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Original Post Date: 2011-07-23 Time: 14:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
By Austin Atibile
A local weekly newspaper of July 19-25, 2011 had claimed that the royal father had been on exile, alleging that the royal father is now in Kaduna as a result of the insecurity in the state.
But the Borno Emirate Council had faulted the report as false and malicious in a statement signed by the council’s secretary, Alhaji Zannah Laisu and made available to our correspondent yesterday. The council stated that it would have avoided joining issues with the said publication, but was compelled to respond to what it described as lies, malicious and calculated attempt by the unnamed reporter who wanted to gain cheap popularity for his selfish interest at the expense of the Shehu’s hard earned respect and reputation among his subjects.
The emirate insisted that the royal father was never on exile in Kaduna , but that he was in Abuja and Kaduna between June 16 and 19, 2011 to attend a meeting of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs and Nigeria Hajj Commission as part of preparation for the 2011 Hajj operation.
The statement added that since the Boko Haram insurgency in the state, the royal father has been in Maiduguri finding solution through relentless prayers and making wide consultations on the security challenges. The statement reads in part, “The council did not know where the unnamed reporter obtained his information. I want the general public to know that the Shehu will never and had never contemplated leaving his subjects or domain to go on exile whether in times of peace or crises”.
The statement also stated that, the Shehu of Borno would be the last person to leave Borno on exile, and urged the general public to disregard such incorrect, malicious and provocative allegations aimed at tarnishing the image of the monarch.
The royal father also urged members of the public to continue to pray for peace and unity to prevail among the diverse ethnic and religious groups in the state.
Meanwhile, a suspected member of the Boko Haram sect was shot dead in Maiduguri yesterday during a gun battle with members of the Military Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO).
Confirming the development to journalists, the spokes person of the JTF, Lt-Col Hassan Mohammed said the whole thing stared with a bomb blast close to where our troops were stationed in Gwange in the evening. “‘But while our men were observing the scene, some suspected Boko Haram militants began rapid firing at them.
Mohammed added that the JTF returned the fire and engaged the group in a gun duel that lasted for several minutes.
He said, we were able to get one of the militants after a long crossfire, but other members of the group summoned courage and took his body away. “Sadly, a civilian was injured during the crossfire.
He also claimed that the injured civilian had been admitted at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) for treatment.
“I want to state categorically that no member of the JTF was affected either by the blast or the gun duel that followed the incident.
Meanwhile, the former Head of defunct Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan has urged the Federal Government to institute a mechanism for dialogue with members of Boko Haram sect.
Speaking at the 20th anniversary of the call to Inner Bar of a legal luminary, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), Shonekan said the spate of violence being unleashed on the country would abate when government engaged the sect in meaningful dialogue.
Shonekan, who spoke as the chairman of occasion, was joined by other eminent personalities, including the Speaker of House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, Governors Babatunde Raji Fashola (Lagos), Adams Oshiomhole (Edo) Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Theodore Orji (Abia), to extol the virtues of Olanipekun.
Others that attended the occasion include the representatives of governors of Sokoto, Nasarawa and Benue, former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Alfa Belgore, President, of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Joseph Daudu (SAN) and Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Ghana, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro.
Also, former Lagos State Governor, Senator Bola Tinubu as well as the Alaafin of Oyo,ObaLamidi Adeyemi, III came with other traditional rulers such as the Deji of Akure, Oba Adebiyi Adesida to add colour to the event.
According to the former leader, government should also use the same platform used in resolving the Niger Delta crisis to solve the problem of the Boko Haram, saying the country needed prayers at this time.
He said “I think what we should to try as much as possible to look for the members of Boko Haram, to see what is bothering them, what is agitating their minds. We need to talk to them to know what they want.
“We need prayers at this time, everybody, all Nigerians must pray for the country so that it (Nigeria) can overcome the problems plaguing it” he said.
Also, barely four days after the Boko Haram scare at the NYSC camp in Zang commercial secondary school in Bukuru Jos South Local Government Council of the state, the administrative block of the University of Jos was deserted yesterday morning over a bomb scare around the vice chancellor’s office.
An official of the admin block, who pleaded anonymity, told LEADERSHIP WEEKEND that he saw a strange man coming out of the admin block and wondered when the man came, he added that the strange man did not look like any of the workers or students. We then went towards the direction of office he was coming from to find out if such person came there but we found out the suspect was not known as staff or student.
He said, “we became afraid because before we came back outside to ask the man his mission there he was nowhere to be found, the man quickly disappeared into thin air. This development scared all the staff of admin and we had to vacate the offices suspecting that the suspect must have dropped some explosives.”
The university authorities had to make distress call to the police just as the state command responded promptly by sending their anti-bomb squad to the school.
Confirming the incident, the command Public Relations Officer, Apev Jacob, told leADERSHIP WEEKEND that the anti-bomb squad went in immediately and they combed the area but found nothing harmful, saying that the anti- bomb squad then encouraged the staff to go back to their respective offices.
Original date published: 23 July 2011
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201107230005.html?viewall=1