MAIDUGURI – Hours after a splinter group of the Jamaatu Ahlil Sunna
Lidawati wal Jihad (J.A.S.L.J), aka Boko Haram was quoted on a BBC
radio broadcast, claiming responsibility for the Saturday’s killing of
their ex-leader’s brother in-law, Babakura Alhaji Fugu, another faction
of the sect has denied responsibility.
The group described the death of Fugu, as painful and unfortunate,
saying, they were not the ones responsible for his death as reported on
the Hausa Service of the BBC.
In a telephone chat with Vanguard’s reporter in Maiduguri, one of
the group’s top members, Abu Kaka, shortly after the BBC report, said
the claim in the media concerning his group was false .
According to him, “We are not happy with the way we were being
misquoted and misrepresented in the media … Today, we received with
shock the unfortunate killing of the family member of our leader Sheik
Muhammed Yusuf, but to our dismay we later on heard it on the BBC that
we said we were responsible for it. This is unacceptable because the BBC
cannot receive a text message (sent to their head office) without our
name on it and ascribed it to us.”
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