Nigeria: What Does Boko Haram Want?

6 September 2011
opinion

I have refused to say much on Boko Haram because it is a risky venture. I honestly do not have the whole facts of the matter. I do not know the immediate sponsors of Boko Haram, but I am 90 per cent certain of its distance sponsors.

However, the difficulty is that even the Nigerian state may lack the capabilities to unravel these distance sponsors, or as WikiLeaks have proved to us, top members of the government of Nigeria may have been compromised into working in cohort with Boko Haram to achieve the determined aim.

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