How we formed Boko Haram, by Spokesman

Vanguard

27 July 2011

How we formed Boko Haram, by Spokesman

*Says original name was Taliban

*To reveal sponsors’ identities

*Dismisses Akhwat Akwop threats

*Youth corps members flee Borno

BY LEKE ADESERI, KINGSLEY OMONOBI, NDAHI MARAMA with Agency Reports

MAIDUGURI-The Jama’atul Ahlus Sunna Lid Da’awatis Jihad,JASLIDAT, otherwise known as Boko Haram has been quoted by an on-line report that the masterminds of the radical Islamic sect are some prominent Northerners, whose identities would be made public soon.

According to the report, by an adherent of the  slain leader of the group, Muhammad Yusuf,  who also serves as the spokesman, Mallam Ali Teshako, the sect emerged due to lack of good governance and injustice in the country.

He said the original brains behind the sect’s formation were Northern elite who, under the pretext of sponsoring youths to study in the Middle-East, offered them as mercenaries to countries interested in training terrorists.