Earlyface

The Boko Haram sect has cited the stoppage of its
monthly financial support for the recent attacks on
northern states, claiming that the group was until
recently being bankrolled by some northern
governors
The Boko Haram sect has cited the stoppage of it’s
monthly financial support for the recent attacks on
northern states, claiming that the group was until
recently being bankrolled by some northern
governors.
The claim by the group came as it also alleged that
former President Olusegun Obasanjo was in it’s
firing range last September but was spared
because of his tolerance of the sharia Islamic code
during his presidency.
An unnamed high ranking official of the group
alleged that the Ibrahim Shekarau administration
in Kano made a monthly N10 million donation to
the group while the Bauchi Governor, Alhaji Isa
Yuguda besides financial commitments was also an
admirer of the military prowess of the group.
The group has, nevertheless, dismissed any
personal grouse with President Goodluck Jonathan,
alleging that the problems with the administration
were carryovers from what it claimed to be the
callousness of the Yar‘Adua administration in
waging war against the group.
The allegations were made by a high ranking
official of the group to the online publication
known as 247ureports.com. Mr. Michael Ishola,
Chief Press Secretary to the Bauchi State Governor,
Alhaji Isa Yuguda, however, debunked the claim as
a “very, very strange allegation.”
The newly appointed Special Adviser (Media) to the
Kano State Governor, Mallam Halilu Dantiye on his
part, claimed ignorance of any monthly payment to
the group by the Ibrahim Shekarau administration
which the present administration succeeded as he
claimed that there was no such issue contained in
the handover note.
Noting that the attacks on Kano and Bauchi arose
from the stoppage of the financial support to the
group by some northern governors, the official in
the disclosures to the publication said that the
entire northern governors have ongoing
relationships with the group. “Most of them pay us
monthly to leave their states alone”.
It was alleged that the Shekarau administration
reached an agreement as far back as 2004 to be
paying a monthly support of N5 million to the
group which was later raised to N10 million
sometime in 2009.
The agreement also reportedly included
infrastructural support. The support was, however,
allegedly stopped at the inception of the
Kwankwaso administration in May 2011. The
publication alleged that the Kwankwaso regime
also turned against the group dismantling its
infrastructure in the state.
“We warned the Governor of the consequences. We
concluded on Kano in December 2011,” the source
said. Shekarau’s spokesman, Sule Yau did not
respond to the allegations yesterday as he did not
respond to a text message sent to him. Mallam
Dantiye Special Adviser to Governor Kwankwaso
claimed ignorance of the alleged support saying
that nothing like that was contained in the
handover note received from Shekarau.
On Bauchi, the publication reported that Governor
Yuguda reached a similar agreement with the
leadership of the group for the payment of
N10million monthly to the group alongside the
provision of training grounds on the many
mountains scattered in Bauchi State.
The governor it was reported also promised to give
them security against arrests by the federal
government. The agreement was supposedly
reached in June 2008 but mid 2011, the governor
reportedly stopped the disbursement of the funds.
Mr. Michael Ishola, Chief Press Secretary to
Governor Yuguda also refuted the allegation
against Governor Yuguda. “It is a very, very strange
allegation, because the Isa Yuguda I know cannot
be involved in such an allegation. We in Bauchi
have been living in peace. We are not involved in
that,” he told Vanguard yesterday.

This is sad

Very Tragic