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Nigerian Islamist Anti-Corruption Boko Haram Leader, Mohammed Yusuf Arrested...Shot Dead In Police Custody!
31 July 2009
Mohammmed Yusuf, reputed leader of the Islamic insurgents in the Northern part of Nigeria, has been reported dead in police custody sources revealed. "He has been killed inside our yard. You can come and see his body at the state police command headquarters," Isa Azare, spokesman for the Maiduguri police command, told Reuters news agency, according to a BBC story. He was kidnapped by Nigerian soldiers earlier in the day, after reportedly being found with his younthful family at his parents-in-law's house. He was taken into custody in the city of Maiduguri amid fierce fighting with security forces since Sunday. In a joint press briefing today at the Defence Headquarters with Force Public Relations officer ACP Emmanuel CS Ojukwu, and Assistant Director Public Relations, State Security Service, Marilyn Ogar, and the Director of Defence Intelligence (DDI), Col. Mohammed Yerima provided a partial update of the uprising with the "Boko Haram", an Islamist group opposed to "western systmes that give birth to corruption and mad-governnace in Nigeria" and seeking to install Islam fully in the primarily Moslem northern states. Approximately 19 Northern states were said to be keen in participating in the groups sturggles against the most corruptible government in the world. But new reports fresh from members of the group suggest that the struggles against mal-influential western education and lack of rule of law were in fact among many socio-political responses needed to fight corruption and poverty brought by successive Nigerian westerned oriented leaders. According to Dr. Abubakar Sadiq Mohammed, teacher of political science at the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria: "Mohammed Yusuf has been critical of political developments in Nigeria as well as Western education. He specifically blames western education for training the looters of the Nigerian treasury". The five days of unrest have claimed some 500 alleged "Boko Haram" members but rights groups claim that the Nigerian security forces, known for using excessive force, may have murdered scores of unarmed civilians in the fighting.
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