Amid the dust raised by his allegation linking a former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and an erstwhile Chief of the Army Staff, Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika, with the sponsorship of Boko Haram, an Australian negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davis, at the weekend, gave insight into how Abubakar Shekau hijacked the Islamist group.
“The Boko Haram we see today is not the Jama’atu Ahlul Sunnah Lih Da’awa wal Jihad (JAS) that was operational under Yusuf – former  JAS leader killed by the police in 2009”, Davis told Sunday Vanguard in an interview.
In the interview conducted online, the negotiator said: “Shekau formed Ansaru which he used for kidnapping and beheading victims.  This behaviour was a major departure from the original mandate of the JAS which was to purify Islam and return it to the exemplary life of the Prophet. Many among the JAS leadership are no longer active and others have been killed. This has allowed Shekau to take the JAS to a more extreme action and expand the frontiers of kidnapping, bombing and slaughtering. The Boko Haram we have today is a much expanded Ansaru. What we see now is not the Yusufiya which wanted very much to settle a score with former Governor Ali Modu Sheriff. It is Boko Haram as a partner to ISIS and Al Shabaab”.
Davis admitted that he came to Nigeria in April to facilitate the release of the Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram, but denied that he was engaged by any party and therefore had no obligation to report to anyone.
He claimed to have interacted with former commanders of JAS and others close to Boko Haram during his visit to Nigeria.
Davis didn’t speak with real Boko Haram leaders – Nigerian negotiator
Meanwhile, a Nigerian negotiator claimed, yesterday, that Sheriff and Ihejirika could not have been Boko Haram sponsors as  the two men were actually sworn enemies of the Islamist group.
The negotiator, who didn’t want to be named for security reasons, told Sunday Vanguard that neither Sherrif nor Ihejirika was a sponsor of the sect.

Shekau in the video released to AFP. Photo: AFP.
The source, who has been assisting the government to find a lasting solution to the insurgency in the North-east, pointed out that Sheriff was even one of the three most wanted enemies of the sect. He did not say who the other two were.
“The statement credited to advise that Sherriff and Ihejirika are sponsors of Boko Haram is far from the truth because, as at  today, the former Borno governor remains one of the three worst enemies of Boko Haram”, he stated.
“I can tell you that the group has not forgiven Sheriff over the killing of its leader, Mohammed Yusuf, who was arrested and killed during his tenure as governor”.
Confirming the claim by Davis  that he was not hired by the Nigerian government to broker peace with the sect, the source said that the Australian came on his own to secure the release of the Chibok girls.
He said that while in Nigeria, Davis never met the real commanders of Boko Haram but depended on information from a member of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Amnesty for information on the activities of the sect.
The source blamed what is now playing out  on the issue of Boko Haram sponsorship on the information given to Davis by the member of the presidential committee.
He said,”We can say with all amount of seriousness that Davis did not meet the leadership and main commanders of Boko Haram during his visit to the North-east.
“If Davis insists that he met with any senior commander or leader of the sect, we challenge him to mention their names and ranks”.
Excerpts of Davis interview.
 
Courtesy Vanguard news.

Dumb Nigerians APC suckers hope you retards have heard-APC courtesy el-rufai the short devil peddling false-hood since inception.

[quote
author=Afroconnect]Amid the dust raised by his allegation linking a
former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and an
erstwhile Chief of the Army Staff, Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika, with
the sponsorship of Boko Haram, an Australian negotiator, Dr. Stephen
Davis, at the weekend, gave insight into how Abubakar Shekau hijacked
the Islamist group.
“The Boko Haram we see today is not the Jama’atu Ahlul Sunnah Lih Da’awa
wal Jihad (JAS) that was operational under Yusuf – former  JAS
leader killed by the police in 2009”, Davis told Sunday Vanguard in an
interview.
In the interview conducted online, the negotiator said: “Shekau formed
Ansaru which he used for kidnapping and beheading victims.  This
behaviour was a major departure from the original mandate of the JAS
which was to purify Islam and return it to the exemplary life of the
Prophet. Many among the JAS leadership are no longer active and others
have been killed. This has allowed Shekau to take the JAS to a more
extreme action and expand the frontiers of kidnapping, bombing and
slaughtering. The Boko Haram we have today is a much expanded Ansaru.
What we see now is not the Yusufiya which wanted very much to settle a
score with former Governor Ali Modu Sheriff. It is Boko Haram as a
partner to ISIS and Al Shabaab”.
Davis admitted that he came to Nigeria in April to facilitate the
release of the Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram, but denied that he
was engaged by any party and therefore had no obligation to report to
anyone.
He claimed to have interacted with former commanders of JAS and others
close to Boko Haram during his visit to Nigeria.
Davis didn’t speak with real Boko Haram leaders – Nigerian negotiator
Meanwhile, a Nigerian negotiator claimed, yesterday, that Sheriff and
Ihejirika could not have been Boko Haram sponsors as  the two men
were actually sworn enemies of the Islamist group.
The negotiator, who didn’t want to be named for security reasons, told
Sunday Vanguard that neither Sherrif nor Ihejirika was a sponsor of the
sect.

Shekau in the video released to AFP. Photo: AFP.
The source, who has been assisting the government to find a lasting
solution to the insurgency in the North-east, pointed out that Sheriff
was even one of the three most wanted enemies of the sect. He did not
say who the other two were.
“The statement credited to advise that Sherriff and Ihejirika are
sponsors of Boko Haram is far from the truth because, as at  today,
the former Borno governor remains one of the three worst enemies of
Boko Haram”, he stated.
“I can tell you that the group has not forgiven Sheriff over the killing
of its leader, Mohammed Yusuf, who was arrested and killed during his
tenure as governor”.
Confirming the claim by Davis  that he was not hired by the
Nigerian government to broker peace with the sect, the source said that
the Australian came on his own to secure the release of the Chibok
girls.
He said that while in Nigeria, Davis never met the real commanders of
Boko Haram but depended on information from a member of the Presidential
Committee on Dialogue and Amnesty for information on the activities of
the sect.
The source blamed what is now playing out  on the issue of Boko
Haram sponsorship on the information given to Davis by the member of the
presidential committee.
He said,”We can say with all amount of seriousness that Davis did not
meet the leadership and main commanders of Boko Haram during his visit
to the North-east.
“If Davis insists that he met with any senior commander or leader of the
sect, we challenge him to mention their names and ranks”.
Excerpts of Davis interview.
 
Courtesy Vanguard news.

Dumb Nigerians APC suckers hope you retards have heard-APC courtesy
el-rufai the short devil peddling false-hood since inception.[/quote]






well, all i can say is.............!























GEJ till thy Kingdom come!

ok

You were not appointed by anyone, so you love Nigeria so much, you flew into naija and located boko haram in sambisa forest and spoke with boko boys? I smell PDP lies.

PDP deceiving Nigerians since 1999.

iluvnaija: You were not appointed by anyone, so you love Nigeria so much, you flew into naija and located boko haram in sambisa forest and spoke with boko boys? I smell PDP lies.

PDP deceiving Nigerians since 1999.

Ur mind is very narrow,and ur thinking naive-this whole thing about Davies is a hoax.

If this Australian man was truly not appointed by our government and he had the nerve to enter Nigeria and approach a brutal terror organization as Boko Haram, the only other group that would have given him such boldness to do this without fear of being kidnapped is the CIA.

I suspect this man's controversial naming of men like Ihejirika who is on record as the only COAS that dealt the most powerful devastating blow to BH which drove them into sambisa forest, as part of CIA plot to help their prediction of Nigeria's disintegration in 2015 to become a reality.

I don't expect less from Aso dogs.