Boko Haram Commander Kabiru Sokoto Charged To Court In Nigeria
Nigerian authorities charged a man on Friday with masterminding a 2011 Christmas Day bomb attack on a Catholic church in the capital that ki...
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Nigerian authorities charged a man on Friday with masterminding a 2011 Christmas Day bomb attack on a Catholic church in the capital that killed 37 people.
Security forces captured Kabiru Sokoto, the main suspect in the attack, in January 2012. He escaped a day later but was recaptured the following month.
In court on Friday he pleaded not guilty to charges of terrorism. Justice Adeniyi Ademola adjourned trial to May 2.
Islamist militant group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the bombing of St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, on the outskirts of Abuja, which killed 37 people and wounded 57, in the deadliest of a series of attacks at Christmas.
The coordinated nature of the attacks suggested links between the home-grown Islamist movement and global jihadist groups operating across the Sahara.
Boko Haram, which in the Hausa language of largely Muslim northern Nigeria means "Western education is sinful," is loosely modelled on the Taliban movement in Afghanistan.
Its fighters want an Islamic caliphate in Nigeria, a country of 170 million split roughly evenly between Christians and Muslims. Its favourite targets are the police, politicians and Christians.
The group, or someone claiming to represent it, took responsibility for kidnapping a French family of seven in February, who French and Cameroonian authorities on Friday said had been released.
In court on Friday he pleaded not guilty to charges of terrorism. Justice Adeniyi Ademola adjourned trial to May 2.
Islamist militant group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the bombing of St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, on the outskirts of Abuja, which killed 37 people and wounded 57, in the deadliest of a series of attacks at Christmas.
The coordinated nature of the attacks suggested links between the home-grown Islamist movement and global jihadist groups operating across the Sahara.
Boko Haram, which in the Hausa language of largely Muslim northern Nigeria means "Western education is sinful," is loosely modelled on the Taliban movement in Afghanistan.
Its fighters want an Islamic caliphate in Nigeria, a country of 170 million split roughly evenly between Christians and Muslims. Its favourite targets are the police, politicians and Christians.
The group, or someone claiming to represent it, took responsibility for kidnapping a French family of seven in February, who French and Cameroonian authorities on Friday said had been released.
this evil and satanist looking man should be burnt, though bit by bit from his toes so as to feel the same heat of been inside the numerous fire they/he has been setting other inocent people in via there numerous bombings.
ReplyDeleteMy follo Nigeria all i want to say is that we can not be looking like fools in the hand of so called Boko Haram, so this is the time we will know if Nigeria have a good Security forces because Boko Haram have kill a lot of pepole so the Nigeria forces have to stop them now, and all we have to do so that the Nigeria forces caned captured all the Boko Haram men is to give information to the Nigeria forces if they see or hear where the Boko Haram men is hideing thanks.
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