"Our Plan was to Islamise NIGERIA" - Abu Qaqa and Kabiru Sokoto

     Further revelations emerged Wednesday from the interrogation room of the State Security Service (SSS) when the two principal suspects of the Boko Haram, Abu Qaqa, who was the spokesman of the group, and his recaptured colleague, Kabiru Sokoto, gave insights into why the group attacked Muslims, Churches and schools.

The revelation also came on the heels of another attack by suspected gunmen believed to be members of the sect in Borno State, on a police station and local government secretariat, killing four persons in the process.

But Qaqa and Sokoto, THISDAY gathered, have been corroborating each other in the information given out to their interrogators. They stressed that the main target of the group was to Islamise Nigeria. Sokoto was believed to have masterminded the 2011 Christmas Day bombing of St. Theresa's Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger State.

"We had a grand plan to Islamise Nigeria rightly starting with the North. We felt that a lot of Muslims were not practicing the religion faithfully as they should. Part of the plan was to reduce the powers of the Sultan to traditional rulership functions only while all religious authority would be vested with our leader (to be based in Yobe). We believed there were so many things wrong with the present arrangement of combining tradition with religion," they stated.

Contrary to the view that the group attacked Churches and schools out of provocation, they said indeed attacking churches had been part of the original strategy of the group.

"The plans to attack churches and schools were not a reaction to any provocation. The plans had been there. You know why the churches had to go. Those schools for instance were not teaching the children according to ways of our faith. These were part of our initial plans of allowing only Islamic schools and wiping away the so-called secular schools. Though a lot of us who had gone to school saw this approach as too rigid since we could use the medium to propagate the faith faster, we were few and equally scared of being labelled traitors to face the ultimate consequence. We wanted to reform the schools to conform to our practice.

"On the traditional institution, any ruler that would have obstructed our plans would have regretted his action," they stressed.

Thank God It was, and not is because it can not be possible anymore.



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Posted: at 8-03-2012 09:46 AM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac

A lot of moslem were not practicing it faithfully ..........................................................., is that caused by christians?  A lot of Christians too are not practicing faithfully, did the xtians make like unbearable for you guys?  hmmmmm rearing of malu has made almost all of them to think like malu.  oga ooo

Posted: at 8-03-2012 10:35 AM (13 years ago) | Hero

U kn it won't be dat easy or possible. D worst dat can happen is to break up. Thank GOD d yoruba muslim does nt agree wit ur stupid logic and idea.

Posted: at 8-03-2012 11:25 AM (13 years ago) | Addicted Hero

 

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Posted: at 8-03-2012 12:05 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac

This is why I always generalise them. If 80% of a group have d same frame of mind, doesn't dat speak for the whole people practicing such religion? dey all think and act the same way. Islam na by force?

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Posted: at 8-03-2012 12:17 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac