The Australian priest who tried to negotiate the release of the over 200 Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram,says he will in due course name ‘bigger sponsors’ of the sect.
Dr.Stephen Davis who has already named former governor of Borno state, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and former chief of army staff, Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, as backers of the sect told the on-line publication ,The Cable,that the sponsors “epitomise all that the Boko Haram fighters are seeking to eliminate from Nigeria.”
He dismissed insinuation that Boko Haram commanders named the All Progressives Congress (APC) as their sponsor.
“ I have been in close contact with the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JAS) and Boko Haram over several years. In that time, I have never heard any political party mentioned by any Boko Haram leader as funding or being associated with Boko Haram,” he said.
“The JAS leaders and Boko Haram commanders have only mentioned individuals like former Governor Sheriff. I heard Sheriff was APC and now PDP but his political party is irrelevant to me. I have never mentioned political parties in my discussions with the JAS and Boko Haram. The names of individual sponsors were given by Boko Haram leaders, not their political party association.”
He added: “Former governor Sheriff was specifically mentioned many times. For example, Sheriff was mentioned as sponsoring trips for the boys to go for the Lesser Hajj. There the boys are “reorientated”. “In effect they are recruited to Boko Haram. When they return to Nigeria the recruits are then taken off for further reorientation by which they mean teaching and for training. Some of the training took place in Mali by Tuareg leaders but now more training is conducted locally.”
On the true identity of the ‘Abubakar Shekau” claimed to have been killed last week by the military,Davies said: “I have heard so many senior commanders tell me that Shekau is dead. It was several weeks after that before a Shekau video appeared on YouTube.
“ When I viewed that video with JAS leaders they immediately said, ‘That boy,we have used him before.’ They were totally dismissive of any claim that Shekau was still alive. They referred to the person in the video as the “fake Shekau”.
“Some months later one of the senior commanders told me the name of the fake Shekau was Abdul Mutallif. The commander who named him was the one who wrote the script that the fake Shekau reads from in the videos.
“ But I have heard they have used more than one fake Shekau. In July this year I was told the fake Shekau is Isa Damasaka. Earlier in June they referred to him as Bashir. We had been in communication with him over the release of the Chibok girls. Isa Damasaka is one of the names the military has released when identifying the man killed at Kondunga last week. He has also been identified as Bashir Mohammed so I am confident this man is indeed the fake Shekau.
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Dr. Stephen Davies should make a public pronouncement of whoever be the. sponsorer of Boko Haram.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised you're a priest and you allow all this controversy hover around you Dr Davis. Modu sheriff,sends the boy to the lesser hajj,where they're mentored. By this statement,the link btw Islam and Boko haram is well established. And as intolerant as I know Muslims to be towards other religion, what are the chances that the Army chief,who is a Christian from the south could be one of the sponsors of this Islamic affiliated group? We'll require you to back up your claims with other proofs rather than just telling us the Boko haram commanders told you. We may not be as dumb as you appear to be,by believing that the Boko haram commanders will confide in you as much give away vital information on their sources of support. The brain of a fish or a cockroach Brian will be able to reckon with the fact that there are more chances that they'll prefer to divert the attention of people from the real sponsors. A greater intellectual disposition will ask,could the change of camp by Sherrif contribute to his being mentioned as one of the sponsors? It could also lead you to look at the possibility of associating the Army chief with someone who had serially been accused of having a romance with the sect in the past just to make it real. I guess it almost worked,but we weren't as dumb as you thought. Don't go around thinking we're in any way waiting for you to name more sponsors as we already know them and they're almost running out of materials to cover themselves. Time will tell and time isn't going to stop or wait for anyone. Please Davis,Mind your business! Work for God and not against him.
ReplyDeleteOga davis spare us all this"I will" stuff and tell us what we want to hear. That is who are the sponsors and what is their motives? chikina.
ReplyDeleterubish people who else wl they be if not northern elders?
ReplyDeleteGuess work
DeleteHmmm...i doubt your story pastor Davis
ReplyDeleteWe Nigerian already knew who are the sponsor of b/h .(1)a friend to president (2)Rtd Gen.etc
ReplyDeleteyou wish! who is a friend to jona, your muslim boko haram sherrif? useless sets of pigs!
DeleteI AM SURPRISED AT ABARA COMMENT THAT BECAUSE CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF IS A CHRISTIAN HE CAN NOT WORK WITH MUSLIM BOKO HARAM. IT LOOKS YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR COUNTRY VERY WELL. WHEN IT COMES TO MONEY IN NIGERIA ALL ARE IN THE SAME BOAT. THOUGH LIKE THE TIME OF NOAH THERE WILL STILL BE SOME PEOPLE THAT WILL BE SINGLED OUT AS RIGHTEOUS . PLEASE DON'T BE FOOLED . THE NEGOTIATOR FROM AUSTRALIA MIGHT BE CORRECT IN ALL THAT HE SAID. YOU SHOULD ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION "WHY SHOULD HE DECEIVE NIGERIANS" REMEMBER HE IS NOT BLACK ? SEARCH YOUR OWN MIND IF YOU ARE SINCERE IN YOUR COMMENT. FEMI
ReplyDeleteMr Femi,I requested that Mr Davis back up his claims that the Army chief is one of the sponsors of Boko haram by providing other proofs other that what he said the commanders told him. Don't forget that there still exists a possibility of him being fed the wrong information to create distraction from the truth. Don't rule out the possibility of Davis being paid to execute this mission,, or you think only Africans are corrupt? In this issue,we need to give it a multidimensional approach.
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