Nigeria’s violent Islamist sect, Boko
Haram, is gradually moving down south to Lagos, Ogun, and Rivers States,
following the.....
extensive military onslaught against it in the North-East
geopolitical zone, Babafemi Ojodu, a senator, said on Wednesday.
The
senator spoke at a lecture organized to commemorate the 70th birthday
of Ropo Sekoni, a retired Professor of Comparative Literature and
Cultural Studies, in Lagos.
Mr. Ojodu
said that during a visit by a team of senators to the North East,
military authorities informed them that documents recovered from the
dreaded Islamist insurgents revealed that they still have about 6,000
fighters ready to fight to the finish.
Some of the members are hiding at the Sambisa forest far away from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
“We
were told by the military that the sect members are moving into Ogere
in Ogun State, Lagos and Port Harcourt,” Mr. Ojudu said. “The military
said they are trying to flush them them out but we don’t know how much
they have succeeding.”
The senator
added, “The Boko Haram issue is the biggest problem before us but we are
not tackling it with urgency, We are busy talking about 2015.”
Mr.
Ojodu stated that his team’s five-day official assignment ended
abruptly on the third day because the atmosphere in the area was “not
conducive.”
The military, according
to Mr. Ojudu, showed the visiting senators several video clips,
including how members of the dreaded sect butchered the 10 traders from
Bodija market, Ibadan, who had travelled to the North to buy beans.
The
documents recovered from the sect also revealed that members had vowed
that they would fight to the finish, Mr. Ojodu, representing Ekiti
Central, added.
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