Boko Haram Speaks: Arrest Ali Modu Sheriff, Meet Our Other Demands, And we Will Cease Fire
Members of the dreaded Jama’atul Ahlis Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad
group also known as Boko Haram seem to have added a new demand to their
list. The group have said they are now willing to seize fire and stop
all atrocities being perpetrated by their group and work against other
existing groups if the State and Federal Government will truly heed to
their demands.
The acclaimed spokesman of the group, Abu Mohammed Ibn Abdulazeez, who
doubles as the second-in-command (Amir) to their leader Imam Abubakar
Shekau revealed this in a tele-conference with journalists in Maiduguri
on Thursday, stating that if the state and the federal government want
the group to cease fire completely, then former Borno State governor,
Ali Modu Sheriff, must be arrested and prosecuted according to the law
of the land.
He also said that apart from the arrest of Senator Ali Sheriff,
government should compensate the group and rebuild their places of
worship which were destroyed during 2009 uprising.
Abu Abdulazeez further stressed that, all their members who were
arrested and are under the custody of security agencies must be released
with immediate effect, and all their wives who were displaced following
the crises as well as their children must be rehabilitated into the
society to create room for a fruitful dialogue with the Federal
Government.