The recent Boko Haram onslaught on schools in Borno State is a reprisal against the continued attacks on Tsangaya (Islamiyya) schools and the arrest of clerics by security agents, the group’s spokesperson, Abul-Qaqa, has said.

Qaqa, in an E-mailed response to questions from newsmen in Maiduguri, said, “We warned that security agents must stop attacking and arresting clerics in Tsangaya (Islamiyya) schools but nobody took our warning seriously.

“They continued arresting Islamic teachers and that is why we resolve to continue attacking public schools. Certainly, if Qur’anic education will not be allowed to continue, then secular and western education will not continue also,” he said, noting that Islamic scholars were arrested at Bulabulin and Jajeri in Maiduguri metropolis.

And when told that thousands of children were now missing classes because of the assault, Qaqa said, “We are not worried because what goes around comes around. Governments at all levels were not concerned with the fact that thousands of Muslim children have been forced to stop learning Qur’anic education in Tsangaya schools.

On the attacks on places of worship especially churches, he said that the recent arrest of Christians while attempting to bomb a church in Bauchi State was a clear indication of the plot by security operatives to instigate violence.  He alleged that the church would-be-bombers were planted by security operatives in order to create false alarm.

“There is grand conspiracy in respect of the Christians that have been arrested while trying to detonate bombs in some churches. This is a script crafted by the state security service (SSS) in other to confuse people and convince other Muslims not to believe in what we are doing.

“Agents of the SSS have been doing this for a very long time. They want the world to believe that we are attacking everybody but they would not succeed, by the grace of Allah,” he said.

“We are attacking churches on retaliatory mission because Christians have burnt countless mosques in this country,” Qaqa said.

Qaqa also debunked claims that his group was not waging a Jihad, but working for some individuals that wanted to dismember Nigeria.

Asked when the group will seize fire, Qaqa said, “We have warned severally that we would continue launching attacks until our members are released. Unfortunately however, the trend of the arrest has been extended to our wives and children. We would soon start kidnapping the wives and children of all the people that have hands in the arrest of our wives and children.”


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