Breaking news: Boko Haram: Babakura, spokesman during Obasanjo’s visit shot dead
On September 17, 2011 · In News

BY NDAHI MARAMA

MAIDUGURI – Following Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s secret and surprised visit, Thursday , to the family members of Late Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf, a former leader of the Boko Haram, the Spokesman of the family, who received the delegation in Maiduguri, Alhaji Babakura Fugu was on Saturday afternoon shot dead by unknown gunmen.

Babakura Fugu, aged 48, who until his death, was the eldest son of Yusuf’s in-law,  Late Ba Fugu, a former Commissioner for Religious Affairs who was also executed by security forces during the Boko Haram uprising in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital

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Simmer down, folks.

OBJ has not only sold Nigeria at a very cheap price, he has also given this group a different set of laws, Let us chill and see what will happen next.

OBJ is the most foolish president Nigeria has ever produced.His visit to the terrorist has just made Boko Haram larger than life and created more complexities to it.Fooolish man

You both sound very foolish!

I'm still trying to figure out why Obj decided to pay the family a visit. Is he giving a tacit approval to the activities of Boko Haram?








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What do this BH chaps want?

The war has just started.[i][/i]

Religion of Blood shed.that las left trail of blood and sorrow across world history

Now dis is getting out of hand. am beginning to suspect that the acclaimed Boko Haram  that 'Yusuf' headed is different from those in operation now thatz why they decided to kill Babakura in order to shut Yusuf's family up.
 I weep for 9ja.

Lets cross our fingers and watch. . .
Smiling in Hausa!

perSONALLY, oBJ MADE GOOD MOVE, AGAINST ACTIVITIES OF THE GROUP, BUT YET  HE PAYS SYMAPTHY EVEN AT A GREAT RISK TO HIS LIFE YUSUF WAS KILLED UNJUDICIOUSLY EVEN, OSAMA EXECUTION WAS NEATER> THE PUZZLE IS BECOMING CLEARER AS PER THE KILLING

Boko Haram may end up replacing EFCC very soon. I think this is what Obasanjo is more concerned about.

Slowly Nigeria is becoming an 'Arab' nation. Iraq Afghanistan

This is serious. just read it on sahara reporters. so what's amiss,

The death member might have reveal some vital secrets to OBJ,which may lead o his death by his member.

Again

Good news . . .  Boko Haramists should be picked off one by one.

Nice work OBJ - Double Agent   I'm sure some vital intelligence was gathered during your trip.

Y did dey kill Just 1 even with a gun it should have b bomb and finish all d member,

Sad, whole issue gets murkier, but this can become a positive thing depending on who carried out the killing. It can cause division between the extremists if another faction did this and that can only be a good thing.

umechuma and big 1 u guys are jst stupid fools. Why wont obj visit the family?. The killing of this spokesman guy shows that boko haram activities is no more about the religion or the sect but a plan by some notherners to distablish Goodluck jonathan's govt.

Its very simple and plain only if you ve got the brain to analyze the future.

This Yusuf family has bougth into the deal presented to them by the master planner Obj and the family is about calling an all Yusuf faithful to lay down arms and embrace peace immediately the govt. Settles them because if u like it or not that Yusuf guy killing with out fair hearing is contrary to the law of the land and these useless boko haram jst cashed in on it and now the family wish ther wants the outside world to beleive ther are figthing for is about calling for a peace meeting and these politicians did not want it.or is about calling for a peace meeting and these politicians did not want it.

Dear Nigerians,

The Jihardists has declared a war. We can either understand this and start taking steps tp protect our selves and our children or "cross our fingers" and die without honour.

Anybody who thinks they can negotiate with the radical Islamists should have his head examined.

pple who dont want peace did this

and now, d boko haram can keep on claiming one of them was killed, causing more trouble.

Associated Press
Nigeria: Relative of slain sect leader killed
By NJADVARA MUSA and JON GAMBRELL , 09.17.11, 12:21 PM EDT  

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- A relative of the slain leader of a radical Muslim sect in Nigeria was shot dead Saturday, only two days after taking part in peace talks led by a former president, police said.

Babakura Fugu's killing comes as Nigeria's[b] weak [/b]central government struggles to stop attacks carried out by the feared sect. The group known locally as Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the Aug. 26 car bombing of the United Nations headquarters that killed 23 people.

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His death also raises concerns about who controls the sect, which has reported links to two other al-Qaida-affiliated terror groups in Africa, and whether its fighters want to negotiate an end to their increasingly bloody sectarian attacks.

Boko Haram later claimed responsibility for the attack in a text message to the BBC's Hausa language radio service, a trusted source of news throughout Nigeria's north. The claim could not immediately be independently verified.

A lone gunman approached Fugu near his home Saturday close to the site of Boko Haram's former main mosque in Maiduguri, a city in the far reaches of northeast Nigeria approaching the Sahara Desert.

The gunman pulled a Kalashnikov rifle from inside the folds of his traditional robes and shot Fugu to death, Borno state police commissioner Simeone Midenda said.

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No one else was wounded in the attack and the gunman apparently walked away, Midenda said. The commissioner said no arrests have been made in the attack.

Fugu is a relative of the late Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf, who died in police custody following a 2009 sect riot and security crackdown that left 700 people dead. Fugu and other family members had spoken with former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday in a fledgling peace effort to stop the sect's attacks.

Associated Press writer Bashir Adigun in Abuja, Nigeria contributed to this report.


http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/09/17/general-af-nigeria-radical-sect_8685374.html

KEY POINTS
WEAK GOVERMENT FROM A FOREIGN PRESS,
WHO CONTROLS BOKO HARAM
THAT GUY OUGHT TO BE IDENTIFIED IDEALLY
THE BATTLE LINE HAS BEEN DRAWN
IT WAS A BRAVE MOVE

None can rightly predict the twits n turns this gonna take now. A message has been sent? This is gettn messy. All man for himself n God for us all.

Depilot:

Boko Haram may end up replacing EFCC very soon. I think this is what Obasanjo is more concerned about.

. Boy, are you for real? maybe e go better like that so they can kill all our thieffy theify jankorico politicians instead of  the innocent lives abi? Lol  

nd who knows if Obj was just an agent. .

Boko haram season 3!

What is Boko Haram, have not heard of them before. Is it a State in the North or another country in Africa.

duduspace:

Sad, whole issue gets murkier, but this can become a positive thing depending on who carried out the killing. It can cause division between the extremists if another faction did this and that can only be a good thing.

When did u turn a politician? Is it cos Arsenal was pummeled today. Sorry mate.

Obviously OBJ didn't make the visit on his own decision. This was one of the "great" solutions our eggheads at the Council of State came up with when they met about the security situation in Nigeria a couple of weeks ago.

[size=14pt]I say all of them are foolish people[/size]. This is what happens when our leaders go from dumb to dumber each day.

Let anybody that has an ear hear this is the beginning of a full war. I hope GEJ begins to lay down the battle line right away, but who am I kidding. Look at the way they described the FG under his command "Babakura Fugu's killing comes as [size=14pt]Nigeria's weak central government [/size] struggles to stop attacks carried out by the feared sect."

Let nobody fool themselves, it is time for Nigeria to dissolve.

junegirl:

I'm still trying to figure out why Obj decided to pay the family a visit. Is he giving a tacit approval to the activities of Boko Haram?
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umechuma:

OBJ is the most foolish president Nigeria has ever produced.His visit to the terrorist has just made Boko Haram larger than life and created more complexities to it.Fooolish man

A lot is amiss that we dont understand, unfortunately neither does our so called "President" and advisers. To your tent all of Israel - The Lord is my Shield, My Fortress, My VERY PRESENT HELP! in these crazy times!

[size=15pt]Well, I told you all they were not to be negotiated with. this isn't a case of unjust treatment. This is accept islam or die. Money can not and will not solve this problem![/size]

it's only when a herb has grown and become an iroko tree, that's when drastic measures will be taken.
make we continue to sidon look