Sheikh Abubakar Shekau, leader of the violent Islamic sect, Boko
Haram, has reportedly been shot and deposed by members of his own sect,
Boko Haram.
Abu Zamira Mohammed, who is the sect’s leader negotiating with the
federal government has been appointed as the new leader by the group’s
Shura Council.
The group also said that its ceasefire declaration
is working, pointing out that there has not been any suicide bombing
since the declaration. It noted its condemnation of the Yobe massacre
where 40 students were killed, adding that some politicians now commit
murder and ascribe it to Boko Haram
On the Kano blasts last
Monday, which led to the death of about 45 people, the group blamed it
on federal government’s tardiness in responding to the ceasefire
agreement.
A joint report published yesterday, by Dr. Stephen
Davis, a conflict resolution expert and an adviser to the last three
Nigerian Presidents and Phillip van Niekerk, President of Calabar
Africa, a strategic advisory company focusing on Africa, and former
Editor of South Africa’s Mail & Guardian newspaper, in the US based
online newspaper, huffingtonpost.com, quoted one Imam Liman Ibrahim,
spiritual leader of Boko Haram, as saying that "the change in leadership
was prelude to peace negotiations with the federal government." READ MORE: http://news.naij.com/42231.html
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