Boko Haram: We killed Gubio

Daily Trust

3 February 2011

Boko Haram: We killed Gubio

The Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, more popularly known as Boko Haram, yesterday dismissed claims by Governor Ali Modu Sheriff that political rivals killed ANPP’s Borno State gubernatorial candidate Alhaji Modu Fannami Gubio and it claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Gubio, a cousin of the governor, was killed along with Sheriff’s younger brother Alhaji and six others in Maiduguri last Friday. The governor had said on Monday night that he suspected politicians, and not Boko Haram, of being behind the killing, given its sophisticated nature.

For the second time, the group also claimed responsibility for the Christmas Eve bombings in Jos, Plateau State which claimed the lives of many people, and it promised to launch more attacks in the coming days until, they said, an Islamic government is established in Plateau State.

Yesterday’s sensational claims were made on printed A4-size posters that were pasted on several public and private buildings across the troubled Borno State capital. Residents of Maiduguri and environs woke up to find them on the walls, supposedly pasted by sect members. Neither Daily Trust reporters nor the authorities could say for certain that Boko Haram pasted the notices. The open letter, which carried the logo of the sect, also claimed responsibility for attacks in Bauchi State.