Boko Haram kills Obasanjo’s host

A dramatic and dangerous dimension was yesterday introduced into the Boko Haram saga as brother-in-law to Mohammed Yusuf, the slain leader of the Islamic fundamentalist sect, Babakura Alhaji Fugu, who received ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo during his private visit to Maiduguri last Thursday, was killed by unknown gunmen.

Sunday Sun gathered that the 45-year-old Fugu was killed about 1.30 pm by gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members.

Sources said the gunmen stormed the home of the Fugus located along the Railway Road, adjacent the sect’s enclave, and fired some shots in the presence of few family members and fled immediately.
Spokesman to the Joint Task Force (JTF), Lt Colonel Hassan Ifijeh Mohammed, confirmed the killing but said he could not give detail.
“I have heard it like every other person but I have not got official report. So I cannot give you any detail,” he told Sunday Sun.

Babakura, who was head of the Fugu family, had dragged the Borno State government, the Attorney General of the Federation and the Inspector-General of Police before the court over the alleged extra-judicial killing of his 70-year-old father, Alhaji Fugu Mohammed, the father-in-law to Mohammed Yusuf during the July 2009 Boko Haram insurgence.

Posted: at 18-09-2011 05:55 AM (13 years ago) | Upcoming

what was his offence now?why don,t they go after the obasanjo himself?

Posted: at 18-09-2011 12:42 PM (13 years ago) | Grande Master