don't believe "Only Clerics From Saudi Arabia Can Stop Boko Haram".

A certain cleric from Daura who's name's Muhammadu Buhari can stop them as well.

ur mumuism is beyond what cld be termed as a spiritual problem

This is a good hint for FG.
By the way, is Saudi sponsoring BH in Nigeria?

This one is beyond Nigerian clerics, Boko haram is islamic

Only the evil Mohammed (PBUH) can make these guys change their minds.
What they need is unrelenting fire power.

only buhari, elrufia ,sanusi and Apc can stop bokoharam
She who gave birth to short baby know how to carry her!

because that is the source of the problem?