Governor Akpabio's Free Education: A Political Gimmick!

The Godswill Akpabio administration in Akwa Ibom State promises to give pupils access to free and compulsory education from the primary school level to the first three years in secondary school. Beneficiaries can only enjoy the privilege if they are in public schools. And though many residents of the various communities that make up the state may enjoy the facility, residents of Uda in Mbo Local Government Area have said the scheme is only for some sections of the state if at all it ever exist.


Their grouse seems genuine: Uda, being the largest ethnic group with 31 villages, boasts of a population of about 280,000. However, there is no public school in the area. Consequently, their wards and children cannot take advantage of the government scheme.


And to keep the community schools going, the principals have been trying all the tricks in the books, including the reduction of school fees. As a result, the affected communities struggle to keep the schools afloat, with the attendant hardship on the stakeholders.


The principal of the Community Secondary School, Unyenge, Mr. Etim Ekpe, who decried the situation, said he did not understand the parameters the state government used for the location of public schools.

He said, “If the state government is actually sincere about the idea of free and compulsory education, it would have been paying public examination fees of all categories of pupils in public and private schools, especially in those areas where there are no government secondary schools.

“Since it is this administration’s policy to provide free and compulsory education for all residents of the state, it is expedient for the government to accommodate all the indigenes in the scheme of free and compulsory education. We do not even have subvention from the government, which would have made our pupils to have a sense of belonging.”



Also, in Ibaka, another community in Mbo LG, the Principal of the Community Secondary School, Mr. Victor Mkpeti, lamented the neglect of Uda by the state government.

He said the Community Secondary School had received little from the government in form of a four-classroom block, which was allegedly constructed through inter-ministerial direct labour project. According to him, the community deserved more.



He said, “We also received some desks from the government, but we have also made passionate appeal to the government to take over the school in Ibaka. Necessary inspections have been done and concluded, but we are yet to hear from the government.

“In terms of financial assistance, we have not received anything from the government. The parents and guardians of pupils in Uda communities are the ones paying for their children and wards’ examinations’ fees; the government does not pay exam fees for children in Uda communities.”

He added that many people from Uda communities did not know that there was free and compulsory education in the state.



Mkpeti said Ibaka Community Secondary School lost over 1,000 pupils to Enwang Comprehensive Secondary School because of the free education being enjoyed by pupils who attend the latter school.

This being the case, he said, “Our community might as well forget any hope of development; because without education, a community cannot thrive.”



He said if the government could take over the schools in Uda communities, there would be more patronage, more pupils, more teachers, more facilities and overall improved standard of education.



He noted that the financial hardship usually experienced by parents and guardians would reduce, as pupils
who were compelled to relocate to other communities where they rented accommodation, or spent money on transport fares to schools in Enyang, would now stay in their localities.



Mkpeti said the school’s authorities in Ibaka had tried as much as it could to keep the school fee at affordable level so that parents and guardians could afford it for their children.

“We are not public school; we are community secondary school operating like public school. We charge N3,000 per pupil per term as school fee. We need to keep the tuition at minimum so that many parents and guardians can afford them. If we increase the school fee, we may not see anybody here to teach.

“The policy has affected our own welfare because any amount we realise, we channel some to paying staff salaries, while the other is for the maintenance of the school. We seriously need government presence. These pupils are also a part of this state. You can’t empower some and leave the other. Government policy must be balanced,” he said.



The Vice-Principal, Community Secondary School, Unyenge, Mr. John Atte, revealed that both the completed and uncompleted classroom blocks in the school were built by the Universal Energy Resources Limited.



He said the greatest problem between the community and the company was the lack of Memorandum of Understanding. He noted that since the company had shied away from entering into the MOU with the community, it became difficult for both the community and the company to work as a unit to achieve meaningful development.



A teacher, also in the Community Secondary School, Unyenge, Mr. Lincoln Emmanson, said if the government had resolved not to take up any of the secondary schools in Uda, it should at least pay for the WAEC and NECO fees of students in those schools.



He said, “These people belong to Akwa Ibom State. Where will they go to enjoy their rights and privileges other than their own state? It is unbecoming of any government policy to favour only certain sections of the state and leave out others.”



Emmanson said when he visited other communities in Ibibio, Anang and other places; he noticed that places that were not up to a quarter of the size of Uda had between two and three public secondary schools.



An SS II student in the Community Secondary School, Ibaka, Master Okon Johnson, said the state government treated them as if they were not citizens of the state. He said whenever it was election time, the various aspirants would come to Uda communities; but once they got what they wanted, they left.

“This is the most deprived community in the entire state. We do not have roads, we do not have public secondary schools; even the primary schools we have in Uda communities, were built by missionaries. The only government presence is during election.”



Also in Afi Uda, the story is not different, as pupils are said to have deserted the community in search of free and compulsory education in other parts of the state.



For two weeks, our correspondent made attempts to speak with the Commissioner for Education, Dr. Nseabasi Akpan, but he was said to be unavailable. During a visit to his office in the Ministry of Education in Uyo, it was his Personal Assistant, one Mr. Peter (who refused to give his last name) that attended to our correspondent.



Peter said the commissioner would call our correspondent whenever he was able to. A fortnight after the encounter with Peter, the commissioner was yet to call; while several calls to his purported telephone line (as provided by Peter) indicated that it had been switched off.



In his response, the chairman of Mbo LGA, Mr. Okpo Ekere, said there was no reason to establish public secondary schools in Uda communities. He said pupils were free to attend schools in areas where there were public secondary schools.



He said, “Siting a school and attending the school is a matter of choice. I didn’t attend school close to my location. I sat down and took a decision as a young man and communicated that decision to my father that I would like to attend a school away from my home. I entered the school in my Common Entrance Examination form and wrote the exam. I went as far as northern Cross River State to go to school; whereas my parents were residing here in Oron.


“So, you will still have a lot of Uda sons and daughters who will prefer to go to school in Eket, Uda, or in Uyo. As this awareness is on the increase, the attendant effect will be that the host community may have a secondary school that people will not be willing to attend and so there will be no need for government or the private sector to invest within that environment.”
By:Dave Emma

VICTORIA AND THE NIGHTMARE OF AKWA IBOM ‘WITCH’ CHILDREN

Written By

Mecky I. Peters

pmeckfree@yahoo.com



My heart bleeds as I read the story of Victoria. How her own parents subjected her to midnight torture; when everywhere has been calmed, waking her up at night and burning her with candle to extract confession. This time not Victoria Climbie, but Victoria Akwa-Ibom. We reject our own for others to pick and make good use of as if our own ignorance is incurable. The story of Akwa Ibom Child Witch Story is an endless one of the levity with which the government subjected it to.



In Akwa Ibom State, it is very terrible situation while our government tries a lot to make a window dressing as if nothing bad is going on; and the very the church that causes this whole problem is trying to blame humanists and atheist groups for the very problem that they initiated in 1999, brainwashing people with films such as "END OF THE WICKED," "ESCAPE ROOT" and "The COVEN" And books like ''The Seat of Satan Exposed'' ''UNVEILING THE MYSTERY OF WITCHCRAFT'' written by Apostle Helen Ukpabio. The latter states, in part: “If a child under the age of two screams in the night, cries and is always feverish with deteriorating health he or she is a servant of Satan.” This is however a common phenomenon in the rustic Nigerian communities where malaria epidemic is nothing to write home about and given the avalanche of mosquitoes from pot holes, stench-emitting blocked gullies and garbage heaps



Years back, we witnessed how aged people were accused of witchcraft, causing unheard-of atrocity were abused, neglected or killed openly, (Remember Akpan Ekwong who led the killings of people in the early eighties?); no child was ever accused of being a witch. But after such films, music and pulpit theology laced with fear of witchcraft and how children have taken over the witch world, the fate of Akwa Ibom child changed for the worst. In every 2 children accused of witchcraft in Nigeria 1 is from Akwa Ibom. Outside Nigeria, in every 4 children accused of witchcraft, 1 is from Akwa Ibom State. But we continue to downplay on the magnitude of this problem and castigate those who dare to work or campaign to reverse this ugly and dangerous trend. Thank God that this very story is not written by an Akwa Ibom person otherwise they would have referred it to blackmailing AkwaIbom State government at the detriment of child



As I write this piece, inside my mind, I frown at Aniekan Umanah, the present Akwa Ibom State Information Commissioner, for lying to the world that no child has ever being harmed or hurt on account of witchcraft while children continue to face death penalty in churches and their family homes. As we walk the streets daily we see more and more children on the Street because the misinforming, sorry LIAR Commissioner of Orientation and Information has disoriented the people and not help to enlighten his society. I frown at him for not educating the people about the wicked brainwash of these vile and renegade churches.



Some journalists who had reported about the true child witch story to expose the atrocity of these churches and the parents, have been paid by Aniekan Umanah and the Liberty Gospel Church to write a reverse story. With time, I believe we will work with some human right lawyers to face his paid journalists for the monumental deceit. All is not yet Uhuru for them. Let them get paid and tell lies about the fate of children of Akwa Ibom origin. But I must strongly commend some of the journalists and right groups who stood their ground and refused to be paid with blood money to sacrifice our children. Those who see the truth and tell it the way it is; those who have refused to be bought to tell lies. I condemn in the strongest possible terms the News Watch magazine and The News for misleading the public with their paid job to belch cannon of lies about the right groups that work to rescue and protect these vulnerable children. Those who are here knows the truth and cannot be deceived



As I write now, one child is facing jungle justice out there for no crime he or she has committed. Her only crime is that she was born to an Akwa Ibom person, or perhaps in a poor family. The Akwa Ibom Child Fate is that of witch branding, stigmatisation, torture, abandonment, suffocation, trafficking, rituals and DEATH. The government has not done anything to enlighten the folk and religious groups on the superstitious belief of child witchcraft simply because most government officials believe that those children deserve such fate since they are guilty as charged. They pay much attention to buy the media to tell the world that those who campaign for stoppage of child stigmatization; torture and killing are doing so for pecuniary reason without offering an alternative.



Thank goodness, the federal government of Nigeria through Dr Idris Kuta, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development recently issued a statement acknowledging child witch palaver and made a strong condemnation on those stigmatised and torture children in the name of witchcraft.



I just read in media how the governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio is working with the state House of Assembly to gag the media with headlines such as “Gov Akpabio’s Akwa Ibom Assembly arrogating Power to Itself to Gag Journalists." “Akwa Ibom Govt moves to gag media over critical reporting of Governor Akpabio”



While I am yet to come to term with this, I will no doubt encourage government to pay attention to the myriads of problem that bedeviled the fate of stigmatised children and do more to curb the menace instead of wasting time establishing repulsive laws that will attract more criticism and cynicism. I agree that the law has been passed since 2008, but how many pastors or parents have been prosecuted. Not a single one! Rather we eulogize them and expect every body to do same. Unfortunate! Apart from the mere arrest and bail-out no one has ever face prosecution. Those who report such pastors to the government or its agency, risk being gunned after, blackmailed, even by same government agents with tacit support from the executive government. Akpabio and his government agents have been very infamous in launching vicious and calumnious attack on the right groups backed up by organisation such as Liberty Gospel Church that invented the child witch imbroglio and indeed phenomenon in Nigeria.



The Story of Victoria from Akwa Ibom State whose parents work in INEC and live in Karu, Abuja tells you that Akwa Ibom Child is not save any where in the world with brainwash launch by the Christian fanatical groups and government inaction or lack of intervention. Victoria's story reminds me of the Good Samaritan who wasn’t a Christian but stopped to rescue the dying Christ. Barrister Aja N. Aja who rescued Victoria is not from Akwa Ibom and may not be a Christian but dovetailed to help Victoria who is an Akwa Ibom Child.



Apart from the Child’s Right and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN) whose, founder (Sam Itauma) and members are Christians all other right groups that are today campaigning for the end to Child stigmatisation are not Christian by inclination or concept but they work tirelessly to save the lives of children who are manacled in churches and starved to death in the name of exorcism and the streets. So what the fusses about atheist and humanist groups when Christian groups have failed us? What the fuss when churches have failed us; when pastors, evangelist, Apostles, Bishop, Prophets have failed us?



I recently attended the attended a UNICEF advocacy meeting here in Akwa Ibom, where a government representative stood up and argued that some of the accused children might be witches. If a government official made such remarks in a high profile advocacy meeting like that, what does one expect how such children will be treated by the an ordinary person?



Such helpless children continue to dot the streets, taking refuge in abandoned structures and becoming prey to human traffickers and ritual killers. What could have happed to all these children if these groups did not step up campaigns to protect them? Reporting such abuse, torture or killing of children on the media is seen as fighting the government. The Akwa Ibom government continues to flaunt its bloated ego sweeping such cruelty on children under the carpet with the archaic cliché “Akwa Ibom Ado Ok”. Meaning Akwa Ibom is Ok! And now, it is “the Uncommon Transformation!” But whatever transformation that may have set in, while the human trafficking business in Nigeria or Africa continues to boom because the syndicates know Akwa Ibom State is a repository of abandoned children only compared to Nepal as a whole, makes such transformation a lip-service.



Truly if the Channel News TV that aired Victoria’s story was in Akwa Ibom, it would not have gone unscathed. The TV anchorman would have been under crucible investigation now by the government security agents. No doubt Governor Akpabio is working round the clock to gag the press using the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly as a puppet, defying the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill that was passed into law by the federal government of Nigeria.



While appreciating the fact that state government had enacted the child protection law, I bemoan bitterly as the implementation still remains a mirage. How many of these pastors or parent have so far been prosecuted, apart from the arrest and bail? One strong question that refuses to depart the lips of many is: What would have happened to the thousands of children stigmatised children if the civil society and right groups had taking to sitting on the fence? Clearly, with about 50 thousands churches in Nigeria, only one church is leading a campaign against witch hunting; with zero tolerance to witchcraft belief. This is Solid Rock Kingdom Church with Apostle John Okoriko. Can other churches and pastors borrow a leaf here?



To this end, I wish to dole out my Diadem of Honour to the right groups and civil society organizations with the following acronyms for working hard to save the witch children of Nigeria: CRARN, UNICEF, NAPTIP, SSN, YHN, CEHRD NHM and indeed the initiator of Anti Child Witch-Hunt Campaign Mr. Sam Itauma for donating time, resources and love for the ostracized children right to life.



Peters writes from Uyo, Akwa Ibom State

FUEL SUBSIDY / AMAKPE REFINERIES CUM CLEMENT IKPATT’S INSULT ON EKET PEOPLE

By Chris Oduok

“ …for failures by Amakpe Refineries, reflects reasonableness and carries along the overwhelming majority of Eket folks in the Diaspora. If it does, that will be so unfortunate and blatantly insulting. I think enough is enough !.... I call on well meaning Eket folks in the Diaspora to intervene and bring about reasonableness within the Eket Development Congress.” Clement Ikpatt

I am baffled, indeed perplexed about your response to the EDC Publication. I was so rattled that I decided to read the Publication again just in case I missed something. I was trying in particular to find the part which accused Gov. Godswill Akpabio for failures by Amakpe Refineries but there was nothing remotely close, if there is, please point it out. I thought the Release was objective and a fervent appeal to the Governor by a group who needed his assistance.

What I consider insulting is your interference in the internal affairs of EDC, Sir, you have absolutely no right to attempt that colonial strategy of divide and conquer, if you succeed, I will consider Eket people the most stupid people on earth and I know they are not. Where did you get the authority to question what EDC says when you are not a member of the organization.

EDC members do not question your press release as a SSA to the Governor ,or President of AIDN, why on earth do you have the effrontery to question EDC. I agree that enough is enough, but what is enough is that colonial mentality where you or anyone else thinks every organization must work in lockstep with your orders even when such orders are contrary to the vision of the organizations members.

You wrote: " No person or organization should try to bend public opinion in order to blackmail or muscle the government into funding that project with N30 million." Ete Clement, are you serious? Did you say we should not bend public opinion?, Should you and your organizations be the only ones to bend public opinion? This is how Dictatorship begins and people lay back and watch another Idi Amin in the making, this is just how it starts.

I have read several Press Releases from you and your organizations, I never read anywhere you guys were muscled into silence. What is the matter with you my friend? When EDC puts out a Press Release, appealing to the State Government to reconsider its position on Amakpe, it is blackmail in your opinion, but when you and your organization puts out a Press Release such as the one demanding the removal of the Governor of the Central Bank (CBN), it is not blackmail, in fact, to you it is a patriotic act by concern citizens, and you were not trying to sway or bend public opinion, Haba! Ete, wake up, you know we Akwa Ibomites and Eket in particular have gone through "uncommon transformation" and cannot be muscled.

We know you are the SSA to the Governor and you need to earn your pay, but you just can't throw objectivity into the dumpster just to please your pay master because you could actually be doing him a disservice. I agree, Akwa Ibomites are beyond wasting time, energies or electronic bytes on meaningless propaganda stunts from the SSA Diaspora. Our concentration must be towards encouraging the "uncommon transformation" of Akwa Ibom State, especially through freedom of people and organizations to exercise free speech and mind its business without undue and unnecessary interference.

You cannot call on Eket folks to fight themselves while you exploit them, the divide and conquer rule. Eket will stay united and address any differences they may have, they will not listen to you, the colonial masters played that trick on our people, it will not work again. Eket in Diaspora will not intervene in Eket Development Congress on your behalf because when EDC called on the Governor of Akwa Ibom State to intervene on their behalf, you the SSA Diaspora said it will not happen, you can't reap where you refuse to sow.


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Drunken cop kills colleague, self on duty!

FROM JOE EFFIONG & AMAOWO UDOFIA, UYO

Hell was let loose on Sunday evening when one of the mobile policemen guarding the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Uyo branch ran amok killing two persons including himself while injuring several others. Daily Sun learnt that the mobile policeman had gone out and returned drunk but demanded for his rifle, which was denied him due to his drunken state, but he forced his way into the armoury, seized a rifle with 30 live ammunition and started firing at random.

It was gathered that the policeman killed his colleague, who tried to prevent him from gaining access into the armoury before firing at two other policemen, Ibok and Muhammed, on duty.
Apart from the police casualty, it was gathered that one Ubong Udosen, who works in the electrical/technical department of the CBN was hit by the assailant’s bullet.
Unconfirmed report has it that the drunk policeman might not have killed himself as the police authorities claim, rather he might have been shot dead by some of his colleagues when he became uncontrollable and was considered a serious security risk.

It was not, however, clear whether it was his colleagues on duty on the CBN premises that silenced him or men from the security outfit in the state code-named Robot, who were attracted by the sporadic gunshots at the bank. It was learnt they helped in bringing sanity to the premises.

The two injured policemen, one of whom was shot in the crotch, were successfully operated upon in a private hospital along Ben Udo Street, Uyo. Daily Sun learnt that they were responding to treatment.
But the case of Udosen was still critical as at 4.00pm yesterday, as he could not talk or move any of his limbs and had to be tube-fed.
Our correspondent learnt that they were initially rushed to the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital but were not given immediate attention. The team had to take them to a private clinic, which mortuary the corpses of the two policemen were equally deposited.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Onyeka Orji, when contacted said the matter was being investigated.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, who equally confirmed the incident, however said it was a case of accidental discharge, which was promptly brought under control. He said the command had even informed the IGP of the incident.

EKET DEVELOPMENT CONGRESS (EDC) USA POSITION ON FUEL SUBSIDY AND THE AMAKPE REFINERIES

Gov Akpabio, hunted by Amakpa Referies


PRESS RELEASE: EKET DEVELOPMENT CONGRESS (EDC) POSITION ON FUEL

SUBSIDY AND HOW THE

COMPLETION OF AMAKPE REFINERIES WOULD HELP ALLEVIATE THE PROBLEM.



In light of the recent fuel subsidy crisis in Nigeria which almost

derailed our fragile Democracy and its continuous aftershocks, Eket

Development Congress USA Inc. (EDC) has decided to add its voice to those

of millions of Nigerians who believe that the solution to the subsidy

issue is within our power to ameliorate. The Federal Government and the

Akwa Ibom State Government in particular should seize this golden

opportunity to jump start talks with Amakpe Refinery, a Project with

benefits that would extend beyond the shores of Nigeria.

Like many Nigerians of different works, EDC is at a loss as to why the 8th

largest producer of Crude Oil in the world, Nigeria, is unable or

unwilling to refine adequate fuel for at least local consumption? Why do

we have to subsidize fuel imported from outside the country when we can

refine enough within the borders of Nigeria? Many have argued that it is

not profitable to refine locally as long as we are subsidizing imported

fuel, if we as Nigerians know what the problem is, why are we not willing

to fix it by creating the environment to promote the establishment of more

local refineries.


EDC notes with interest Governor Akpabio’s recent statement in which he

expressed his support for the removal of the subsidy, and maintained that

the subsidy was applicable to fuel imports, and therefore had no potential

to generate employment, or add to the country’s gross domestic product.

The Governor was also quoted as saying that rather than subsidizing

consumption, the government should subsidize production, pointing out that

under the subsidy, those who ran refineries were not eligible for subsidy

but were expected to sell at the regulated price, while those importing

fuel were benefiting from the subsidy.


Given the above comments and recent pronouncements by the government of

Akwa Ibom State, led by Governor Godswill Akpabio, to release the sum of

one billion dollars for the industrialization of the state that has

prompted EDC to assume that Governor Akpabio would fully support an

immediate commencement of talks with the Amakpe Refinery promoters with

the aim of finding a lasting solution to the impasse.


The Amakpe Refinery Project requires the sum of $30 million to fund the

pending receivables and construction costs to complete full implementation

at the Project site in Eket, Akwa Ibom State, and will start-up production

and be operational within six months of shipment of the completely

fabricated Refinery Equipment. Implementation of the Amakpe Refinery

Project will create over 1,000 direct jobs and about 5,000 indirect jobs

in the restive Niger Delta of Nigeria which would go a long way in

assisting the Federal Government Militancy Rehabilitation Program. Within

a few years of operation, the 6,000 BPD Amakpe Refinery will increase

its refining capacity through 12,000BPD to 50,000 BPD, and would create

over 3,000 direct jobs and 20,000 indirect jobs, with the ability to

reduce militancy and kidnappings in the Niger Delta Region .

Furthermore, the development will support the genuine efforts of the

Federal Government of Nigeria aimed at increasing local crude oil refining

capacity and making Nigeria Energy independent, which will help to address

the problem of Fuel subsidy.

Prayers:

EDC is requesting Your Excellency, Governor Godswill Akpabio to note the

urgent importance of the Project towards your Industrialization program in

Akwa Ibom State and by extension, Nigeria’s economic growth and

development and;


(a) Intervene in the seeming misunderstanding between the Primary

Promoters and the Akwa Ibom State Government.

(b) Facilitate the approval of a US$30 million loan request made by

Sterling Bank to the Bank of Industry (“BOI”) to support the completion of

the Project; and

(c) Encourage the Federal Government to grant Amakpe Refinery Project the

benefit from the Department of Petroleum Resources Fiscal Incentives for

development of Private Refineries.

EDC urges Akwa Ibom State government to reconsider its position in the

interest of the overall good of our citizens, as it strives to create

gainful employment for the citizens of Akwa Ibom State in particular and

Nigeria in general. EDC also urges both parties to enter into good faith

negotiations and find a way out of the quagmire. We believe that the

Government of Akwa Ibom State as a "senior member" of our society should

invite the Amakpe Promoters for talks in the interest of our State and for

the benefit of all.

We thank you and we look forward to your commissioning of the Amakpe

Refinery Project in the very near future.

Margaret Itauma Nwaessien Essien

National President National Secretary

Eket Development Congress USA Inc

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PRESS RELEASE: EKET DEVELOPMENT CONGRESS (USA) INC.

PO Box 540106, Houston Texas USA 77254

Http://www.eketusa.org/

SHOCKING CONFESSIONS FROM EX-BOKO HARAM WHO CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY. ALLEGED IBB IS THE MAJOR SPONSOR OF BOKO HARAM

It is quite revealing, entrapping, entertaining, yet more amazing.Could this help Nigeria and countries affected Islamic terrorist group?

Question: Who are you and where are you from?

Answer: My name is Sheik Sani Haliru. I am from Niger Republic, but my mother is from Bornu State of Nigeria and I grew up in Wulari, Maiduguri, (Northern Nigeria) where I was trained.

Q: Trained as what and under whose tutelage?

A: I was trained as an Almajiri, after four years, at the age of 14, I was sent to Kano City, Kano State where I was trained in the Sheik Abubakar Gummi School of Arabic studies.

Q: So you know Sheik Abubakar Gummi?

A: Yes, and I also know his children and obeyed all the teachings he laid down before he died.

Q: So who tutored you and who is your mentor?

A: Sheik Abubakar Gummi tutored me. My mentor was Osama bin Laden, and until my conversion from Islam to the Christian faith, my dreams and aspirations in life was to do more than Osama bin Laden did before he died on Sunday, May 1, 2011.

Q: You said that your mentor was Osama bin Laden. Is he still your mentor?

A: I am now a changed person. The Sheik Sani Haliru is now a new creature, old things have passed away because I now have Jesus Christ that I hated and persecuted for 44 years.

Q: Tell me about your past and how many countries of the World you have been to?

A: I cannot tell all about my past because it will take several days to tell my story and about my conversion experience to Christianity. I have been to eight countries.

Q: Can you please name them?

A: I have been to Sudan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Egypt and of course to my own country Niger Republic.

Q: Where did you receive your training and as what?

A: I received my training in Libya and Pakistan as an Attack Strategist. I was trained along side with some highly placed Nigerians and other foreign Nationals who were marked (he showed me the proof of his mark with a sign) in the form of a sword in the hand to fight and kill for Allah.

Q: Can you give me some of the names of your colleagues with whom you received training in Libya and Pakistan?

A: They are scattered all over the country and we were not too many then.

Q: Just mention but a few names.

A: Ali Baba Nur, Asari Dokubo, Jasper Akinbo, Mohammed Yusuf, Salisu Maigari, Danlami Abubakar, Cletus Okar, Ali Qaqa, Maigari Haliru and Asabe Dantala to mention but a few.

Q: Which of the Asari’s do you mean?

A: The Niger Delta war king. He was a year ahead of me in Benghazi training camp in Libya.

Q: Who financed your training in Libya and Pakistan?

A: You will not believe me and only God will judge the Chief sponsor of terrorism in Nigeria whose name I will not mention because he is so powerful and even the president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, is so much afraid of the man.

Q: If you really know the Christ in you, why are you afraid to tell me the name of the man who sponsored you and the date or approximate period he sponsored you.

A: I am not afraid because he knows me and he cannot deny it if he sees me face to face.

Q: Then tell me, who is this powerful man?

A: The man is no other person than the man they call IBB now as I am talking to you, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has more than 600 men and women Jihadists who are under his pay role. They are scattered all over the Country and he (IBB) can use them to destroy Nigeria.

Q: Did you say six hundred?

A: Yes 600 + IBB’s agents of destruction are in the Nigeria Army (NA), Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Navy, Air Force, Oil and Gas sectors, even in the finance home such as in top level positions of CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria) and other banks. You find them in politics, in the Senate, National Assembly, in the media both print and electronic and even in Aso Rock, Abuja (Nigeria’s capital).

Q: How do you mean by this statement “and even in the finance…”?

A: Yes, I mean every word I say; even the Islamic bank champion was planted by IBB to help in Islamizing Nigeria.

Q: So how can you describe IBB?

A: IBB is a “green snake” in green grass. He is the main problem of Nigeria along with members of the Cabal.

Q: Have you forwarded any of these evidence(s) to Aso Rock or to SSS (State Security Services)?

A: I attempted to do so a few weeks ago and I was arrested and detained for two days because IBB’S men are so many in SSS (State Security Services) as well. After I was released by the grace of God, they (the Police) warned me never to blow up the polity or provoke violence and I should keep my so-called-born-again with me or else I will go to jail.

Q: So you were a key member and a registered jihadist hardliner.

A: Yes, I was.

Q: Under what group?

A: I was a Boko Haramist. But Boko Haram is just a cover name to give it a name. I have my identity as a founding member of the dreaded jama’aful Ahlul sunna wal Liddawati wal Jihad, aka Boko Haram.

Q: Apart from IBB, who are the other top sponsors of terrorism in this country?

A: They are many, but IBB is the major financier. He introduced the suicide bombing that started when he killed Dele Giwa. I have the names of six traditional rulers and seven present & ex-Governors as well as several top military and security officers who are co-sponsoring the so called Boko Haram. That apart, I have documented evidences to prove that General Mohammadu Buhari, Alhaji Abubaka Atiku and other top politicians and traditional rulers are some of the people behind Boko Haram. Very soon, nemesis will catch up with them.

Q: What if I use my influence to guarantee you safety, can you brief the press to expose IBB (General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida) with all these documents that I am seeing with you right now.

A: Only God can guarantee my safety. He did so on that fateful day when the SSS and police wanted to secretly kill me because of what I unveiled. I would have been a dead man by now if not for a man of God who came as an “Angel” to quietly free me. Right now, I am wanted dead or alive by IBB and his agents of destruction in high places. The SSS are busy hunting for me up & down and arresting and torturing innocent people because of me.

Q: What if I connect you to a man of God by the name of Brother Mike Ejiofor, who is a lawyer, a professional negotiator and a mediator who was the Director of SSS until October 2010?

A: I only wish to be connected to God.

Q: So how can you describe this country?

A: Nigeria is sifting under an Islamic barbaric bomb (IBB). Only God can rescue this nation because 75% of Christians are prayer less. Why? Because they are in their own comfort zone. They do not know what the Christians in Northern Nigeria are passing through and they ignorantly are thinking that the Allah of the Muslims is the same as the God of Christians in the Holy Bible who says: “Thou shalt not kill”.

Q: What does the Qur’an say about Islam being referred to as a religion of peace by numerous Muslim scholars?

A: Let me tell you in a very clear language that Islam is not a religion of peace, but it is of violence, of killers and fighters as already stated in their so called “Holy” Qur’an which I ignorantly followed all these years when I was spiritually blinded as a Muslim.

Q: Can you prove these statements from the Qur’an?

A: [Sani Haliru, who is now known as Solomon Haliru (Paul Haliru’s brother)] brought out two copies of the original Qur’an in the Arabic & English translation. He gave me one, and told me to open the book to Surah Al- baqarah chapter 2 vs 216. It says, “Holy fighting is ordained (prescribed) for all muslims, whether they like it or not, as far as it is good and approved by Allah through his prophet Mohammed.”

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Q: Where is it in the Qur’an that killing is also permitted by Allah?

A: Look at Surah Al-baqarah chapter 2 vs 191 “And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. An Al-Fitnah is worse than killing. And fight not with them at Al-Masjid-Al-Haram (the sanctuary at Makkah), unless they (first) fight you there. But if they attack you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.” Muslims are told to kill and fight in the cause of Allah.

Q: Does it mean that IBB and all these Muslim traditional rulers and Governors that are sponsoring Boko Haram to kill Christians and burn our churches in the North are not aware of the passage in the Qur’an that says there must not be compulsion in Islam as Mohammadu Buhari asserted in a widely publicized interview on Saturday, the 21st of April, 2011?

A: I have worked so closely with Mohammadu Buahri for five years, and I can prove it that General Buhari is the most notable outspoken jihadist hardliner in Nigeria who is also strategically sponsoring Boko Haram.

Q: General Buhari told a group of pressmen in April 2011 that there is no compulsion in Islam and it is a religion of peace. He quoted Surah Al-Baqarah Chapter 2:225. What can you say to that?

A: What I can say to that is General Buhari, like all other true Muslims, is a hypocrite who is shying away from the fact.

Q: How do you mean by saying that most Muslim millionaires and highly placed Muslims are “pretenders and shying away from the fact”?

A: What I mean is that they (Muslims-both rich and poor) are told to use their position of wealth (or otherwise) to promote Islam or else they will face destruction from Allah.

Q: Where can you find this in the Qu’ran?

A: Open Surah Al-Baqarah Chapter 2:195, it is written here that you must use your wealth to champion Jihad of all kinds or else destruction is waiting for such a person on the last day.

“And spend in the Cause of Allah (i.e. Jihad of all kinds) and do not throw yourselves into destruction (by not spending your wealth in the Cause of Allah), and do good. Truly, Allah loves Al-Muhsinun (the good-doers).”

Q: Have you ever been detained or arrested?

A: Nobody could arrest me until the year 2009 soon after my immediate boss Mohammed Yusuf was killed. About 23 of us were arrested in one of our hideouts in Bauchi. But when Governor Isa Yagiuda heard about it, he immediately arranged for me to be free. Even before his official broadcast in 2010 that he was using his position as the executive Governor of Bauchi State (Northern Nigeria) to free 28 prisoners from Bauchi Central Prison, I was already a free man along with several of my colleagues.

Q: Now can you tell me some of the horrible crimes that you committed and how you got born again and became converted.

A: Old things have passed away and I don’t want to talk about the past, because like Apostle Paul said, we need to press forward in Christ Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

Q: Just mention a few to assist some of us who are making efforts to unravel the mystery of the menace called Boko Haram which you have renounced.

A: I took part in the Kaduna riot of 1992 and in several northern states of Nigeria, but the state I operated more from was Bornu (northern Nigeria) where I was the State Commander/Chief Strategist.

Q: So as Chief Attack Strategist, what crimes have or did you commit before you renounced the deadly sect?

A: In the early months of May 1986, I was among the 36 Jihadist hardliners, who went on a rampage to attack Christian students of the University of Sokoto (Sokoto State in northern Nigeria). In that same week, the Federal Government of Nigeria under the brutal leadership of IBB mobilized us and provided some military vans and Army uniforms which our men used and started killing innocent and defenseless Christians all over the Northern states. I and the son of the Emir of Kano, who is now a Christian by name Rev. Paul Ado Bayero, were among the Muslim fanatics who razed down the sculpture of Jesus at the University of Ibadan (Oyo State in western Nigeria).

The following year, March 5, 1987 to be very precise, the “Evil Genius” General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida secretly armed us through one of his close aids by the name of Captain Hassan Abubakar (now a Pastor with a fast growing church in Lagos). We went to go and kill some targeted Christians including Rev. Nuhu Kure (Throne room founder) after the destruction we committed at the College of Education in Kafanchan, Kaduna State (North Central Nigeria). And of recent, I was the leader of the team of soldiers of Allah that destroyed Church buildings and properties in Bornu State (northern Nigeria).

Q: Can you name some of the buildings and Churches you and your Boko Haramists destroyed?

A: There are many, but our main targets which we succeeded in destroying included: Goodnews & ECWA Church, Damboa Road, Maiduguri E.Y.N.L.C.C. Wulari, National Evangelical Mission Inc. Divisional Headquarters Wulari, Elijah Apostolic Christ Church, Oke Ayo Celestial Church of Christ, Deeper Life Bible Church, the Lord’s Chosen and six others in Railway Area and all over Wulari in Maiduguri, Borno State. Other church buildings we destroyed and looted include the Aposotic Church, COCIN Church, Evangelical Church/Mission Headquarters, Anglican Church, Baptist Church/Mission, Redeemed Christian Church of God, El-Shaddai Parish, Watchman Charismatic and several others.

Q: Where were the security officers when you were destroying all these church buildings and killing Christians?

A: Since 1985 when General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) started using us to persecute Christians, the Nigerian Army has been an extension or shall I say an arm of the Muslims agenda to Islamize Nigeria. Wherever they go to attack Christians, the Muslims in the top military positions give the cover by providing the logistics. Since the day of Babangida (1985) Christians suffer violence. This is the time that we must attack them and take what belongs to us by force.

Q: You don’t seem to like IBB and you talk so much of his evil deeds. Are you the only one he used or is there more revelation we can investigate or ascertain further?

A: Babangida is the most wicked and heartless man I have ever seen or worked with. He used many Muslim fanatics (Most of who are now Christians) to commit a lot of atrocities. For example, he used Alhaji Sannusi Dasuki (now Solomon Dasuki), Alhaji Ahmed Ado Bayero (now Rev. Paul Ado Bayero), Alhaji Mohammed Usman (now Evangelist Blessed Usman), Alhaji Sani Jegga (now Isaac Jegga) to attack the following men of God: Late Papa Idahosa, Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, Rev. Uma Ukpai, Rev. O. Ezekiel and other men of God. He used some of the people whose names mentioned above to burn down several million copies of the Holy Bible. Along with the late MKO Abiola, they both sponsored the sinking of three million copies of the Holy Bible into the high sea.

Q: With all these revelations, can’t IBB be arrested and charged to court?

A: Who will arrest him? Is it Goodluck or who? Even when we provided the proofs to them that IBB killed Dele Giwa and that he sponsored the burning and looting of the Jos main market (Terminus) and also planted the seed of the present crises in Plateau State in 1991, they refused to arrest him because he is very cunning in his evil ways. He leaves no trace of his evil deeds, but nemesis will soon catch up with him because the sardonic spirit in him will soon expire.

Q: In a simple language, how can you describe IBB?

A: Ibrahim Babangida is a wicked and heartless man. As a military officer he was very brutal and as a politician he is very selfish and tricky. He better repent and confess his numerous sins and wickedness before it will be too late.

Q: Can you prove to the readers that fighting and killing in the name of Allah is justified in the Holy Qur’an?

A: I can site more than 28 passages from the Holy Qur’an where fighting and killing is justified as approved in the cause and for the sake of Allah. Please turn to the Qur’an (it goes from the back to the front) and see the book Surah At-Taubah Chapter 9:29 “Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad), and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” In this passage, every true Muslim(s) is specifically instructed to fight against four (4) groups of people especially the Jews and Christians.

Q: So what is the meaning of Jizyah and how was the name coined?

A: From the footnote as you can see in the Qur’an, Jizyah is a tax levied against the people of the scriptures (i.e. the Christians) who are under the Islamic government. Jizyah was coined out after the Jaiz bank that the Muslims are wanting to use to take over the financial world via Islamic Banking.

Q: Are you saying indirectly that Islam is not a religion of peace as most Muslims will want us to believe?

A: I am saying it directly not indirectly that Islam is a religion of violence It is a religion of force. More than 95% of Nigerian journalists and people of the world are ignorant of what the Qur’an teaches and/or says about Islam and violence.

Q: How do you mean?

A: Open the Qur’an to Surah Muhammad Chapter 47:4. In this very passage, Muslims are commanded by Allah to kill and smite the neck of anyone who does not accept the teaching of Islam, and according to the satanic verses they (Muslims) would be helping Allah by so doing.

I quote exactly as it is written in the Muslims Holy Qur’an: “So, when you meet (in fight-Jihad in Allah’s Cause) those who disbelieve, smite (their) necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them, then bind a bond firmly (on them, i.e. take them as captives). Thereafter (is the time) either for generosity (i.e. free from them without ransom), or ransom (according to what benefits Islam), until the war lays down its burden. Thus [you are ordered by Allah to continue in carrying out Jihad against the disbelievers till they embrace Islam and are saved from the punishment in the Hell-fire or at least come under your protection], but if it had been Allah’s Will, He Himself could certainly have punished them (without you). But (He lets you fight) in order to test some of you with others. But those who are killed in the Way of Allah, He will never let their deeds be lost.”

Q: So is that why all Muslims are indirectly supporting Boko Haram?

A: Yes, Boko Haram is just a name coined by satan to Islamize the world. That is why every true Muslim is directly and indirectly supporting Boko Haram.

Q: Can you explain further?

A: In Surah Al-Baqarah 2:195, the wealthy Muslims and all those in high position of authority such as IBB, Buhari, Atiku, Isa Yaguda, etc. are told to use their wealth and any position they find themselves in to promote Islam and the cause of jihad of all kinds or else they will face destruction from Allah.

Q: Is that how the suicide bombers come into the picture?

A: Yes,

Q: My readers will like to know from the Qur’an if Islam is the zenith of wickedness as you earlier said.

A: In the Qur’an Allah commanded thus “(Remember) when your Lord revealed to the angels, Verily, I am with you, so keep firm those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved, so strike them over the necks, and smite over all their fingers and toes.” (See the Qur’an of Surah Al-Anfal 8:12)

Q: So you did accordingly?

A: Yes! Satan used Buhari and Tunde Bakare, the false prophet, to smite the necks and chop off the fingers and toes of several Christians in Zaira, Maiduguri, Bauchi and several other places.

Q: Which passages say that the Christians are enemies of the Muslims? Some ignorant Christian leaders and pressmen are of the opinion that both Christians and Muslims worship the same God.

A: Christians and journalists (about 95%) are very ignorant. Let them search the original Qur’an (The Noble Qur’an). The more the Muslim leaders try to block the original Qur’an from circulation, the more the lie spreads that we’re serving the same God. That is why the Lord says “I will build my church; and the gates of (hades) hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18

Q: Mention another satanic verse that makes every true Muslim(s) to hate Christians.

A: In addition to the several passages and mentioned earlier, please take a look at Surah An-Nisa 4:101 and I quote “For the Unbelievers are unto you open enemies.”

Q: What is the solution to this problem of the Boko Haram menace?

A: The problem is not Boko Haram. The problem is the Spirit of Islam which must be crushed by the prayer of the Saints. Was it not through prayer that people like Rev. Paul Ado Bayero, Bishop K. K. Degaya, Apostle Johnson Suleman and hundreds of others got saved? Was it not through prayer that I got saved on my way to assassinate both Rev. Samuel Dasuki and Evangelist Blessed Usman when they were in their training camp in a crusade/ministration to their converts? I tell you from my experience this past few months as a Christian, many Christians are not united. In the north Christians are more united and sincere, but in the south & west, Christians are in comfort zones and if they don’t wake up, they will be surprised of what Muslims will do to them.

Q: What can Muslims do in Warri, Port Harcourt and other southern and western zones?

A: Look let me tell you one top secret. Before I repented, an average of 2,500 Muslim fanatics came to Delta State every month, 2,000 to the Eastern states and 2,000 to Cross River State and 2,500 to other zones. All of these Muslim fanatics were sent in preparation of the holy war (Jihad).

Q: Where are they camped?

A: In various Mosques and Islamic training schools which they use as training camps at odd hours (—for security reasons, the author/interviewer have decided not to publish the other details of this answer in print).

Q: What advice do you have for Christians in the comfort zones?

A: Pray for our Christian brethren in the north. Secondly, stop giving your ladies to Muslims. Thirdly, do no sell your land to a Muslim any longer. Fourth, do not employ them as security men. Fifth, beware of what they do with your finger nails and hair. Finally, watch them carefully and be very prayerful because Nigeria is sitting on an Islamic barbaric bomb (IBB) and the Muslims are prepared to fight you in your backyard.

Q: Any advice for the president?

A: They are desperate to get him/his family by kidnap/killing them, not only by Spiritual means, but through some well trained security men who he think can never disappoint him. About six suicide bombers are in the presidency and one of them is a student from NDA-Nigerian Defence Academy (other details I am keeping for security reasons).

Q: Do you know anything about bombing?

A: In answer to this question, I shall give you a top secret document which is supposed to be for only committed Muslims which I smuggled out and gave to some Christian leaders in the south.

Q: But tell me a little of how they got the knowledge to manufacture a bomb? Who sponsored your people to do these wicked acts?

A: We were sponsored by the man they call IBB and some top Muslims within and outside the country. We also worked hand in hand with Al Qaeda. As far back as 12th of June, 2011 when I got converted to Christianity, I gave several documents to Police and SSS. They arrested and detained me. But the Holy Spirit released me the same day that they wanted to kill me secretly by poisoning.

Q: What secrets did you give them?

A: I told them that the Muslims are using trailer and vehicles in military colour and are escorted by northern soldiers to smuggle weapons to various mosques and Islamic training schools in Aba, Onitsha, Port Harcourt, Owerri, Calabar, Sapele, Warri, Ebonyi and Enugu States, etc.

Q: What about the bomb manufacturers?

A: I told them that the Traditional Rulers in the northern part of Nigeria and many state governors in the far north are sponsoring Boko Haram. I told them that I was paid a deposit of 5 million Naira to go and bomb NDA in the month of August 2011 when they will be planning the graduation that just took place where I would have driven straight to the Commander’s Office with a covering letter from a Garrison Officer commander whose name I gave to the police and who is a close relative to IBB.

Q: Did you give the name of the bomb location where the training is going on?

A: Yes, I gave them and told them where they were training 65 new Islamic Youths in two bomb factories in Bauchi, Bornu and Niger states and also the bomb factory at Hanyan Nassarawa Iku, Niger State.

Q: Any more revelation?

A: Yes, I gave them many bomb factories even in the southern and eastern states and seven in Kaduna State, Plateau State and Abuja. It was in the Niger State bomb factory that we manufactured the improvised explosive devices that was used to operate in Abuja on October 1, 2010.

Q: Did the police take immediate action?

A: The news leaked to IBB immediately and he immediately instructed his ground soldiers to relocate the bombs. The Police and SSS were afraid to search some of the mosques because the presidency must be aware that by so doing, the country Will explode into a religious war between Christians and Muslims. That is why I said Nigeria is sitting on Islamic time bomb or shall I say Islamic Barbaric Bomb.

***This interview comes from the book Unveiling Islam/Boko Haram by Blessed Usman, JP.http://naijajive.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=cprqi8d7kk9rug5hqtc8pdqoj3&topic=1681.0#.TytcPPql8f8.facebook

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