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The Nigerian government over the weekend disclosed that it did not have any plan to prosecuting any Nigerian for now based on the various allegations made by Davis. The government also denied hiring Stephen Davis, saying that it was not clear yet on his alleged status, as acting as a Boko Haram negotiator on its behalf.
Speaking to newsmen the spokesperson for Nigeria's secret police, the Department of State Security Service (DSS), stated that it was uncharitable to drag Ihejirika's name as a sponsor of Boko Haram, after he helped in dismantling Boko Haram structures across the north. Maryln Ogar, DSS spokesperson stated that "“I would want to say here that it is absolutely uncharitable for us as Nigerians to reward somebody who laid down his life in pursuing these same people, for us to accept that he can in anyway be associated as sponsoring the same sect.
"This was the same same that pushed Boko Haram from Kano and other parts of the north to the Sambisa forest. Turning round to link him to Boko Haram because he is no longer in power is unfair."
The northern oligarchy who are the real sponsors of Boko Haram have not forgiven Ihejirika fro frustrating their attempts to foist northern Islamic domination on the rest of Nigeria via Boko Haram. As a result they have been clutching at several straws to get Ihejirika. First attempt was to threaten to take him to Hague for what they alleged as the manner Ihejirika was going after Boko Haram members. When that failed, they waited for another frivolous excuse to use.
Davis had was reported to have said that the former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff and former Chief of Army Staff, General Onyeabo Azubuike Ihejirika are Boko Haram sponsors.
He also accused an unnamed senior official of the Central Bank of Nigeria as well as a man based in Cairo, Egypt whom he claimed operates as Boko Haram’s bagman as major players in the funding and continued existence of the deadly Islamist sect.
Davis, who said he did not want to mention the name of the CBN official, as it may affect investigation by Nigeria’s security service, stated that his allegations were informed by discussions he had with several Boko Haram field commanders over a long period of time.
He also accused an unnamed senior official of the Central Bank of Nigeria as well as a man based in Cairo, Egypt whom he claimed operates as Boko Haram’s bagman as major players in the funding and continued existence of the deadly Islamist sect.
Davis, who said he did not want to mention the name of the CBN official, as it may affect investigation by Nigeria’s security service, stated that his allegations were informed by discussions he had with several Boko Haram field commanders over a long period of time.
Ogar however stated that the DSS has once again invited former governor Ali Modi Sherrif for interrogation as they have done on previous occasions.
She also dismissed allegations against the Service by Stephen Davis, who had accused them of not investigating a purported Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) official who handles the funding of Boko Haram activities.
Davis had stated that the DSS has in its custody three cousins arrested over planning April 14 Nyanya bombing whose uncle in the CBN has not been investigated. Ogar, who described Davis as a self-styled negotiator, stated that of the six suspects in custody over the Nyanya bombing, none is related to another by blood.
Parading the suspects before journalists, they denied having any uncle or being related to each other. Fielding questions from Journalists for the first time, one of the alleged masterminds of the Nyanya bombing, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche denied being a Boko Haram member or being involved in the attack.
Ogwuche argued that he was away at school in Sudan when the attack happened and he denied jumping bail, asking why he was not arrested at the airport. He admitted to being detained by the police because he belonged to a banned group in the United Kingdom where he received jihadist lectures and participated in demonstrations.
Ogwuche also confessed to being friends with a Boko Haram member through whom he gave three thousand naira each to about 11 widowed wives of the sect’s members.
However one of the other suspects paraded alongside Ogwuche yesterday implicated him in the Nyanya bombing, when he confessed that Ogwuche was a visitor at the Utako Kishi Clinic where the attack was planned.
Davis had claimed to be acting as negotiator between Boko Haram and the federal government for the safe release of the over 200 girls allegedly abducted from Government Girl Secondary School, Chilbok, in Borno state on 14 April 2014.
Reacting to this during a security briefing, on Friday, in Abuja, the Coordinator of the National Information Centre, Mike Omeri insisted that the Federal Government had not hired anybody to negotiate on its behalf with the Boko Haram sect.
“For now, the Federal Government of Nigeria have not appointed anyone to negotiate on its behalf with the Boko Haram sect, anytime it decides to do so, the Federal Government will make it known to the public”
“On the various allegations made by the alleged negotiator, the Federal Government is still investigating it, whatever should be done rightly will be done but there is no plan to probe any Nigerian for now,” he said.
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Davis had stated that the DSS has in its custody three cousins arrested over planning April 14 Nyanya bombing whose uncle in the CBN has not been investigated. Ogar, who described Davis as a self-styled negotiator, stated that of the six suspects in custody over the Nyanya bombing, none is related to another by blood.
Parading the suspects before journalists, they denied having any uncle or being related to each other. Fielding questions from Journalists for the first time, one of the alleged masterminds of the Nyanya bombing, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche denied being a Boko Haram member or being involved in the attack.
Ogwuche argued that he was away at school in Sudan when the attack happened and he denied jumping bail, asking why he was not arrested at the airport. He admitted to being detained by the police because he belonged to a banned group in the United Kingdom where he received jihadist lectures and participated in demonstrations.
Ogwuche also confessed to being friends with a Boko Haram member through whom he gave three thousand naira each to about 11 widowed wives of the sect’s members.
However one of the other suspects paraded alongside Ogwuche yesterday implicated him in the Nyanya bombing, when he confessed that Ogwuche was a visitor at the Utako Kishi Clinic where the attack was planned.
Davis had claimed to be acting as negotiator between Boko Haram and the federal government for the safe release of the over 200 girls allegedly abducted from Government Girl Secondary School, Chilbok, in Borno state on 14 April 2014.
Reacting to this during a security briefing, on Friday, in Abuja, the Coordinator of the National Information Centre, Mike Omeri insisted that the Federal Government had not hired anybody to negotiate on its behalf with the Boko Haram sect.
“For now, the Federal Government of Nigeria have not appointed anyone to negotiate on its behalf with the Boko Haram sect, anytime it decides to do so, the Federal Government will make it known to the public”
“On the various allegations made by the alleged negotiator, the Federal Government is still investigating it, whatever should be done rightly will be done but there is no plan to probe any Nigerian for now,” he said.
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