Hmmm

God will help them get out in peace.

ok

we should always pray for dem...some re d only hope of dere parents

You think you can milk more cash out of buhari like Jonathan ? No way

Hypocrisy is when Buhari is ready to negotiate with Those blood sucking Morons called boko haram and refuse to look into the Agitation of the biafrans and see how to Salvage the situation.. So Much gor being a repentant Democrat

Brothers of Liar Muhammed this better be true

Jst observing

lies

Okay. Thank God they are still alive. In other word, see the FOOTBALL PROPHECIES FOR 2016.

Ebukaobi:
That will be good news indeed

IPOB Youths will not like this

yes, because we are the people of truth and hate lies.

Okay. Thank God they are still alive. In other word, see the FOOTBALL PROPHECIES FOR 2016.

[b] 1. Barcelona will win the la liga and the Champions League back to back for the first time. 2. Arsenal will lose Home and Away to Barcelona in the UCL. 3. Chelsea will qualify to Q/final ahead of PSG. 4. Man city will not qualify to quarter final despite an easy draw against Dynamo kyev. 5. Man utd will end their unwinning streak in their first match in January. 6. Chelsea's Hiddink will not lose a match in January. 7. Bayern Munich will win the Bundesliga. 8. Tottenham Hotspur will win the EPL. 9. Leicester City will make the Top 4. 10. Man utd and Chelsea will not make the top four. 11. Ighalo and Lukaku will end up the two highest goal scorers in the EPL. 12. Lionel Messi will win the world best. 13. Juventus will claim the Seria A title again. 14. PSG will win the French League. 15. Suarez will be the Highest Goal Scorer in La Liga. 16. Benitez will be sacked before the end of his tenure in Real Madrid. 17. Mourinho will take charge of Man utd but will not still make top four. 18. Real Madrid will drop out at the Quarter Final of the UCL.[/b]

enygmababe MrPeterson Psalm18 TheFreeOne

[size=14pt]Who is Ahmad Salkida? Read what's below.[/size]

naptu2:
I've found it.

Ahmad Salkida is a journalist who knew Mohammed Yusuf (the founder of Boko Haram) and reported on his activities. He was accused by some of being a Boko Haram member and was almost killed by the police in 2009. He eventually fled to the United Arab Emirates.

He was brought back to Nigeria in June 2014 by the Federal Government to act as a mediator between the Federal Government and Boko Haram in talks that were aimed at securing the released of the captured Chibok girls. He was assured by the Presidency that he would not be arrested or harmed.

He brokered a deal for the release of the Chibok girls in exchange for the release of some Boko Haram members that are being held by the government. The Federal Government backed out of the deal at the last minute.

[size=14pt]Boko Haram from the beginning[/size]

By Our Reporter on May 18, 2014

COVER

Ahmad Salkida, a former journalist with the Daily Trust, was with the Boko Haram sect from inception and had a close relationship with the sect’s founder, Mohammed Yusuf. Accused of being a Boko Haram accomplice, Salkida was detained and almost got killed in the clash between the Boko Haram and security agencies in 2009 during which the sect leader was captured and later killed in police custody. This article written in 2009 by Salkida, who is now believed to be on exile, gave an insight into the evolution of the Boko Haram group. He also made reference to Abubakar Shekau who later emerged the sect’s leader after Yusuf.

I have closely followed the activities of the Boko Haram sect. In fact, I was invited by the late Mohammed Yusuf at that period to establish and head an Al-mizzan styled newspaper for him. However, in the course of our delibera­tions, I tabled the following issues that set us apart: I wanted to be partner in the project. I wanted editorial freedom to edit out anything I may find inciting the public in the publication and I wanted to introduce a regular column that totally disagrees with his ideology.

I think my conditions, at a time when I hadn’t any gainful employment, shocked the prospective investor who thought any budding journalist would rush at the opportunity to become an editor-in-chief especially of a promising paper, on account of the large followership and the group’s loyalty to their Imam.

However, my relationship with the late Mohammed Yusuf continued as he visited me when I lost my eight-month-old son who died of malaria. Perhaps, he saw me partially as one of his students and partially as a dissenter due to my independent disposition. But to be fair to him, I admire his depth of knowledge, oratorical prowess and apparent will­ingness to emulate Prophet Muhammad (SAW).

In early 2002, Yusuf was seen by many as a likely heir to the renowned the late Sheikh Ja’afar Mahmud Adam in Maidu­guri on account of his brilliance and closeness to the late renowned scholar. But all that changed shortly when one late Mohammed Alli approached the late Yusuf with reasons to boycott democ­racy, civil service and western oriented schools. The late Yusuf then disengaged his service with the Yobe State Govern­ment.

Then, in a 2006 press release signed by the sect’s Shura (Consultative) Council, they stated that Islam permits them to subsist under a modern government like Nigeria but has explicitly prohibited them from joining or supporting such governments in so far as their systems, structures and institutions contain elements contradictory to core Islamic principles and beliefs.

The Alli argued that the sect must em­bark on Hijra (migration), but Yusuf de­clined and Alli proceeded to Kanamma in Yobe with his faction, and one thing led to another. The group launched an in­surgent attack on the police that resulted in the loss of many lives and property in Kanamma and later in Gwoza in Borno State. The insurgents, a renegade group that called itself ‘Taliban’, led by Alli, fiercely disagreed with the late Yusuf and many of the escapees later returned to Yusuf.

Unlike Alli, Yusuf went on undeterred, though he was prevented from preach­ing in several mosques and was denied TV/radio appearances in the state. But he set up a preaching outlet in the front of his house at the railway quarters and at Angwan Doki, Millionaires’ Quarters among others. The demand for his tapes increased by the day all over the North and the proceeds therefrom increased tremendously. He then asked his land­lord and in-law, the late Baba Fugu Mo­hammed to allow him to build a mosque, which he named Ibn Taimiyya Masjid.

It was in Ibn Taimiyya Masjid that the late Yusuf, together with his hard-line top lieutenant, Abubakar Shekau alias ‘Darul Tauhid,’ began to build an imagi­nary state within a state. Together they set up Laginas (departments). They had a cabinet, the Shura, the Hisbah, the bri­gade of guards, a military wing, a large farm, an effective micro finance scheme, and the late Yusuf played the role of a judge in settling disputes. Each state had an Amir (leader) including Amirs in Chad and Niger that gave accounts of their stewardship to Yusuf directly.

The sect led by Yusuf took advantage of the poor quality of our education­al system, the incessant strikes, cult activities, widespread malpractice and prostitution that is made worse with no offer of jobs after graduation to whee­dle many youth to abandon school and embrace Yusuf’s new and emerging state that promises to offer them a better alternative.

The late Yusuf also took advantage of the irresponsible leadership at all levels of government with unemployment, pov­erty, corruption and insecurity becoming the order of the day. And as he points out such failures, citing verses of the Qur’an and the sayings of the Prophet, the youth see him as the leader that will indeed deliver them from malevolence to the Promised Land.

In my write-up of February 28, 2009 in the Sunday Trust I wrote about the sect, where I alerted the general public about the sect’s total disregard for civil obe­dience. The report in question warned that to disregard the simmering cauldron “smells like rebellion…and it will be irre­sponsible of any authority to wait for the occurrence of violence before it acts in the face of impending threat to law and order.” In subsequent reports and during my interactions with senior security agents, I did not only predict the crisis but hinted on the strategy of the sect. But typical of investigative journalism, instead of these revelations to catch the attention of the relevant agencies, their attention was shifted on how to frame me. Apparently, the plan was never to prevent a crisis but to allow it to occur.

However, in fairness to the govern­ment of Borno State that is living witness to the unruly behaviour of the sect and its extreme dislike for government insti­tutions, the state government like other governments in northern Nigeria saw the need to halt this nuisance in their states. They were alarmed that the sect that started with a handful of people is hitting the 7-digit mark and one day (if not very soon) the likelihood that the sect may determine the politics of the land cannot be dismissed.

According to Isa Yuguda, the Gover­nor of Bauchi state in a recent interview with a weekly newspaper, “When the Boko Haram issue came, I sat down and scientifically organised a commando raid on their stronghold. We identified them over a period of time and made sure the Ulamas came and preached against them for two weeks and they in return issued fatwa against the Imams that were preaching against them. We had to attach policemen to the Imams because the Boko Haram people threatened to slaughter them. We planned for them.

“We cordoned off their area around 3a.m. in the morning and phoned my neighbours in Borno and Yobe states about the operation I was going to carry out because their leader was there at that time. After exchanging gunshots for sometime, we smoked them out of their houses. They were fully armed with grenades, machine guns and rocket launchers,” said Yuguda.

Having kept track of political activities in the state, I knew very well that (the then Borno State Governor) Ali Sher­iff, unlike Yuguda, could not afford to strike first, Borno could take anything from him but not an attack on Muslims. However, the government in Borno set up a joint security patrol nicknamed, ‘Operation Flush’ to serve as a constant check on the sect.

As the crisis started in Maiduguri, reporters did the obvious; ‘live and tell the story’ and they stayed mostly in the Government House (GH) and most of them contacted me directly or indirectly to get briefed because I chose to do the ‘unexpected’, which is to ‘risk my life to tell the story.’ Indeed, I took undue risk, which exposed me to the unimaginable that would form the subject of a book I am now writing.

On Tuesday 29th July 2009 when I made a stop at the Borno State Gov­ernment House, a staff of the GH, one Yusuf dragged me into the office of the Chief Security Officer to the Governor, insisting that the governor’s aide wanted to see my face for the first time. The aide wanted to know from me why I did not shave my beard and lower my trousers below the ankle to avoid the wrath (Alas! bullets) of the security agents.

I, then, told him that it is wrong for security agents to brand innocent people that wear beards as Boko Haram and even kill them based on that. In fact, to keep beards, to wear turbans and nisfusaak (trousers above the ankle) are part of the prophet’s Sirah, which was recommended to every Muslim over 1400 years ago, and it is seen as a deeply spiritual task by many Muslims all over the world.

He, also, asked me whether or not I was abducted by the sect members for a while and released. I put the record straight that, I only ran into a mob and thereafter I was let off the hook when they were convinced that the brown apron I was wearing that carried an inscription of Daily Trust had nothing to show that I was a government official.

Sadly for me, the CSO did not like my guts and the fact that I reported the two sides that clearly exposed the Achilles’ heel of his boss. He ordered for my arrest, calling my crime ‘counter intelli­gence.’ At the GH I was assaulted by the mobile police (at the quarter guard post). There, a Police Constable Sani Abuba­kar, held my beards and pulled me to the ground, he kicked my legs to forcefully remove my loafers.

I was made to lie down with my face down. Instantly I urinated in my pants when two mobile policemen contemplat­ed who was going to pull the trigger.

I was then driven to the police head­quarters in the state where I was kept in a cell with 58 others. After spending 30 hours in the cell and about 48 hours without food or water (because, I couldn’t break the fast I was observing upon my arrest), I was then allowed to wash up the urine that had dried up on my pants and relieved myself of the run­ning stomach that became the audible music in our cell as everyone witnessed how cell mates were being called out waiting for his turn.and executed. Everyone was  Surprisingly, none of my colleagues investigated and reported the assault against me, even when some of them searched for me in the crowded cell as I sat without shoes on the floor. Instead, speculations were rife amongst them that indeed I was a Boko Haram member, on account of the following baseless talk: That I wear beards and trousers above my ankle and yet I came from a Christian background and this, to many of them, makes me an extremist. That I was doing fairly well as a journalist in the last ten years with a mere primary school certificate and that makes me a Boko Haram too. That my fair complexioned spouse was a Shuwa Arab and given out to me in marriage by the late Yusuf and finally, they said the late Yusuf had contact­ed some members of the media on two occasions through me in the past.

Now that I no longer carry my youthful goatee and halfway trousers to avoid being branded a terrorist meets your require­ments. However, I want to state here that I am proud of my Christian background as a Muslim because it has afforded me a unique sense of tolerance and impartial view for the need for dialogue that many born Christians and Muslims lack, leading to the kind of mistrusts we see today.

My wife is a very proud Tarok, from Langtang LGA in Plateau state. I met and married her in Abuja in 2002 and never saw Yusuf in her life. Yes, I was perhaps the only journalist known to the late Yusuf on ac­count of what I mentioned earli­er on. But, when has it become illegal to know a public figure who later became a criminal?

I started a career in jour­nalism as a staff reporter with Insider Weekly Magazine, from 2001 to 2002. Thereafter, I had a stint with Crystal Magazine as a Special Projects Editor and later a founding staff with New Senti­nel and freelanced for several media. Currently, I work as a reporter with the Media Trust Limited. I do not posses any formal educational qualification beyond primary school. Howev­er, I was self educated through years of extensive reading of books.

As a primary school pupil in the early 80’s, when the late Yusuf was a little kid himself, I would choose to climb a tree and read a story book while my mates were in school. Some­how I managed to complete my primary school but my disdain to learn in the four square walls of a classroom continued during my secondary school and my father decided to discontinue funding my education.

Although there was an extraordinary effort by the correspondents chapel and the Nigeria Union of Journalists to secure my release but as my wife who is yet to recover from the trauma of that crisis argued, the NUJ should have demanded for my release and outrightly condemn my arrest but instead, they pleaded and pleaded until I was released. This is an admit­tance that indeed one of their own is guilty as alleged and as my wife always said, this allega­tion will hang over my head for the rest of my life.

Recently, when Al-jazeera showed video footage of extra-judicial killings the world became aware of some of our experiences in Maiduguri, and typical of Nigerians, we heard calls for probe. The most disturbing call for probe is the one by the very government that ordered the summary executions in the first place. Can a military or police officer go to town and kill many innocent citizens without an order from above? If this is possible, then it should not be a probe of extra-judicial killings. Instead, government should probe insubordination and total breakdown of law and order amongst security agents leading to numerous deaths. And let us not forget, what happened to the previous probes set up by the federal government? I have a disturb­ing video that confirmed what security agents told me during my arrest. ‘No prison for Boko Haram members, we want them all dead.’ Is it the gover­nor of Borno State that gave such an order or Mr. President that has absolute control over the police and military under the constitution? Oh, ours is a country where the constitution is always disregarded.

Why did they execute Yusuf together with Baba Fugu Mo­hammed and Bugi Foi before any trial? Was it to cover the dirty tracks of undercover agents that worked for years with the late Yusuf, leaving the impression that these two (that are the richest people close to the late Yusuf) funded the uprising? Why are the sophisti­cated guns of Boko Haram that were used to keep Nigeria’s defence forces away from their enclave for three days not dis­played to the public alongside their corpses? What we saw were mostly bow and arrows.

Where is Abubakar Shekau? The police said he died from injuries he sustained during the crisis. Can we believe them after all? They said Yusuf died in a shootout when in fact over 50 mobile policemen shot him behind my detention room, at the armoury right inside the police headquarters. In my opinion, Abubakar Shekau, the second in command of the late Yusuf may be alive.

Over the years, the failure of security agents to prevent crisis that often times leads to loss of lives and property worth billions of naira goes unpunished. We never hear any apology or resignation from political leaders or heads of se­curity agents. The only punish­ment is, erring commissioners of police are transferred to an obscure department of special duties at the Force Headquar­ters in Abuja, as was the case with the commissioners during Boko Haram and the recent Jos crises.

Were it not in a country like Nigeria, where government had failed to provide basic life support for its citizens, the late Yusuf may never have thrived. With a functional environment with opportuni­ties for all, equal justice for all, fairness to all and governance by leaders that are responsi­ble for their people, the rude and retrogressive teachings of the late Yusuf would have not received the attention of about a million followers all over the North. Indeed, Yusuf’s teaching was an abuse of the fact that Algebra, reproductive health and the science of astronomy all had roots in Islam, if indeed it is true that he said boko is haram.

From my interaction with him, he never said boko is haram plainly. In fact, the name Boko Haram came to being during the crisis. What he always said was, as long as anything that contradicts the teachings of Islam (in his own view) exists in the educational system then it is haram to go to that school unless such things cease to exist. As members of the sect realised, they cannot ensure such change, especially in a secular state like ours; they withdrew from schools completely. But I am aware that the late Yusuf had plans to set up a school, a hospital and a market in the future to complement the sect’s micro finance scheme and other Laginas.

Unfortunately, late Yusuf’s teachings that caused crisis and death of hundreds of our gallant security agents and made people like Yusuf to die, contradicts not only Islam  his followers but his very existence. I saw when members of the sect slaughtered a police sergeant, L. Adamu. The policeman pleaded with them that he was never against them and said he was a fellow Muslim, but they slaughtered him like a goat. Was this the reason why the police and military summarily executed the suspected sect members in the same manner the sect did to their colleagues?which he claims to be preaching to

Suffice it to say here that govern­ment should investigate why the sect took up arms against it. What were the issues that led to the armed strug­gle? And what are the chances of recurrence of violence. Government must as a matter of urgency police our porous border because Shekau may be living close by. Government through religious and traditional lead­ers must dialogue with the displaced family members of Boko Haram and ensure that their children all go back to school.

Government must begin to locate them and assure them of a fair trial at home in order not for them to easily fall as fodders to any al-Qaeda ad­vances. Religious institutions like the one headed by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abuba­kar III should be empowered to be independent and be able to effec­tively regulate and censor religious activities in the country.

•Salkida is a journalist and can be reached at salkida@gmail.com

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=64056

LOL, "ALIVE and KICKING"

Seriously?

The question that begs to be answered is where does the loyalty of this Salkida lie. You are a BH confidant and you sit in your house and spew forth rubbish. Would you do the same if your daughter was one of them? At this rate I don't even believe the chibok girls issue was real anymore. If it was true then Salkida himself is a sadist and inhumane terrorist.

'Some of them have refused to convert to Islam' Tripe uttered solely to dust off the issue and garnier sympathy since the story seems to have died down? Well, since you have refused to release them ...eat them. Hediiiiiooooooooots!!!

Even if the Chibok girls are still alive or whether it was just propaganda, what is the essence of the rescue since their lives will never be the same again?

This is dubious and unreliable information. It is common knowledge that Boko Haram would not hesitate to kill anyone of their captives who refuses to convert to Islam. This fellow is obviously an attention-seeking opportunist.

otemanuduno:
Okay. Thank God they are still alive.
In other word, see the FOOTBALL PROPHECIES FOR 2016.


[b] 1. Barcelona will win the la liga and the
Champions League back to back for the first
time.
2. Arsenal will lose Home and Away to
Barcelona in the UCL.
3. Chelsea will qualify to Q/final ahead of
PSG.
4. Man city will not qualify to quarter final
despite an easy draw against Dynamo kyev.
5. Man utd will end their unwinning streak in
their first match in January.
6. Chelsea's Hiddink will not lose a match in
January.
7. Bayern Munich will win the Bundesliga.
8. Tottenham Hotspur will win the EPL.
9. Leicester City will make the Top 4.
10. Man utd and Chelsea will not make the
top four.
11. Ighalo and Lukaku will end up the two
highest goal scorers in the EPL.
12. Lionel Messi will win the world best.
13. Juventus will claim the Seria A title again.
14. PSG will win the French League.
15. Suarez will be the Highest Goal Scorer in
La Liga.
16. Benitez will be sacked before the end of
his tenure in Real Madrid.
17. Mourinho will take charge of Man utd but
will not still make top four.
18. Real Madrid will drop out at the Quarter
Final of the UCL.[/b]

You are high on premium grade ganja

Hmmnn dem don come again with another one. Story for APC gullible supporters.

Kudos to them for not passing this to us through Liar Mohammed

Poultry of lies always cooking something fresh for its mass of impressionable minions.

Alive and kicking withe 2 or 3 kids each

They should just end this charade and give them amnesty so we all can hear good news
Today we know where they are, torrow we are negotiating, another time we will bring them back in two weeks, and now we font know where they are.
All these discordant tunes goes to show one thing. SCAM

lanrema:
TVC NEWS [ABUJA] - Journalist cum confidant of the leadership of Boko Haram, Ahmed Salkida, says he's confident that the abducted Chibok girls are still alive with some of them refusing to convert to Islam.

No fewer than 200 of the original 300 schoolgirls kidnapped from their dormitory in April 2014 are believed to still remain in the custody of the terrorists.

President Muhammadu Buhari said in his maiden Media Chat on radio and television on Wednesday that government had no intelligence on the whereabouts of the schoolgirls.

He promised to negotiate with the Boko Haram leadership if there is evidence showing where the girls are.

Online publication, The Cable, quoted Salkida yesterday as asking Buhari to use state machinery to open up access to the militants rather than say he has no clue on the kidnapped girls whose abductions sparked off the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

“Most of the Chibok girls, whether they are split into groups or not, are alive, multiple credible sources have told me. And if a deal to release them will weaken national security and endanger the entire country, then the federal government shouldn’t make a deal,” Salkida said.


See more at: http://www.tvcnews.tv/?q=article/chibok-girls-alive-and-kicking-says-boko-haram%E2%80%99s-contact#sthash.3nbb1HHW.dpuf





How true is this coming from Tinubu tv

What is the relevant of the bold phrase in this report, I guess the reporter would rather appreciate the girls not release than release and be a Muslim, just thinking aloud.

Biggest scam of the year so far.

let's hope it us true

If your daughter, sister or a female relative of you has been kidnapped for such amount of time, I'm sure all you gonna ask for is her release at all cost.

Negotiating for their return without any precondition is our best alternative. Those girls need to be reconciled with their family and because we haven't been able to do it militarily for two years, negotiation is our best alternative.

TruthHurts1:

You are high on premium grade ganja

Check prophecy No. 5 pls.

shamack:
Can Boko haram do without girls?....The girls will surely still be alive

So the ones wearing hijab and bombing mosques ,churches, and markets are other peoples children aside chibok girls? Am sure then that one APC chieftain is keeping them.

Only God knows

Don't think so! Sakilda wanna be heard. Nigeria must move on, the issue of the Chibok Girls as painful as it is, is now used as a major distraction to prosecute the war by the Nigeria Military. Am beginning to believe its a SCAM!

its too early in the year to start this chibok scam issue again na.I thought everything is gone with last year. abeg this ppl should just allow the matter to die .

cc.lalastica hope u concur