How Nyanya blast suspect, Sodiq Ogwuche was radicalized in the UK

There was shocking revelation on Friday when it was gathered that the suspected mastermind of Nyanya bomb attacks in Nigeria, Sadiq Aminu Ogwuche was radicalised in Welsh University Glamorgan, United Kingdom.

According to Independent UK, Ogwuche is believed to have led a double life in the UK as an aspiring businessman while preparing to die in the name of Allah.

Ogwuche, who allegedly called himself the “Lion of God” and wrote increasingly extreme posts on social media during his later years in Britain, was arrested in Sudan this week on suspicion of organising the double blast.

Experts warned that his case could signal the start of a new wave of British-Nigerian extremists travelling to fight for Boko Haram.

Former classmates in Wales expressed surprises that Ogwuche had been alleged to be a terrorist mastermind after having spent three years studying for a degree in business science at the University of Glamorgan – now the University of South Wales – from 2007 to 2010.

Ogwuche told fellow students that he used to be in the military back “home” in Nigeria and that his goal was to become a successful businessman. However, he failed to finish the course.

A former housemate told Wales Online that he was a serious Muslim who showed no signs of potential violent extremism. Anju Moro said: “He was very devout but then many people are. He would often just spend time in his room between going to and from prayers but he seemed harmless, if very serious. It is very creepy that he could have been having thoughts like that.”

During his time in Britain in 2010, his Facebook pages included comments expressing his willingness to die. The following year comments on his page read: “The only punishment for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is that they should be murdered, or crucified, or their hands and their feet should be cut off, or they should be imprisoned.”

A spokeswoman for the University of South Wales said that there was “no evidence of any radical behaviour” while he was at the university.

“The university has a strong community ethos with no history or evidence of extremist behaviour across any of its campuses so it is surprised to hear of his apparent involvement with terrorist group Boko Haram,” it said in a statement. “There were no reported indications of extremist behaviour during his time as a student. There has been no contact between Ogwuche and the university following his departure in 2010.”

“It’s a surprise that it took this long really,” said Robin Simcox, of the Henry Jackson Society.’

Posted: at 18-05-2014 01:46 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

them never even form biafra them don already get already made boko haram waiting them.ni wetin i go call tis one self ? maybe BIAFRA HARAM       

Posted: at 18-05-2014 02:05 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

School in the Uk came back to Nigeria and was brain washed that's all it to become a terrorist.

Posted: at 18-05-2014 02:27 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

West Africa leaders vow to wage 'total war' on Boko Haram

West African leaders on Saturday agreed to work together to wage "total war" on Boko Haram saying the Nigerian Islamist group had become a regional al Qaeda that threatened all of them.

Nigeria's neighbors Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin, and Western officials, met in Paris to flesh out a plan enabling them for the first time to share intelligence, coordinate action and monitor borders.

Although Boko Haram has been fighting for five years, carrying out bombings and attacks on civilians and the security forces, the kidnapping last month of more than 200 girls from a school in the northeast has focused world attention on them.

"Boko Haram is no longer a local terrorist group, it is operating clearly as an al Qaeda operation, it is an al Qaeda of West Africa," Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan told a news conference in Paris following the meeting.

"We have shown our commitment for a regional approach. Without West African countries coming together we will not be able to crush these terrorists," he said.

Outrage over the mass abduction has prompted Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan - criticized at home and abroad for his government's slow response - to accept U.S., British and French intelligence help in the hunt for the girls.

British Foreign Minister William Hague, speaking before the start of a meeting, said the Nigerian military was not organized in a way to deal effectively with the group, and offered military advisers to help structure them.

"There is determination to tackle this situation head on ... to launch a war, a total war on Boko Haram," Chad's President Idriss Deby said.

The countries agreed to launch coordinated patrols and rescue operations, share intelligence, put in place a mechanism to prevent weapons' smuggling and monitor borders.

Intelligence services and army heads would also meet soon to come up with a region-wide strategy to fight terrorism.

"The threat is serious and dangerous for the region, Africa and Europe," French President Francois Hollande said, although no concrete operational measures were announced.

SPREADING INSTABILITY
With 6,000 French troops operating in either Mali to the northwest or the Central African Republic to the east, Paris has an interest in preventing a deterioration in Nigeria's security.

Like its Western allies, Paris has ruled out any military operation saying it was primarily for Nigeria to take the lead, although Hollande said Rafale fighter jets based in the Chadian capital N'Djamena - just 60 km from the Nigerian border - would be used for reconnaissance missions.

Paris fears Boko Haram could spread north into the Sahel and beyond Cameroon into the Central African Republic. Boko Haram has already targeted French interests in Nigeria, kidnapping a French family in northern Cameroon last year.

Suspected Boko Haram rebels also attacked a Chinese work site in northern Cameroon on Friday, killing at least one Cameroonian soldier, and at least 10 people are believed to have been kidnapped, the regional governor said.

"We have affirmed our solidarity and determination to vigorously fight Boko Haram," Cameroon President Paul Biya said. "They have committed one more attack, attacked businessmen and this comes after the French hostages were kidnapped. As we speak we are searching for an Italian priest and a Canadian nun. The problem has become regional, if not a Western problem."

The group has killed more than 3,000 people in its war to establish an Islamic state in mostly Muslim northeast Nigeria.

Biya said he would send more means and troops to the north, but that Boko Haram had been picking soft targets and outnumbering his troops.

Nigeria has complained the far north of Cameroon is being used by Boko Haram militants to shelter from a Nigerian military offensive and to transport weapons, and has urged Cameroon to tighten border security.

Jonathan said there was a "misconception" in the relation between the two countries over crossing each others borders and that this would now be ironed out.

"The main outcome is that the region is now aware of a problem that for a long time was considered an internal Nigerian problem. Abuja has accepted to go beyond its borders," a Western diplomatic source said.

Highlighting that, the source said Nigeria, which sits on the 15-member U.N. Security Council, had agreed in principle to ask for Boko Haram and its key members to be placed on a U.N. sanctions list, as has been the case with other militant groups such as al Qaeda.

"The world is aware of these young school girls who were abducted, but quite frankly Boko Haram has been creating havoc for sometime," U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman told Reuters.

"We are all coordinated, we are all focused, this doesn't stop at borders, terrorism does not know borders and so we're going to work in a collective manner to get the job done."

Posted: at 18-05-2014 02:49 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

This people can be brain washed....2 kill innocent soul bc of their so calld alah..

Posted: at 18-05-2014 04:02 AM (9 years ago) | Hero

All these bombers who born them??

 

Posted: at 18-05-2014 06:09 AM (9 years ago) | Hero

He calls himself "lion of god", I'm sure its not the God that I know he's talking about bcos mere mortals don't fight 4 my immortal God. They fight 4 the devil their father who has legs & hands but can't use them. My God is a God of war that fights His own battles. I'll suggest the authority get the informatn they want 4rm this bastard & sentence him 2 death by hanging.

Posted: at 18-05-2014 06:43 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Posted: at 18-05-2014 07:39 AM (9 years ago) | Hero

All these mumu tribalistic half wits don start to write nonsense here again. The news say the guy na Benue. News una no go read. Na dem say dem say naim una sabi. Yeye people.

Posted: at 18-05-2014 08:09 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming

Isnt he from benue state any more??how does that name sound like an igbo name,well i trust my igbo brothers,they love money too much to die for any mumu person

Posted: at 18-05-2014 08:53 AM (9 years ago) | Newbie