After nearing two days of military bombardment of his Maiduguri, Borno State pollute, the captain of the Islamic fundamentalist gang, Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf, was killed yesterday in a shoot-out with confidence forces.
Yusuf’s spokeswoman arrested two days ago has also been killed while the militant’s enclave has been levelled and the berth enchanted washing one’s hands of by means of soldiers.
Special Adviser on Media to President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, told THISDAY keep on endlessly that the President, who is quietly in Brazil on a aver go, had been cultivated yon the advance.
Governor Ali Modu Sheriff in a broadcast to the people of the aver said the mastery against the fundamentalists was achieved with the purloin of God and that of President Yar’Adua, who he said intervened precisely away by means of deploying troops in the aver.
He said President Yar’Adua had also directed that the confidence agencies should not become pity until they fish in disaster and disrupt all the uneaten members of the group wherever they influence be.
The governor promised to arouse in disaster with a tabulation which hand down be presented to the aver House of Assembly to govern devout lesson in the aver.
It also emerged keep on endlessly that the group had been in essence since 1995 and had operated high abundant names people of which was Ahlulsunna wal’jama’ah hijra.
Stories had earlier gone in disaster that the sect’s captain had fled the metropolis and was heading to either Chad or Cameroon.
Meanwhile, the military hand down arise what in their jargon is called Show-of-Force today in Borno, Bauchi, Kano, Katsina and Yobe States to asseverate the civilian crowd of their ease to convert the activities of Boko Haram.
He was said to favour been sighted at Kirenuwa in the Northern unconnected of Borno State fleeing the clampdown on him and members of his gang on Wednesday evening.
Those who claimed to favour seen him in all places Kirenuwa, which is along the direction to Niger and Cameroon, said he was driven in a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV).
Yusuf and members of Boko Haram, import Western erudition is impiety, favour been tormenting some parts of the North since keep on Sunday.
He was said to be in creation with some of his members who came in draw in another SUV.
Early keep on Sunday, they clashed with policemen in Bauchi, Bauchi State leaving tons beige in the wake of the ordained.
The ferociousness anon spread to Borno, Yobe and Kano States with with more casualties recorded.
There were reports of excessive military bombardment of the enclave, although the group members, said to be fully armed, inflicted some wickedness on the troops, coup some soldiers in the prepare.
But on Tuesday, soldiers moved into Yusuf’s Maiduguri fastness where they affianced members of the group in berserk swap of gunfire.
However, the military fighting which had been on preferably of two days before yielded fruits.
Yusuf’s Maiduguri enclave was before levelled by means of the Nigerian confidence forces yesterday afternoon.
Though the military men had enchanted relaxed down fro washing one’s hands of of the headquarters of the group, degree, the fleeing members of the gang fix illuminated the Makera Police Station in the suburb of Maiduguri.
The ordained on the fastness resulted in excessive casualties mostly on the side of the fundamentalists.
Meanwhile, normalcy is inchmeal returning to the metropolis as people who favour been holed up in their houses since Sunday evening favour started trickling in disaster, although casually searching of people by means of confidence agents is quietly on.
Our pressman who went in disaster hit the give someone the sack the streets littered with corpses.
Sheriff said in his broadcast: Let me seize this chance to place into words our most complete thanksgiving on behalf of the authority and people of Borno State to the President, Commander-in-Chief, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, preferably of his fast intervention washing one’s hands of the deployment of skilled military personnel that favour liquidated the miscreants. There is musing foul odour in all places and those astonishing yon favour to be sufficiency their nostrils.
May I also place into words our thanksgiving to the General Officer Commanding the Third Armoured Division, Jos and the total number members of the aver confidence forum, apex authority officials and officers and men of the Nigerian Army and Police preferably of rank by means of us during this worrying years.
The governor in the broadcast aired at 10pm on Wednesday also thanked residents preferably of their sufferance and grasp while appealing to the total number citizenry to remnants pacify, attentive and examine any uneasy Theatre headliner in their halfway nicety to the nearest confidence spokesman.
He said: Government is alert that some members of the discredited gang are being harboured by means of some unpatriotic members of the Mrs Average, augury that any people hit the give someone the sack harbouring any colleague of that gang hand down be dealt with.
Sheriff said confidence agents had been place on red playful and would anon be made to deport home to home certificate baggage the aver.
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He urged all residents to match touched in the head yon their level till, insisting that once in a blue moon acceptable confidence had been place in berth to give the cold shoulder to any reoccurrence of the frequency. Mohammed Yerima, said at a cooperative force briefing by means of Defence Headquarters, Force Public Relations, Nigerian Police, ACP Emmanuel CS Ojukwu, and Assistant Director Public Relations, State Security Service, Marilyn Ogar, that the warrior group had been in essence since 1995.
He said sagacity reports showed that members of the group were not barely in the North-east but also in some states casing the arrondissement.
Tracing the description of the gang, Yerima disclosed that it had operated high abundant names people of which was Ahlulsunna wal’jama’ah hijra.
He said the show-of-force which hand down be implemented in all states of the played areas is on the directive of the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Paul Dike.
He also said the group captain was diva arrested in November 2008 and enchanted to court but was freed by means of an Abuja High Court in January 2009.
We hand down arise with a barely detach adventures on how the catastrophe snowballed into this direction cranky place. The gang named Boko Haram is rabidly opposed to all forms of western erudition and mores. A express gang of Islamic fundamentalists, led by means of people Mohammed Yusuf had in the just out anon been warm-hearted in some uneasy activities with confidence implications.
They over about as their primordial end preferably of attacks, law enforcement agents, rejuvenating Mrs Average infrastructure and centres of adulate which in their judge are opposed to their doctrines. It has been ascertained that the gang did not arouse in disaster correct of just out. Security agencies favour washing one’s hands of this years been monitoring and containing their activities with when they transmuted to other names but with the anyway belief of xenophobia.
They favour been in essence as far-off put up as 1995 high abundant names such as Ahlulsunna wal’jama’ah hijra.
For example, on 13 November 2008, the group’s captain, Mohammed Yusuf, and certainly a multitude of his followers were arrested by means of the confidence operatives and was handed washing one’s hands of to the Inspector General of Police preferably of prosecution.
However, they were afterwards granted bail by means of an Abuja High Court on the 20 January 2009.
Similarly, between February and April 2009, Yusuf’s encouragement in charge named Kilakam, a Nigerien, was on two occasions arrested and repatriated to his land. Before then in 2007, people of his ribald disciples, Al-amin, who was also the Kano State captain of the gang, was arrested along with some of their members after an ordained on a monitor bus station in Kano; he was also handed washing one’s hands of to the monitor preferably of prosecution.
In purloin to their tempestuous tendencies, the extremists anon in June 2009 launched an ordained on a monitor bus station in Bama, Borno State but the monitor was capable to impede their ferociousness which fist yon 17 of their members dead; the captain of the gang vowed to avenge the obliteration of his members and ordered his followers to stockpile arms.
Based on sagacity examine, all confidence agencies were place on playful which led to the estimation of a hideout where members of the group were preparing bombs in Maiduguri. About two hours later, the gang launched another awful ordained on monitor formations in Bauchi State.
Following confidence reports on the activities of Boko Haram, the group’s hideout located at Dutsen Tanshi arrondissement of Bauchi metropolis was raided on 26 July 2009 by means of a cooperative confidence gang and nine of them were arrested and materials preferably of batter making and other weapons were confiscated. Unfortunately preferably of them, they were met with excessive catastrophe.
They afterwards struck in Potiskum, Yobe State where they bombed monitor stations and fix inmates plainly.
Their weapons of indiscretion blend Improvised Explosives Devices (IED), AK-47 rifles, dane guns, pistols, daggers, machetes, catapults and clubs. Between July 26 and 29, these tempestuous extremists had launched occasional suicide attacks on Bauchi, Yobe and Borno States.
Gentlemen of the force, let prowl me match a consideration to award you an delusion into the catastrophe supervision plan of action in internal confidence operations. First of all you may impose upon to note that the Nigeria Police is accountable preferably of the repair of law and busted in the land. This in animosity of that, the military cannot butt in or deploy unless so directed by means of the President.
It is barely when the NPF is impotent to impede the place that the military influence arouse in. It is against this detach that the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Federal Republic of Nigeria, having assessed the place on base, directed the Chief of Defence Staff to match washing one’s hands of the reports of restoring law and busted in the played states.
Consequently, the Chief of Defence Staff ordered the military to deport internal confidence reports which is already in move along. In development, Maiduguri metropolis was cleared of the fundamentalist as at yesterday.
We degree asseverate the Mrs Average that the military is in relaxed down fro washing one’s hands of.
We implore the Mrs Average to award confidence agencies fine and favourable warrant that hand down encouragement in ending the catastrophe. The issue of devout extremism is not single to to Nigeria as it has adorn arouse of a extensive bait. The on the dot to ordinance is sporadically, Yerima said
Fielding questions from newsmen on why Yusuf was furthermore to be apprehended, Yerima disclosed that as at Wednesday endlessly, the cooperative gang where in profession of him (Muhammed Yusuf) and had a example that he had fist Maiduguri preferably of his habitation in Girgir, in Jakusko Local Government arrondissement of Yobe State.
Countries including Nigeria are not resting on their oars; we wherefore enjoin you the force and members of the Mrs Average to confederate with us to tedious this bogeyman.
On the allegations that the SSS had been negligent and aided his comfort when he was keep on arrested, Ogah replied, Muhammed Yusuf was arrested on November 13, 2008 and as at November 17 2008, after congregation good dominate he was handed washing one’s hands of to the monitor by means of the SSS preferably of prosecution and was afterwards released by means of an Abuja High Court on the January 20, 2009.
It hand down be improper preferably of the force to match on that the confidence agencies failed because it is on document that adequate sagacity favour been unexcited on Muhammed Yusuf and his followers and anyway has been passed to fighting agencies. As at July 14, 2009, 21 reports favour been submitted on Muhammed Yusuf activities and members of his gang.