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Barrister Aisha Wakil who was declared wanted by the Nigerian
military authorities last Sunday was until recent largely unknown.
Almost always totally veiled, her identity has been as inscrutable
as the tale about her origins. Popular folklore is that the woman
activist, who was born into an Igbo Christian family converted to
Islam during her time at the University of Maiduguri where she
studied law.

Prior to the transformation of the Islamic Boko Haram sect into a fighting force in 2009, Wakil was well known to have close ties with Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of the sect, whose killing led to the radical transformation of the group. Following her education, she settled in Maiduguri and made a
home with another lawyer, Wakil Gana who is presently a judge with the Borno State High Court. The news report declaring Aisha wanted undoubtedly came to her and nearly all who knew her with surprise especially against the
fact that she had almost always carried out her conduct and
liaisons with Boko Haram with the knowledge of the authorities.
In fact, she is known to be a staff of the National Human Rights
Commission, NHRC and was during the Goodluck Jonathan
administration an important liaison that was used to make
contacts with the Boko Haram.

She has not for once denied a link with the group, having said in
separate fora that she knew some of the insurgents right from
when they were circumcised.
It was perhaps on that account that when the Jonathan
administration constituted a committee to negotiate with Boko
Haram she featured prominently on the list. Even more, when the
Boko Haram group announced a group of prominent northerners
to negotiate with the government she and her husband, Justice
Wakil were featured among those nominated by the group.
Calling the Boko Haram insurgents at one point as her children
who moved in and out, she said:
“That was how I got to know most of them. Then they were not
Boko Haram and Jama’atu ah-lil Sunnah members. It is surprising
how these children turned out to be what they are now. I keep on
saying there is certainly no smoke without fire. Something must
have triggered those innocent-looking children to grow up
behaving the way they are behaving now.

“You needed to see them growing up. Sometimes when I start
talking about them, I shed tears. Those children prayed, and still
pray a lot. I have a mosque in the house, and they would always
go in and pray.”

Wakil narrated how she started noticing changes in them. How
they would go out in the morning and return in the evening and
during the fasting period, they would not return until around 11 or
12 midnight. They also started attending Muhammad Yusuf’s
lectures to listen to his preaching.

“I didn’t observe anything strange about the teaching. Soon, the
children began to be conscious of themselves. It was then that
the rumour started that they were planning a war. When I heard of
it, I went straight to Muhammad Yusuf because I had been very
close to him. When I realized that Muhammad Yusuf was
frequently being arrested, detained and released, I went to Baba
Fugu and asked him why his son-in-law was always being
detained? But I learnt he was always preaching things the
government didn’t like and insulting them.”

At the peak of the crisis when few dared to come out, Aisha was
able to mobilise some Borno women to come out to protest
against the situation. At that time she was quoted to have
referred to the Boko Haram insurgents as her children.
“My sons, I have been begging you since in silence to come out
and state your grievances and stop destroying your homeland.
Please come out and state your grievances and stop these
killings,” she was quoted to have tearfully said. Just as she is
almost never seen without being fully veiled from the crown of
her head to the sole of her feet, Aisha’s origin has been almost
always veiled from Nigerians.

The nearest revelation about her linkage to being Igbo was when
she was quoted to have disclosed in an interview with a national
newspaper her peace-making efforts.
According to her, she “started the dialogue process since 2009,
even before the major crisis erupted because I knew their slain
spiritual leader, Muhammad Yusuf. His father-in-law, late Alhaji
Baba Fugu Mohammed, was my spiritual father in Islam, and I
used to visit his home.

“In fact, Mohammed Yusuf almost married my younger sister
Amina, but Almighty Allah did not make it possible. So that was
how I got closer to the duo. It went even to the extent that I was
cooking food and taking it to the house of late Alhaji Fugu, to the
pupils of the Qur’anic school, (almajari).

“And because I am from the southern part of the country, I
normally prepared southern dishes, which Yusuf had always come
to eat. In fact, he liked my egusi soup very much, and we became
very close when his father-in-law told him that I was the one
who cooked the food. So anytime we met, he expressed delight
and prayed that Almighty Allah would reward me, for he was
eating from my pot and that was how I established a strong
relationship with him,” she was quoted as saying.




http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/the-woman-aisha-wakil-boko-haram-calls-mummy-is-igbo/

ok

so igbos also answers Aisha Wakil...ehh, I've never heard of this name,
how did they arrive to the conclusion that she is Igbo?

well, nigeria is a zoo with many animals in it like..( buhari 'dog',, lai Mohammed 'dog',, obasanjo 'baboon'......the list is endless

I remember the woman who covered herself with hijab totally seeing only her eye glasses.

So she is Igbo?

inukwa!!

that is her business!!! why make a mountain out of a mole hill? why make an unnecessary news out it?? so what, if she is an Igbo? she joined the usman Dan fodios and turned her back on her people!!, so she can perish with them, if she likes!!! what has she added to the Igbo tribe? mtcheewww!!!!

Op, be serious for once nah.

I knew she must have an Igbo blood by how light and smooth her hands are...Igbo women have very smooth hands I guess its from using umanaku oil.

Uduak2019:
I knew she must have an Igbo blood by how light and smooth her hands were...Igbo women have very smooth hands.

have you touched her hands before??

Biafra1000:
Barrister Aisha Wakil who was declared wanted by the Nigerian
military authorities last Sunday was until recent largely unknown.
Almost always totally veiled, her identity has been as inscrutable
as the tale about her origins. Popular folklore is that the woman
activist, who was born into an Igbo Christian family converted to
Islam during her time at the University of Maiduguri where she
studied law.

Prior to the transformation of the Islamic Boko Haram sect into a fighting force in 2009, Wakil was well known to have close ties with Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of the sect, whose killing led to the radical transformation of the group. Following her education, she settled in Maiduguri and made a
home with another lawyer, Wakil Gana who is presently a judge with the Borno State High Court. The news report declaring Aisha wanted undoubtedly came to her and nearly all who knew her with surprise especially against the
fact that she had almost always carried out her conduct and
liaisons with Boko Haram with the knowledge of the authorities.
In fact, she is known to be a staff of the National Human Rights
Commission, NHRC and was during the Goodluck Jonathan
administration an important liaison that was used to make
contacts with the Boko Haram.

She has not for once denied a link with the group, having said in
separate fora that she knew some of the insurgents right from
when they were circumcised.
It was perhaps on that account that when the Jonathan
administration constituted a committee to negotiate with Boko
Haram she featured prominently on the list. Even more, when the
Boko Haram group announced a group of prominent northerners
to negotiate with the government she and her husband, Justice
Wakil were featured among those nominated by the group.
Calling the Boko Haram insurgents at one point as her children
who moved in and out, she said:
“That was how I got to know most of them. Then they were not
Boko Haram and Jama’atu ah-lil Sunnah members. It is surprising
how these children turned out to be what they are now. I keep on
saying there is certainly no smoke without fire. Something must
have triggered those innocent-looking children to grow up
behaving the way they are behaving now.

“You needed to see them growing up. Sometimes when I start
talking about them, I shed tears. Those children prayed, and still
pray a lot. I have a mosque in the house, and they would always
go in and pray.”

Wakil narrated how she started noticing changes in them. How
they would go out in the morning and return in the evening and
during the fasting period, they would not return until around 11 or
12 midnight. They also started attending Muhammad Yusuf’s
lectures to listen to his preaching.

“I didn’t observe anything strange about the teaching. Soon, the
children began to be conscious of themselves. It was then that
the rumour started that they were planning a war. When I heard of
it, I went straight to Muhammad Yusuf because I had been very
close to him. When I realized that Muhammad Yusuf was
frequently being arrested, detained and released, I went to Baba
Fugu and asked him why his son-in-law was always being
detained? But I learnt he was always preaching things the
government didn’t like and insulting them.”

At the peak of the crisis when few dared to come out, Aisha was
able to mobilise some Borno women to come out to protest
against the situation. At that time she was quoted to have
referred to the Boko Haram insurgents as her children.
“My sons, I have been begging you since in silence to come out
and state your grievances and stop destroying your homeland.
Please come out and state your grievances and stop these
killings,” she was quoted to have tearfully said. Just as she is
almost never seen without being fully veiled from the crown of
her head to the sole of her feet, Aisha’s origin has been almost
always veiled from Nigerians.

The nearest revelation about her linkage to being Igbo was when
she was quoted to have disclosed in an interview with a national
newspaper her peace-making efforts.
According to her, she “started the dialogue process since 2009,
even before the major crisis erupted because I knew their slain
spiritual leader, Muhammad Yusuf. His father-in-law, late Alhaji
Baba Fugu Mohammed, was my spiritual father in Islam, and I
used to visit his home.

“In fact, Mohammed Yusuf almost married my younger sister
Amina, but Almighty Allah did not make it possible. So that was
how I got closer to the duo. It went even to the extent that I was
cooking food and taking it to the house of late Alhaji Fugu, to the
pupils of the Qur’anic school, (almajari).

“And because I am from the southern part of the country, I
normally prepared southern dishes, which Yusuf had always come
to eat. In fact, he liked my egusi soup very much, and we became
very close when his father-in-law told him that I was the one
who cooked the food. So anytime we met, he expressed delight
and prayed that Almighty Allah would reward me, for he was
eating from my pot and that was how I established a strong
relationship with him,” she was quoted as saying.




http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/the-woman-aisha-wakil-boko-haram-calls-mummy-is-igbo/

Dis sound lunatic,, first she was called among the ppl to negotiate with boko haram, and I ask,, was Buhari not named among the negotiators ? She's from southern Nigeria, and I ask, how does that justifies her being Igbo? Junk media #brownenvelopeseverywhere.

hausa no dey shame
Is there anything Igbo about the name aisha or wakil

Mckennedy:
Dis sound lunatic,, first she was called among the ppl to negotiate with boko haram, and I ask,, was Buhari not named among the negotiators ? She's from southern Nigeria, and I ask, how does that justifies her being Igbo? Junk media #brownenvelopeseverywhere.

J.U.N.K. I tell you, brown envelop nonsense media house...lies everywhere

the host of imbeciles above on this thread is alarming.

Reading through comments on nairaland at times is like reading through elementary essay writing. It is comical and pathetic at the same time.
Comprehension is misconstrue and expression is misplaced...

BTT: All I deduce from the expository is that Aisha (conversation name) is an Igbo (Amaka by name maybe) Muslim convert who got married to one Alhaji Wakil and got involved in humanitarian aid.

No surprise.


Most aggressive Islamists are converts.

Whether she is a collaborator, sympathizer or Stateswoman who happened to be good to all before the formation of the outlawed group is a topic for another discussion.

I'm not surprised. Some of this light skinned muslim women you see covered in hijab you mistake as Fulani are Igbo women. They are all over Abuja married to rich Alhajis.

She is Igbo yes and she was married to a Northerner and converted to Islam.. So what's the buzz about?

She is leaving 'HER' life and does not owe any damn person any explanation...

She is a great woman with great personality, that's why she has assumed such a powerful role to make peace...

Thanks to all these bigots, we have taken account of our daughter and now knows that the murderous NA is again after her life because they recently noticed she was Igbo and have decided to kill her to cover for their ineptitude despite all her efforts to broker peace between the warring factions..


If anything happens to her NA must have to answer for it.. .MURDERERS!!!

Gozzzy:
that is her business!!! why make a mountain out of a mole hill? why make an unnecessary news out it?? so what, if she is an Igbo? she joined the usman Dan fodios and turned her back on her people!!, so she can perish with them, if she likes!!! what has she added to the Igbo tribe? mtcheewww!!!!

Indeed!
The report didn't state where she said she's Igbo. She only spoke about coming from southern part of the country, which could Yoruba, Edo, Delta or anywhere else.
Her origin is inconsequential. The point here is her religion (Islam) which promotes violence and thrives on bloodbath.

Stories of people converting to Islam to join terror groups further lay credence to the fact that Islamic ideology is violent.

Uduak2019:
I knew she must have an Igbo blood by how light and smooth her hands are...Igbo women have very smooth hands I guess its from using umanaku oil.

see myopic reasoning. Someone who covers her whole body without the rays of the sun touching her, do you expect such person to be dark with coarse skin?

And, let no moslem tell me that Boko haram, ISIS and other terror groups that Islam has littered the world with are not Muslims. That's a stale, redundant cliché.
Mohammed yusuf was a moslem.

She was born igbo...but she isn't igbo anymore, nothing about her now tells she's an igbo woman.