Boko Haram Gives Conditions For Peace
WEDNESDAY, 13 OCTOBER 2010 22:43 DAUDA MBAYA, MAIDUGURI

Members of the Boko Haram sect have given the government five conditions to be implemented if peace is to be restored to Borno State.

In a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Hausa service programme monitored in Maiduguri, a person who gave his name as Malam Ali and claimed to be a Boko Haram member and spokesman of the group in Maiduguri, said for peace to reign in Borno they had given five conditions which have to be implemented by government.

According to him, government and security agencies should as a matter of urgency stop arresting, intimidating and detaining their members, and release all their members that are currently in detention unconditionally.

He said one of the conditions is that government should allow all their fleeing members to return home unmolested, all their places of worship given back to them, and denounce all forms of in justice.

Mallam Ali said "during the last crisis our members were indiscriminately arrested, handcuffed and shot publicly even though we don't possess any arms neither were we confrontational".

Asked on whether they are ready to sit down on the negotiation table with government, he said " the government cannot agree because they think we are downtrodden hoodlums that deserve to be arrested and punished, simply because they live in air-conditioned houses, offices and cars".

He said they are going to continue with the attacks until government meets their conditions.

Meanwhile, the assistant inspector general of police (AIG), Zone 12, Mohammed Hadi Zarewa has relocated to Borno State to supervise the security arrangement put in place to curb the activities of the dreaded Boko Haram sect, which has been terrorising the residents of Maiduguri and its environs.

Briefing journalists at the police headquarters in Maiduguri, AIG Mohammed Zarewa said his purpose of coming to Maiduguri was not to take over the operations of the police command in Borno, but to supervise the security arrangements put in place to curtail the activities of the Boko Haram sect.

Alhaji Zarewa said that the IGP had directed the deployment of four units of mobile policemen to Maiduguri to complement the efforts of those on ground to maintain security in the state.

He appealed to the people of the state to cooperate with security agencies by providing useful information that might lead to the arrest of the hoodlums, stressing that members of the sect lived among the people, and it was only by volunteering information that they would be arrested.

The police boss said that since the insurgence resurfaced in July this year, five policemen and six civilians had been killed, while four Ak 47 rifles were carted away from the slain policemen, adding that an explosive device which was yet to explode was also recovered at Lamisula, while there was an explosion around the Monday market and post office area but no one was injured.

The AIG stated that in the security business, everybody was a stakeholder, saying, "gone are the days when the identities of those who gave information to the police are easily identified. In these technological era, people can hide their numbers and text the police some useful information without revealing their identities".

He said "we have made some arrests but we cannot parade them because we are still investigating those arrested to ascertain whether they are true members of the sect or not, and very soon, we will make it known to the press".

He appealed to parents to monitor their wards to know the type of people they associate with and also appealed to government at all levels to create jobs for the unemployed youths as idleness was the cause of all antisocial vices.

He also appealed t always report suspicious movement.


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Can these people listen to themselves? By the way, how can people that are against Western education, be using weapons manufactured by Western education to propagate their backward shameful belief?

One has exhausted every possible opinion on these people. The only solution is to wipe them off the surface of this earth.

Okay, now MEND has a nothern version

dappssee:

Okay, now MEND has a nothern version

Pls dont compare Boko Haram to MEND.