El-Rufai Is Boko Haram’s Executive Commander – Ihejirika

Former Chief of Army Staff, General Onyeabor Azubuike Ihejirika on Thursday opened a can of worms by declaring that the former minister of the Federal Capital Territory and APC Chieftain, Mallam Nasir El-Rufia is one of the frontline Commanders of the Boko Haram terrorist group.

Speaking with Vanguard over allegation by the former minister that he (Ihejirika) and former Governor Modu Sheriff of Borno State were fingered as terrorists sponsors, General Ihejirika said he is not surprised that this unimaginable allegation is coming from ‘one of the Boko Haram Commanders’.

“The (Commanders) including El-Rufai know where the problem is. He should stop deceiving Nigerians by trying to divert attention”.

According to Ihejirika, “When the Boko Haram operation started, supporters of the sect like El-Rufai said that there was nothing like Boko Haram and that the army was just killing innocent youths”. “If you also remember, not too long ago, some of their supporters including El-Rufai said that I was re-inventing the killing of the Ibos during the Biafra war following government’s determination to rid the country of terrorism.

Ihejirika who was obviously angry while speaking on phone, also said, “The likes of El-Rufai started the campaign of human right abuses, in order to divert the international attention of the heinous crime being committed by the Boko Haram terrorists”.

Gen. Ihejirika then recalled recent allegations against his person indicating that that he took away N48 billion, an amount of money which is still in the coffers of the Ministry of Defence, which can be verified by anybody adding that he was not surprised that these allegation is coming from the likes of El-Rufai who started the campaign.

Continuing the former Army Chief said, “The likes of El-Rufai have been supporting Boko Haram. In fact, El-Rufai and his likes are the same group of people that ensured the army did not to get the requested equipment to deal with this menace once and for all, as they used their cohorts to tell the government that procuring modern equipment were not necessary”.

Recalling that the same El-Rufai went to a Newspaper premises to grant interview to condemn security forces for the efforts at ridding the country of these senseless mayhem by the terrorists, Ihejirika said, “At the onset of this crisis, I was the first person to declare that the country was at war but group of sponsors led by El-Rufai disagreed, that it was not true”.“It is the same group of El-Rufai that started the human right abuses campaign. It was done in order to block any international assistance after the state of emergency was declared and the sect was initially tamed. That gave Boko Haram time and respite to build up again”.

Furthermore, General Ihejirika said that when the United States was to initially declare Boko Haram a terrorist organization, the same El-Rufai and his group mounted pressure on the international community, using alleged human right abuses as campaign strategy.

The former Army Chief revealed that this same group including El-Rufai have taken further steps in support of Boko Haram, “which I cannot disclose for now”.

It will be recalled that shortly after his tenure came to an end as COAS, some Northern political elites started the crusade for General Azubuike Ihejirika to be summoned before the International criminal Court in the Hague claiming that he killed their sons and daughters innocently whereas it is on record that no other military leader but Ihejirika did a lot in helping the nation contain the rapid spread of Boko Haram insurgency in the country.

He not only established the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army with headquarters in Maiduguri, he established new Army Brigades, Counter Terrorism Schools in Kachia and Jaji as well as the Terrorism Training School.

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Posted: at 28-08-2014 09:55 PM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Hmmm, we all know he(el rufai) buhari, IBB, atiku, ETC is the arrow head of boko haram, but the question on everyone's lip is... What is president jonathan doing about them? Will he watch them to destroy his government?

Posted: at 28-08-2014 10:14 PM (10 years ago) | Hero

paint of garri is how much now??

Posted: at 28-08-2014 10:33 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming

the question is ,...why is he watching them destroy Nigeria?

Posted: at 28-08-2014 10:39 PM (10 years ago) | Hero

boko haram is north, and north is boko haram, we know that wella, una go know weda jona be mumu or not after ehn win 2015 finish and have nothing to loose again, make una get ready for the worst, boko and sponsors will be wiped off after election

Posted: at 28-08-2014 10:46 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming

no blame that guy with kpomo lips wey no sabi English

Posted: at 28-08-2014 11:20 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming

Hmmm, naija which way

Posted: at 28-08-2014 11:34 PM (10 years ago) | Hero

 ::)does life remain in the north only/ left to me all army oficers should be retired because they are not working for the interest of the land or the people. the senior one should go or get killed for selling the jeniour ones mr president do not have advicers only ambition killers.

Posted: at 29-08-2014 12:39 AM (10 years ago) | Newbie

Make breeze de blow so that fowl nash go dey open small small

Posted: at 29-08-2014 12:57 AM (10 years ago) | Newbie

afraid of a roach? u must be high on cheap stuff mano. ur likes are the reason this so called country remains far from progress because of either ignorance or senseless sentimentality point of view, no disrespect though. that man was an army chief whose gallant job was tagged genocide by northerners aren't u aware of that? the thing is that these fulani sojourners from God knows where have realized that they have lost monopoly of power so they switched to their plan b which is arab muslim expansionism. I only pity the native northerners they have enslaved, ran over and claimed their ancestral land. don't 4get they are descendants of uthman danfodio, trouble makers.

Posted: at 29-08-2014 01:57 AM (10 years ago) | Upcoming