Boko Haram Attacks

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PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN When this radical Islamist sect nicknamed BOKO HARAM started their jihadist war some years ago, people thought it was a phase that would soon pass like the other sects that had reigned before them. What they did not know was that foreign sponsors are backing this particular sect and some highly placed Northerners are backing them too. I mean how do you explain where a leader of the Sect was arrested and the security agencies ie the police just allowed the man to 'escape'? ESCAPE Or they just opened their door and asked him to GO? Now the Leader of the Boko Haram Sect escaped and two days after, ther was this well cordinated attacks that left at least 143 people dead in Kano. The figure though not confirmed by our Government was given by an official in the Government hospitals that the corpse dead were deposited. The official said that the figure represented those in the mortuary as well as those whose bodies have already been claimed by families for burial. Unfortunately, our people will now come up with wrong figures because we dont even have correct census of people or statistics. Well Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the attacks that started Friday after their Jummai prayers. Soldiers and police officers have been guarding strategic places and areas in the city since last year. How come they were not able to stop the carnage and wanton destruction? We are talking about the bombing of Police Stations? What it means is that our Security Agencies are not effective and their usefulness remains a question to be answered by Government. I mean the armed personnels were the targets for daring to arrest their Sect leader as unfortunately, the uniformed bodies of many of their colleagues lay in the overflowing mortuary of Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital, Kano. An eye witness account stated this

There were bombs and then gunmen were attacking police and police came back with attacks

, In a statement issued late Friday, the Police spokesman, Olusola Amore said attackers targeted five police buildings, two immigration offices and the Zonal headquarters of the State Security Service, Nigeria's secret police. He did not confirm how many of their men were killed or injured.

Nwakpa O. Nwakpa, a spokesman for the Nigerian Red Cross, said volunteers offered first aid to the wounded, and evacuated those seriously injured to the hospitals. He said officials continued to collect corpses scattered around sites of the attacks. A survey of two hospitals by their organisation showed at least 50 people were injured in Friday's attacks.

The State Government to avert more killings and bombing declared a 24-hour curfew late Friday. Residents and visitors meanwhile are hiding inside their homes amid the fighting. A Boko Haram spokesman claimed responsibility for the attacks in a message to journalists. He said the attack came as the state government refused to release Boko Haram members held by the police. The sponsors of Boko Haram must be very rich and influential. This kind of cordinated and daring attacks carried out with increasingly sophisticated weapons and ammunition must be costing a fortune. Its only the Politicians and the Oil cartels that have that kind of money and connections. These attacks are becoming bloody and spreading from Maiduguri to Niger State, Kaduna and now Kano. When will the Federal Government wake up to put a stop to this senseless killing and destruction of properties? Nigeria cannot implement strict Shariah laws as this is a SECULAR Nation. Can someone please tell the Boko Haram people pls.