BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, WITH
AGENCY REPORT
•Why we didn’t kill Obasanjo
•Northern governors pay us
monthly not to attack their
states
CONTRARY to impressions
that its activities were
targeted at President
Goodluck Jonathan’s
Administration, dreaded
Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has
claimed that it had nothing
against the President.
According to information
obtained by an online
publication,
247ureports.com, through a
high ranking contact in the
terrorist organization, the
group said it would have
killed former President
Olusegun Obasanjo last
September when he visited
the in-law of the slain leader
of Boko Haram, Babakura
Fuggu, in Borno State but the
leaders changed their mind
because “Obasanjo was
good to us.”
The information also
revealed unnerving
revelations regarding the
recent attacks on Kano and
Bauchi State and why they
killed Fuggu.
It was gathered that the
leader of Boko Haram, Imam
Abubakar Shekau, who is
currently hiding away in
Qoundere, Cameroun
following the recent and
ongoing attacks on Kano and
Bauchi State – had
deliberated seriously on the
assassination of Obasanjo on
September 15, 2011 while
on a visit to Borno State to
the home of the in-law to the
slain leader of Boko Haram,
Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf.
The Boko Haram source said
that Obasanjo had made first
contact with Yusuf’s in-law,
Babakura Fuggu (eldest son
of Yusuf’s in-law) in early
September 2011 concerning
opening a channel of
dialogue with the terrorist
group. The leadership of the
group took it uneasy with
the choice of Babakura –
since the line of leadership
did not automatically follow
family lineage as in
traditional settings.
Rightful successor
As a ‘religious’ group they
did not see Babakura as the
rightful person to take over
from Yusuf., a reason, the
leadership of the group
‘silently’ objected to the
meeting between Babakura
and Obasanjo.
As Obasanjo concluded his
secret meeting the previous
day at the Green House with
three other religious group
(Jamatu Nasir Islam, JNI and
CAN) in Jos, the capital of
Plateau State on Wednesday,
September 14, 2011, and
took off the following day to
Borno State, Boko Haram,
according to the source,
marked the former President
within their ‘firing range’
from the moment he landed
in Borno State at minutes
after 11am till he departed
the State in the late
afternoon of the same day.
Ijaw people ‘re deceiving
Jonathan
“He was going to be a big
catch” said the source, who
explained that the leadership
halted the operation as
Obasanjo went inside the
residence of Babakura.
“Obasanjo was good to us.
We had no problem with
Obasanjo. We had him. We
could have taken him out,”
as he recalled that the Sharia
movement took off during
the period when Obasanjo
was president. “The problem
started during the late
President Yar’Adua regime.
Goodluck only inherited the
problem. We have no
problem with Goodluck. But
his Ijaw people around him
are deceiving him.”
President Jonathan and
former President Obasanjo
Why we killed Fuggu
Interestingly, the Boko
Haram source, who spoke in
fluent English with a slight
American accent explained
the decision to ‘finish’
Babakura Fuggu came due to
what transpired between
Obasanjo and Babakura. “We
learnt he asked for money”.
Babakura requested on
behalf of Boko Haram
monies to enable the group
defray litigation costs and
other minor financial
requests which the
leadership of Boko Haram
considered menial and
demeaning.
The wife, Yakolo, was said to
have received money from
the former president to the
tune of N500,000. Babakura
Fuggu was gunned down on
September 17, 2012 as he
exited his home with his
younger brother in the
company of other young
men dressed in reddish-
orange babarigas each
armed with AK47s – just
barely 48 hours following
the visit of former President
Obasanjo.
Our pact with northern
governors
The reason for Kano and
Bauchi states attacks a few
days ago were hinged on
failed promises by the State
governors of the two states.
The entire northern
governors, according to the
Boko Haram source, have
ongoing relationships with
the group. “Most of them pay
us monthly to leave their
states alone.”
In Kano State, a former state
governor, reached an
agreement with the terrorist
group in late 2004 for an
initial monthly disbursement
of N5million, which was later
bumped up to N10million in
2009. The agreement,
according to the source,
included provision of
institutional infrastructural
support through the Hisbah
(Islam police) project which
received yearly budgetary
allocation of N1.01billion. The
gubernatorial election of
April 2011 which introduced
Rabiu Kwankwaso as the
new governor changed the
agreement.
The Kwankwaso
administration was quick to
dismantle the Hisbah set up –
and the said agreement to
disburse N10million monthly.
The governor proceeded to
make arrests of known Boko
Haram members. Boko
Haram leadership who had
found comfort in Kano did
not appreciate the
Kwankwaso administration’s
policy on Boko Haram.
According to the source, “we
warned the Governor of the
consequences.
“We concluded on Kano in
December 2011.” The abrupt
end to the oil subsidy strike
and protests served an
opportunity for the group to
strike. The preparatory work
for the attack and the
selection of targets had
already been completed.
According to the source, an
estimated number of
casualties was calculated to
net 300 minimum. “The go
ahead order” was given on
Wednesday (January 18,
2012) evening before the
leader of the group left the
country for Cameroon on the
early morning of Thursday,
the following day.
In Bauchi State, a similar
agreement was allegedly
reached with the leadership
of the group. A monthly
disbursement of N10million
was agreed upon along with
provision of training
grounds on the many
mountains scattered in
Bauchi State. There was also
alleged promise of security
against arrests by the Federal
Government. The agreement
was reached in June 2008
but mid 2011, the governor
stopped the disbursement of
the N10 million regularly.
Boko Haram were not happy
but remained loyal to the
agreement because of the
unfettered access to the
mountains of Bauchi as
training camps.
However, the arrest and
detention of their number
three man by the State
Security Services (SSS)
fractured the relationship
between the governor and
the terrorist group. The
source said the State was
attacked to free the number
three leader of Boko Haram
and to “teach them a lesson.”
The detained leader schooled
at the prestigious Lincoln
University located in the State
of Connecticut, USA and
owns a block industry in
Bauchi State near the home
of the former governor of
Bauchi State – an area
densely populated by Boko
Haram operatives.
According to the source, “the
northern governors are
overwhelmed.” They are
aware of capabilities of the
Boko Haram operatives in
their respective states. Some
of the State government
officials visit the terrorist
groups in their training
camps to watch the training
exercises. “We train harder
than the Nigerian military
and they see it” said the
source while ‘lamenting’ that
the governor continues to
tell the President that the
menace of Boko Haram is
under control.
The Boko Haram source
made it emphatic that “we
(they) have the weapons and
are in control. We are not
asking for Islamic Nigeria.
We want our men free”.

Thanks for the entertainment.
You may now go back to more bombings.
We wanno see more action. . . not tok-tok!