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The Tribal Killing Of Boko Haram Leader...It’s Extra-judicial, Barbaric – Sheikh Khalid
6 August 2009
The killing of Boko Haram leader in Maiduguri recently by the police was not only extra-judicial killing but barbaric, the Chief Imam of Fibre Mosque in Jos Sheik Khalid Aliyu Abubakar has said. He stated this in an interview with our correspondents yesterday in Jos. According to him, the killing of not only the leader but other members of the sect is an extra judicial act. “We are in a democratic society today whose emblem is the rule of law, I think these people need to be listened to, what is their opinion, what do they mean by Boko Haram, but the government only gave an order to crush them, this is similar to what happened in Jos”, he said. According to Sheikh Abubakar, “The military spokesperson said the Boko Haram leader was not in physical combat with them, he was caught while he was in hiding and in terms of killing, the soldiers have more dangerous weapons than the police but they handed him over for the process of the law to take its course, but he was shot dead”. Sheik Abubakar further stated that what the Boko Haram members did was not in the same magnitude to what OPC, Bakkasi Boys and the Niger Delta militants did, asking, “Why is this one taking a different dimension?” He therefore opined that the Borno State Commissioner of Police, the DPO in the area as well as the Inspector General of Police have a case to answer. He also stated, “This is beginning to call for a serious concern from Nigerians, those in authority cannot just use the security apparatus to just go and kill people, a due process of law has to be followed”. He however decried the activities of the sect, saying, “The step taken by the sect calls for a serious concern, their stand is lamentable and from the point of view of Islam, nobody has the legal authority to come up with something except the giver of the law or based on the interpretation of the Qur’an, hadith or the jurisprudence of the Muslim scholars”. Similarly, in a telephone interview, Ustaz Ahmad Tijjani Ganan Daaji said “Since he was caught alive the best institution that could proved that he was a rebel under the Islamic law is the court, after he was proven guilty, then the court would sentence him to death”. He said. He therefore appealed to Muslim Ummah always follow genuine Islamic scholars in order to avoid being misled. Muslim lawyers condemn police over extrajudicial killings The Muslim Lawyers’ Association of Nigeria (MULAN) has condemned the Nigerian Police over extra judicial killings of suspected leaders of the Boko Haram sect that clashed with security forces in some parts of the North recently. MULAN National President Adekola Mustapha said in a statement that “The Nigerian Police has once again exhibited their incompetence and lack of professionalism when it mattered most.” He frowned at the unlawful killing of Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf and suspected sponsor of the sect Alhaji Buji Foi. “It is unfortunate that the Nigerian Police has once again foreclosed a golden opportunity to ascertain the truth and unveil the people behind the sect to be able to know how to permanently avoid it,” the association said. Mustapha accused the Borno State Police Commissioner of complacency in the extra judicial killings, saying the police made up various versions of the story to justify the killings. MULAN said the police chief should resign his appointment because “the commissioner of police has not demonstrated any serious understanding of the responsibility placed on him.” The association warned the police against indiscriminate arrest of Muslims saying MULAN will “stand up against injustice being meted out to innocent Muslims.” The association also called on its members to provide legal support to all innocent Muslims arrested or killed in the wake of the crisis and urged northern governors to provide assistance to dependants of victims of the crisis.
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