Nigeria's deadly Islamist sect, Jama'atu Ahlussunnah lidda'awati wal Jihad, also known as "Boko Haram" has shot and killed 7 persons in Umarari area of Maiduguri late Saturday. Also today the sect killed , Mustafa Baale a prominent leader of the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) in the state.
Nigeria's deadly Islamist sect, Jama'atu Ahlussunnah lidda'awati wal Jihad, also known as "Boko Haram" has shot and killed 7 persons in Umarari area of Maiduguri late Saturday. Also today the sect killed , Mustafa Baale a prominent leader of the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) in the state.
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SaharaReporters learns that Alhaji Baale, a former member of the Borno state legislative assembly was the caretaker chairman of Jere local government area before he was killed.
The latest killings underscores the growing powers of the sect to kill politicians and state officials at will after successfully suicide-bombing the National police headquarters in Abuja a few weeks ago.
Nigerian security forces are completely incapable of matching the deadly force and precision with which the group has exercised its killing prowess despite repeated public bravado by the police and army.
The audacious outing of the group have forced major public officials to apologize to it last week. First the former governor of Gombe state, Danjuma Goje, publicly apologized to the sect mid-June last week the governor of Bauchi state, Isah Yuguda, called on the group to forgive him for the human rights abuses perpetrated against the group under his watch. prior to their public apologies the group spokesperson, Abu Zaid had stated that they were going to hunt down the governors in the state where the group suffered serious security clampdown in 2010.
Boko Haram is fast taking over the 19 northern states according to intelligence sources. They have operational sub-headquarters in Maiduguri, Bauchi, Suleija, Gombe and the federal capital territory, Abuja.
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