Senator representing Yobe East senatorial district, Bukar
Abba Ibrahim
By Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja
Senator representing Yobe East senatorial district, Bukar
Abba Ibrahim, has disclosed that contrary to beliefs that
Boko Haram started in Nigeria about six or 10 years ago,
the sect had actually been in existence in the North for
over three decades.
According to him, the sect had been in the country since
the 1970s following the killing of its spiritual leader in
Egypt in 1970 by President Gammal Abdel Naseer.
Ibrahim, who is a former Governor of Yobe State, said the
sect came as a religious ideology and not a political
movement. The senator, who serves on the platform of the
All Progressives Congress (APC) made the disclosure to
journalists in Abuja.
Furthermore, he said the sect which began as an
ideological movement against western education and
some other western ideas including democracy, first
arrived in Minna, the capital of Niger State, before
moving to Kano, Yobe and finally settled in Maiduguri,
the capital of Borno State between 2001 and 2002.
Ibrahim added that it was not yet a full blown terrorist
group at the time.
He explained further that Boko Haram militants are not
political thugs constituted by some politicians, saying
rather, Boko Haram dislikes democracy as a western
idea.
He said: “The History of Boko Haram dates back to 10, 15
and even 20 years or more ago. This thing didn’t start six
years ago as largely claimed. It started much, much
earlier than the six years. Boko Haram is a philosophy
driven by a warped religious ideology. It is strictly an
ideology on ground in some parts of the world for quite
sometimes now.
“It all started, we were told, in Egypt during the reign of
Gammal Abdel Naseer who died in 1970. Naseer
beheaded the leader of the Boko Haram Islamic sect in
Egypt in 1970, an action that made his followers to
scatter to other parts of Africa, especially the North and
West Africa including Nigeria.
“When they came to Nigeria, their spread started in
Minna, now the capital of Niger State, up to Kano and
some other areas before moving to Yobe, and Maiduguri
where they permanently settled down and later turned
out to be a full blown militant group because of the
high-handedness of the Nigeria Police against them.
“Police in that part of the country started killing some of
them even at the grave yard while carrying out burial of
some of their dead ones which consequently made them
to become fully militant by first taking arms and
ammunition against the Police and men of other security
agencies and by extension, the Nigerian state.
“Boko, meaning, western education is haram, meaning,
prohibited, forbidden or unacceptable is just an idea
that later turned to be something else. It has nothing to
do with being employed by politicians or being used as
political thugs but the issue of youth unemployment
worsened it further by the unemployed youths serving as
large army of recruitment for the insurgents”.
He recalled the level of destruction that Boko Haram
insurgents had carried out in North-east in recent times,
noting that it will take 20 years to rebuild the people
and places affected.
According to him, no fewer than 6,600 orphans were
camped in only one location in Yobe State besides over
200 primary schools burnt by the insurgents in the state
alone “So many government structures have been
destroyed. More than 200 primary schools have been
destroyed. There are 6,600 orphans in a camp alone.
“I’ve not seen my house in the village for 18 months now
which I learnt have even been bombed down by the
military during their war against the insurgents who
earlier seized the property and drove people away from
the village (Goneri). Two hundred and seventeen of them
are presently staying in my house in Damaturu among
who are 40 primary and 50 secondary school pupils that
are now schooling in Damaturu,” he said.
He expressed hopes that like other similar groups in the
past, Boko Haram will become history moreso that it is
allegedly partnering the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
(ISIS)
Source:www.thisdaylive.com/articles/how-boko-haram-entered-nigeria/216981
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see senator ooo that vows during campaigns for his constituency no matter situation "I'll stay by you"

18 mouths last you visited your peoples hahah
Polithievesian so na only you go dey chop your Constituency Allowance

Hope i can get to read, 'How Boko Haram left Nigeria' soon. Nigeria will be Great again.

If i can understand this write up, the mumu senator is justifying the action of boko haram with style. This has condirned my earlier suspicion that each and every muslim in this geographical calamity supports this islamic ideology. What a disgrace islam is to a world of peace.

nawa o

18mths he's not visited his village & d clowns were clamouring for Jonathan to go to Chibok. Whatever is their history, one thing is very clear, Boko Haram is the evidence of failure of leadership at all strata, the family, the tradition/religious institutions and the govt in the NE.

Am afraid that boko haram has come to stay in Nigeria

I thought some people said it was Jonathan that started and sponsored Boko Haram.

18 months you didn't visit your home. So where did you vote and who voted for you to become senator?