Senator Ali Ndume representing Borno South Senatorial
District at the Nigerian Senate has reportedly been tied with funding the
Islamic terror sect, Boko Haram.
The role allegedly played by Senator Ndume in the death of
Major Timothy Fambiya, who led the operation that led to the death of the
leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, has also been brought to light.
Ndume is currently standing trial at an Abuja High Court
over links with the infamous terrorist sect. He is accused of providing phone
numbers of some government officials to the members of the Islamic sect.
The Nigerian Airforce in Borno State recently bombed Senator
Ndume’s convoy of vehicles on his way to his village on suspicion that he was
attending a meeting with the insurgents.
Acording to reports from PointBlankNews, the senator was
angered by the deployment of Major Timothy Fambiya, an indigene of Gwoza in
Gwoza Local Government Council of Borno State to eradicate the sect members and
halt their activities in the area. The area falls within Senator Ndume’s
Senatorial District and is predominantly Christian.
Ndume, who happens to be a Muslim, could not come to terms
with a Christian soldier routing a sect he sympathizes with. He believes a
Christian soldier sent to lead the Government forces against the sect is war
against Muslims.
There are many accounts of the circumstances surrounding
Shekau’s death, but he is believed to have been killed in Gwoza Hills by a
contingent of Special Forces led by Major A.T. Fambiya. Fambiya is reckoned to
be one of the best Special Forces officers in the Nigerian military, which grew
up in Gwoza and understood the rocky terrain.
Further
investigations revealed that it was Major Fambiya that delivered the fatal shot
that sent Shakau reeling in Gwoza Hills during a fierce battle but the Boko
Haram leader did not die immediately. He was severally moved to Mali and later
Cameroon where he gave up the ghost. His aides, who sought to create the
impression that he was still alive to sect members, hurriedly buried him.
Following Shekau’s
death, an infuriated Senator Ndume had allegedly contracted the second in
command to Major Fambiya, Captain Ibrahim Jamare, to eliminate him. Captain
Jamare, who had briefed the Senator on the circumstances surrounding Shakau’s shooting,
was allegedly paid N60 million by the Senator to eliminate the major.
While on a return
mission to Gwoza Hills still in search of Shekau, Captain Jamare had shot Major
Fambiya at the back of the head while he was observing something with
binoculars.
The military had in
a brief ceremony at the Nigerian Military Cemetary in Abuja declared that Major
Fambiya was one of the best Special Forces officers in Nigeria. “He was killed
in action on June 26, 2013 in a fierce encounter with Boko Haram terrorists”.
The Major’s suspicious killing had prompted his brother Iliya Joshua to call on military authorities to investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.
The Major’s suspicious killing had prompted his brother Iliya Joshua to call on military authorities to investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.
“We call on the
Federal Government to investigate the rumored cause of the death of the
officers since it remains a mystery to our family. I made the call because he
was supposed to be at the Army school of artillery. The last time I called him,
he said that he was not part of those people that were going to Maiduguri for
this operation. But later, I was told that he had been killed. He was not
supposed to be on posting to that place, “he said.
Over 400 hundred
people including women and children were killed last month in Ngoshe and
Atagara by insurgents, who hoisted a flag at the Gwoza Local Government Area.
The insurgents disguised as soldiers had called the residents to come out to
discuss peaceful co-existence in the area. Unknown to the residents, they were surrounded
by the insurgents, who opened fire on them killing all that gathered at the
village square, who were mostly Christians.
The burning of
residential houses, churches and schools have continued until a recent
deployment of soldiers in the area.
Purchase of 400 Golf
Cars Security
agencies are also working on the lead that Senator Ndume had purchased 400 Golf
cars for insurgents disguised as empowerment for his constituents. Golf cars
have been used in several bomb explosions in Maiduguri, Yobe, Bauchi, Gombe and
Abuja.
Further
investigations revealed that insurgents and new recruits were offered a golf
car or N500,000.00 to procure the vehicles themselves by the senator. The
recruitment drive is disguised as one of his constituency empowerment projects.
Most of the
insurgents are said to have migrated to Abuja and are now domiciled in Waru and
Wasa villages, some kilometres from the National Assembly Quarters where they
wait to be called upon to carry out car/suicide bombings.
National Cordinator of the Joint Information
Centre on Security, Mike Omeri, had at Wednesday’s briefing of the media on
government’s fight against terrorism said government was investigating some
politicians following their links with terrorists. He said some of the
politicians have been arrested.
He said the
development followed information provided by insurgents in custody. He
maintained that government would not condone involvement of politicians in
security matters involving the nation.
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