Few days ago we publish an Interview with Sani Haliru, An Ex-Boko Haram Member who repented and converted to Christianity. He said in the Interview that is the major Sponsor of Terrorism in*Nigeria.
Read the Interview here >> Exposed: List of Boko Haram Sponsors in Nigeria
Now the spokesman of IBB PRINCE KASSIM AFEGBUA, MEDIA
SPOKESMAN TO GENERAL IBB Says “Haliru Sani’s Statements Are Effusions of
A Deluded Mind”
The Ibrahim Bab*ngida camp has at
last offered a response to the allegation of sponsorship of the Boko
Haram sect levelled against the former military President. A statement
issued by General Bab-ngida’s Media Spokesman denied any links with Sani
Haliru, the repented Boko Haram member.
The statement raeds inter alia “We
feel a deep sense of concern that the country is going through these
obvious challenges of insecurity and bad leadership that are threatening
the very fabric of the country’s foundation. We have read and
assimilated the effusions of a deluded mind by name Sheik Sani Haliru,
who for want of very cheap relevance decided to mention the highly
respected name of IBB as one of the “sponsors” of what he called Boko
Haram. From our first reading, we felt it would amount to giving undue relevance to a confused mind if we
volunteer a response, but for our teeming supporters, associates and
friends of IBB, and for the price we owe history, we decided to offer
this disclaimer.
First, General IBB cannot in his
frame of mind remember any of such names called Sheik Sani Haliru
whether as an Almajiri or a jihadist or both. Reading through the
interview, one is easily confronted with a number of inconsistencies and
well orchestrated conclusions that are spuriously out of place. One,
Dele Giwa did not die of suicide bombing as claimed by Sani Haliru. It
is public knowledge that he died of parcel bomb and the latest insight
by Rev.Chris Omeben as published in Sunday Sun of 5th February, 2012
will form an instructive reading.
Secondly, we have every cause to believe that the interview was carefully scripted to convey the message intended and not one conducted under a question and answer basis.
Secondly, we have every cause to believe that the interview was carefully scripted to convey the message intended and not one conducted under a question and answer basis.
The responses of the said Sani
Haliru attest to this fact. From that premise therefore, it will be save
to conclude that the interview was structured by certain agents of
government to satisfy pre-determined position.
Thirdly, the questions by the interviewer are also leading questions, tending to achieve the predetermined end of the initiators of the interview. The emphasis on seeing Islam as a religion of violence is a clear indication of this motive.
Fourthly, on the one hand, the interviewee declared himself to be a converted Christian, while on the other hand, he was asking for someone that will connect him to God. He talked about his fear of going to jail, why will a man of God be afraid of incarceration or jail if the cause he is pursuing is truly altruistic? How could someone with facts about Boko Haram be saying that he is afraid the SSS will arrest him if he ventured those facts, when the whole wide world is patiently waiting to get a road map out of the Boko Haram pogrom? There are also instances where third person narrative tenor is given to Sheik Sani Haliru, thus making the whole exercise curiously misleading and utterly unconscionable to warrant any serious recognition.
Thirdly, the questions by the interviewer are also leading questions, tending to achieve the predetermined end of the initiators of the interview. The emphasis on seeing Islam as a religion of violence is a clear indication of this motive.
Fourthly, on the one hand, the interviewee declared himself to be a converted Christian, while on the other hand, he was asking for someone that will connect him to God. He talked about his fear of going to jail, why will a man of God be afraid of incarceration or jail if the cause he is pursuing is truly altruistic? How could someone with facts about Boko Haram be saying that he is afraid the SSS will arrest him if he ventured those facts, when the whole wide world is patiently waiting to get a road map out of the Boko Haram pogrom? There are also instances where third person narrative tenor is given to Sheik Sani Haliru, thus making the whole exercise curiously misleading and utterly unconscionable to warrant any serious recognition.
In all of these, so many
conjectures, hearsays, deductions, impressions and lies were bandied in
the said interview thus making the entire contents suspect. For example,
his reference to the October 1st bombing in Abuja is totally at
variance with what the State Security Service has unravelled about the
masterminds of that dastardly incident. We are therefore at sea to
reconcile any of the claims as truly reflective of any sound mind save
that we have every reason to believe that this is purely a well-scripted
interview to give our revered IBB a bad name. What the real motive of
the interview is remains to us very worrisome because we cannot in any
way rationalize the immediate or remote intentions of the interviewee
and the interviewer.
For purposes of record, General IBB
wishes to disclaim whoever that might have granted such interview and
wish to emphatically state that there is no iota of truth in whatever
the interviewee must have put down. There is no connection whatsoever
between himself and the so-called Sheik Sani Haliru. It will serve good
purpose if the said Sani Haliru could disclose his age in 1985, 1987 and
1992, because his claim of 44 years of Boko Haram activities could be
self-contradicting if we are able to know his real age. 1985 till date
is a record 27 years.
By the time we subtract that age
from 44 , the guess is as good as mine. One couldn’t possibly know what
feat a 17 years old boy would perform in 1985 to warrant any linkage
with IBB. It will also be of good use if he could disclose the instances
where IBB is directly and indirectly connected or linked to his
activities, how much money he was given, who gave the money and what
period of time?
The uncomplimentary adjectives he
used to describe General IBB further expose the underpinning lies in the
interview. Every Nigerian that has had opportunity of interacting with
this great Nigerian called IBB from North to South, East to West, would
concede to the bare-faced fact that General IBB is generally a likeable
person, generous, kind and very hearty personality whose contributions
to national development and unity of Nigeria remain unparalleled in the
history of Nigeria. For such a leader who has put his all in the
development and unity of the country to now get involved in such heinous
activities as described by the so-called Sani Haliru stands logic on
its head.
All the insinuations as to the
deliberate effort of IBB trying to Islamise Nigeria are clear
indications that Sani Haliru is suffering from self-delusion. Perhaps,
he did not realize the fact that IBB’s Vice-Presidents and some of his
key players in his cabinet were Christians. He also might have forgotten
that it was in the same regime that our broken diplomatic ties with
Israel were restored to allow Nigerians embark on Holy Pilgrimage to
Jerusalem. If we are to follow all the writings in the Bible, and
interpret them likewise, one will be tempted to say that the Bible is
preaching violence too. But the word of God cannot be interpreted on its
face value; hence men should be wary about drawing conclusions that are
informed by their limited understanding of the word of God.
We therefore wish to inform the
public to disregard and ignore whoever might be the face behind that
name called Sheik Sani Haliru and the message of doom that he seems
desperate to propagate. We wish to assure our teeming members’
world-wide that as elder statesman, General IBB will not desist from
offering his plausible contributions to national discourse and that no
amount of blackmail can take that leadership away from this great icon.
The unity and peaceful co-existence of Nigeria is very dear to General
IBB and having fought in the 30months civil war of the late sixties, he
would do everything humanly possible to avert any descent to anarchy in
our fatherland.
We challenge both the interviewee
and interviewer to disclose the documents they claim to have to prove us
wrong, otherwise, they should keep their mouths shut forever.”
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