The extremist sect, Jama’atu ahlis sunnah lil daawati wal jihad,
popularly called Boko Haram, claimed responsibility for attacking
telecommunication base stations in Borno, Yobe, Bauchi, and Kano states
saying it was its way of punishing them for alleged culpability in
aiding security agencies to kill its members.
“We are attacking GSM companies because they have helped security
agencies to arrest and kill many of our members, and we will continue
with our attacks on them until they stop,” Mr. Abu Qaqa, spokesperson
for the sect said Thursday evening.
Mr. Qaqa’s statement came just as security officials lambasted the
sect, and faulted its logic that telecommunication companies had a hand
in
the killing of its members. “How can they tghey say telcom companies
are aiding security forces to arrest their members when a lot of them
are tired and disgruntled” said a Joint Task Force official who argued
that the difficulties the sect is currently facing has its root in
internal rebellion and the counter response of victims.
“Did they register their SIM cards as Boko Haram members?” the JTF
official queried adding that security agencies have no need for
telecommunication companies to arrest sect members.
In its message, Boko Haram also expanded on its operational
objectives beyond the establishment of an Islamic state, putting on
notice those that try to prevent them as enemy that will be “fought
with all we have”.
Mr. Qaqa put the Hausa service of the Voice of America in this
category accusing the international broadcaster for “fighting against
Islamic religion”. For all journalists working with the broadcaster, the
sect promised a reward of blood, adding “We advise any reporter or
correspondent working with the station to resign, otherwise we will not
hesitate any of them we come across anywhere.”
Mr. Qaqa also said the sect will intensify attacks on primary
schools as a result of the “attack on Islamic schools by security
agencies” boasting that the recent resolve by governors and traditional
rulers in the north to fight the sect “will come to nothing”.
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