"Boko Haram emanated from Egypt"- Senator Buka Ibrahim

                                                 Senator Buka Abba Ibrahim

A former governor of Yobe state and a serving senator, Buka Abba Ibrahim, has revealed that the deadly Boko Haram terror group emanated from far away Egypt.

enatorS Buka Abba Ibrahim

In a report published on various news websites, the senator stated that Boko Haram started in Nigeria about 10 years ago with the existence of the ideological movement in Northern Nigeria since the 1970s after the killing of the sect’s spiritual leader in Egypt in 1970 by President Gammal Abdel Naseer.

He denied claims that politics is the cause of Boko Haram in Nigeria and that the sect first landed in Minna, the capital of Niger State before moving to Kano, Yobe and finally settled in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state between 2001 and 2002.

“The History of Boko haram dates back to 10, 15 and even 20 years or more ago. This thing didn’t start six years ago as largely claimed. It started much, much earlier than the six years. Boko Haram is a philosophy driving by warped religious ideology.  It is strictly an ideology on ground in some parts of the world for quite sometimes now”he said.

“It all started, we were told in Egypt during the reign of Gammal Abdel Naseer who died in 1970.  Naseer beheaded the leader of the Boko Haram Islamic sect in Egypt in 1970, an action that made the followers to spread to other parts of Africa, most especially north and western parts of Africa including Nigeria.
“When they came to Nigeria, their spread started in Minna, now the capital of Niger State, up to Kano and some other areas before moving to Yobe, and Maiduguri where they permanently settled down and later turned out to be a full blown militant group because of the high handed ness of the Nigeria Police against them.
“Police in that part of the country started killing some of them even at the grave yard while carrying out burial of some of their dead ones which consequently made them to fully militant by first taken arms and ammunitions against the Police and men of other security agencies and by extension, the Nigerian state.“Boko, meaning, western education, is haram, meaning, prohibited, forbidden or unacceptable. Is just an idea that later turned to be something else. It has nothing to do with being employed by politicians or being used as political thugs but the issue of youth unemployment worsened it further by the unemployed youths serving as large army of recruitment for the insurgents”.

source:naij.com