EARLY morning blast on Tuesday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, left three members of the Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Restore Order, in Borno, critically injured, while members of the JTF were said to have made several arrests in connection with the bomb blast.
Speaking by phone on Tuesday, JTF spokesman, Colonel Victor Ebhaleme, told the Nigerian Tribune that the blasts, which occurred at Bullumkuttu at the roundabout leading to Pompomari, hit the JTF vehicle and three members sustained injuries.
“The blast was targeted at members of the Joint Task Force and three of our men sustained injuries but we made some arrests and investigation is ongoing on the matter to bring those culprits to book,” Ebhaleme said.
In another development, the Borno State chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Yuguda Ndurvwa, has condemned Governor Kashim Shettima’s compensation of 33 Muslim Boko Haram victims with 11 vehicles, cash donations and rebuilding of their houses destroyed by the Islamic sect, stating that the Christian community in the state is not happy with the exclusion of its members from government’s compensations, as many pastors and Christians were killed in the two-year sectarian crises that claimed many lives and properties.
He said: “I am hearing it now from you for the first time and this is a very privileged piece of information with which we are not happy, but [I am] sad on how the governor could segregate or exclude Christians killed and injured in the Boko Haram attacks, killings and bombings of our members and their churches and houses.”
He said he was summoning a meeting of the executive council of CAN on Tuesday [yesterday], to deliberate on the actions of the governor to compensate Muslim victims, while excluding their fellow Christians in the distribution and disbursement of vehicles and funds to victims of the attacks at Zannari and Kaleri wards.
The cleric, however, noted that during the February 18, 2006 sectarian crisis, no compensations were paid or distributed by the state government to any of the affected victims. The same, he added, happened when many Christians were killed and their churches burnt by the Boko Haram sect in 2009 and 2010, none of the victims or family members was compensated by the state government.
He said CAN, in 2010, demanded for a compensation of N1.5 billion for the destroyed houses and churches from the state government, but up to the time he was speaking on the “plights and sufferings” of Christians caused by the Boko Haram killings and bombings, no kobo or building material was paid and presented to any of the victims.
Meanwhile, The orientation camp of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Plateau State, was thrown into confusion on Tuesday following a rumour that the camp had been invaded by members of the Boko Haram sect.
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The group behind the latest violence in northern Nigeria is known by several different names, including al-Sunnah wal Jamma, or Followers of Muhammad's Teachings in Arabic, and Boko Haram, which means "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa dialect.
The group was founded in 2002 in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, allegedly by Mohammed Yusuf, a religious teacher.
In 2004, it moved to Kanamma in Yobe state, close to the border with Niger, where it set up a base dubbed "Afghanistan", from which it attacked nearby police outposts.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/07/200972913529620235.html
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The group came into existence in the 1960's,[citation needed] but only started to draw attention in 2002. Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf became its leader in the same year. In 2004 it moved to Kanamma, Yobe State, where it set up a base called "Afghanistan", used to attack nearby police outposts, killing police officers.[10] Yusuf is hostile to democracy and the secular education system, vowing that "this war that is yet to start would continue for long" if the political and educational system was not changed.[11]
Its followers are said to be influenced by the Koranic phrase which says: "Anyone who is not governed by what Allah has revealed is among the transgressors". Boko Haram promotes a version of Islam which makes it "haram", or forbidden, for Muslims to take part in any political or social activity associated with western society. This includes voting in elections, wearing shirts and trousers or receiving a secular education. Boko Haram regards the Nigerian state as being run by non-believers, even when the country had a Muslim president. Since the Sokoto caliphate, which ruled parts of what is now northern Nigeria, Niger and southern Cameroon, fell under British control in 1903, there has been resistance among the area's Muslims to Western education. Many Muslim families still refuse to send their children to government-run "Western schools", a problem compounded by the ruling elite which does not see education as a priority. Against this background, the charismatic Muslim cleric, Mohammed Yusuf, formed Boko Haram in Maiduguri in 2002. He sat up a religious complex, which included a mosque and an Islamic school. Many poor Muslim families from across Nigeria, as well as neighbouring countries, enrolled their children at the school. But Boko Haram was not only interested in education. Its political goal was to create an Islamic state, and the school became a recruiting ground for jihadis to fight the state. read more on this link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram
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