Thursday, December 4, 2014

FG Backs Boko Haram – Muslim Sect Leader


            “Nigerian Federal Government is a real Boko Haram,” Sheikh Muhammad Mahmoud Turi claims.

The leader of El-Zakzaky Muslim Sect in Kano harshly criticised the current government actions during his meeting with journalists at NUJ Press Centre on Thursday, 4 December. He denunciated the Federal Government for collaborating with Boko Haram and direct assistance in organizing chaos that is happening all over the country.

Trying to substantiate his guesswork Sheikh Mahmoud stressed out that the coordinated operation of the sect in the North is a vivid indicator of the government’s involvement in the sect activities. He declared that there is no way the Federal Government can absolve itself from the terrorism and it is fully responsible for the present day situation in the country.

“If one is saying that government is not Boko Haram, how did the soldiers get guns and killed us in Zaria? Are they not the Boko Haram? Who killed the three sons of our national leader in broad day light in Zaria? The soldiers killed our people. Those children were university students and Boko Haram means education is sin, then the soldiers killed them for nothing sake! The soldiers are the Boko Haram.

I cannot agree with the vice president or any other person who made such a presentation that the government can be exonerated from the activities of Boko Haram. Nobody anywhere in Nigeria can agree to that—except if that person is either afraid or he is a politician. You can never exonerate or separate the government from Boko Haram,” he stated.

According to Sheikh Mahmoud, the Islamic Movement members would start off a six-day mass trekking ritual from Kano to Zaria on Sunday, December 7, to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, a freedom fighter.


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