Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Boko Haram Commanders Fight Over Cease-Fire

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Confusion over the ceasefire declared by a faction of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has persisted with a top member of the group dismissing any future dialogue with the Federal Government.

Mujhahedeen Marwana, who claims to be the genuine second-in-command to the Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, predicated his position on the fact that federal troops had of recent allegedly killed at least 47 Boko Haram emissaries in failed dialogue efforts.

Mujhahedeen Marwana was said to have granted a foreign journalist an exclusive in Hausa language.

Recall that on Sunday, Muhammed Abdulaziz, who also claimed to be Boko Haram leader for southern and northern Borno, had in a statement said they had agreed to cease fire because of talks they had with the Borno State Government.

Abdulaziz advised members of the sect to lay down their arms, warning that anyone that failed to do so risked arrest by security agencies.

“We are going to comply with the cease- fire order, ‘ he added and then went ahead to proudly announce that “once top members of our group, including Imam Abubakar Shekau, are in support of the need for a ceasefire, other smaller factions can be dealt with easily.”

But in the latest interview by Mujhahedeen Marwana, the said second-in-command, he was reported to have spoken authoritatively about meetings between members of the group and some top Northerners, including Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State, a former Minister of Defence, Haliru Bello, and Sheik Dahiru Bauchi.

Mujhahedeen Marwana also claimed that four principal members of the group were being “unjustly” held in Kano, adding that no cease-fire can take place under such circumstances.

Insisting that the four members must first be released as a pre-condition for any future developments, he added that including others also being held in Abuja, Maiduguri and other locations in the North.

Marwana told his interviewer in Bauchi, “Many people have called us for dialogue many times but the government is fooling itself, thinking they are clever but [are] deceiving themselves. They are insisting they don’t know us.

“It is false. We have met their representatives many times but because of their evil plan, they kept denying (us) because of their greed and wickedness.”

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