Nigeria: Boko Haram - the Borno Saga

2 January 2011

Maiduguri — Maiduguri, the Borno state capital has in the recent time, raised the feeling of fear and insecurity with the recent attacks and insurgence by members of the Boko Haram who claimed to engage in vengeance as a result of the killing of their leader, Mallam Mohammed Yusuf and the massive killings of their members in the July 2009 crisis that engulfed some parts of the north. Recently, members of the Boko Haram sect claimed responsibility of the serial killings of policemen and traditional rulers in the state.

In a telephone interview with BBC Hausa monitored by our correspondent in Maiduguri, a sect member who refused to disclose his name and telephone number said that they were on a revenge mission as most of their members were killed by the police, while the traditional rulers were targeted for disclosing the names and whereabouts of the sect members.

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