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I am not surprised to read two Nigerians condemning Obama and praising his opponent, Mitt Romney. In all the opinion polls carried out in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Japan, China, etc, 80% chose Obama as the better candidate. During Abacha's time, most prominent Nigerians at that time were praising Abacha as the best of all candidates to rule Nigeria in a democratic government. To cut the story short, it is only Nigerians who after taking bribes, that go to claim that the devil is always the better candidate. Femi Fani-Kayode and co, please don't sell your conscience, don't betray your brother just because of few dollars ... Americas will always vote for the right candidate. And Obama will be returned president a second time. God bless America.

How much is the Romney camp paying you? Or I suppose that you are not a part of the 47% he claims needs to be discarded (if you live in the US) Most if not all of what you have said is unfounded. Not to mention the fact that America is not necessarily run by the POTUS alone, but by the corporations that run the country, the same ones who will be running Romney if he were to be the POTUS. There is not in this commentary a sound argument for supporting Romney on any level, given the fact that there is no mention of any type of plan by him. Obama is not perfect, and any person with critical thinking skills will not agree with him on many of his actions and policies. However, in this country, given that the revolution has not yet occurred, you pick your poison. Obama did not create the economic mess we have had to crawl out of, and the bailouts had to happen, or else the economy would have had to run its course to the end, thus sending more people to the soup kitchen line. Romney's record in Massachusetts is deplorable (do the research), and if we look at the mess Bain Capital has caused, its even more cause to raise eyebrows. It is despicable that an African would even mention the pilgrims and founding fathers, without even acknowledging the role that Africans and their descendants played in building this country in the first place. If anything, we are the ones who are owed, and who should be taken into consideration when the legacy of this country is taken into account. Myself, and those representing various religions support Obama for promoting inclusion, not separation. And it still stands that the US gives more money to Israel than it does towards foreign assistance to developing nations - 8.5 MILLION A DAY.

Below you will find reasons WHY there are those who support the POTUS: 1. Passed Health Care Reform: After five presidents over a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act (2010). It will cover 32 million uninsured Americans beginning in 2014 and mandates a suite of experimental measures to cut health care cost growth, the number one cause of America’s long-term fiscal problems.

2. Passed the Stimulus: Signed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid greatest recession since the Great Depression. Weeks after stimulus went into effect, unemployment claims began to subside. Twelve months later, the private sector began producing more jobs than it was losing, and it has continued to do so for twenty-three straight months, creating a total of nearly 3.7 million new private-sector jobs.

3. Passed Wall Street Reform: Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010) to re-regulate the financial sector after its practices caused the Great Recession. The new law tightens capital requirements on large banks and other financial institutions, requires derivatives to be sold on clearinghouses and exchanges, mandates that large banks provide “living wills” to avoid chaotic bankruptcies, limits their ability to trade with customers’ money for their own profit, and creates the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (now headed by Richard Cordray) to crack down on abusive lending products and companies.

4. Ended the War in Iraq: Ordered all U.S. military forces out of the country. Last troops left on December 18, 2011.

5. Began Drawdown of War in Afghanistan: From a peak of 101,000 troops in June 2011, U.S. forces are now down to 91,000, with 23,000 slated to leave by the end of summer 2012. According to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, the combat mission there will be over by next year.

6. Eliminated Osama bin laden: In 2011, ordered special forces raid of secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in which the terrorist leader was killed and a trove of al-Qaeda documents was discovered.

7. Turned Around U.S. Auto Industry: In 2009, injected $62 billion in federal money (on top of $13.4 billion in loans from the Bush administration) into ailing GM and Chrysler in return for equity stakes and agreements for massive restructuring. Since bottoming out in 2009, the auto industry has added more than 100,000 jobs. In 2011, the Big Three automakers all gained market share for the first time in two decades. The government expects to lose $16 billion of its investment, less if the price of the GM stock it still owns increases.

8. Recapitalized Banks: In the midst of financial crisis, approved controversial Treasury Department plan to lure private capital into the country’s largest banks via “stress tests” of their balance sheets and a public-private fund to buy their “toxic” assets. Got banks back on their feet at essentially zero cost to the government.

9. Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”: Ended 1990s-era restriction and formalized new policy allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military for the first time.

10. Toppled Moammar Gaddafi: In March 2011, joined a coalition of European and Arab governments in military action, including air power and naval blockade, against Gaddafi regime to defend Libyan civilians and support rebel troops. Gaddafi’s forty-two-year rule ended when the dictator was overthrown and killed by rebels on October 20, 2011. No American lives were lost.

11. Told Mubarak to Go: On February 1, 2011, publicly called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to accept reform or step down, thus weakening the dictator’s position and putting America on the right side of the Arab Spring. Mubarak ended thirty-year rule when overthrown on February 11.

12. Reversed Bush Torture Policies: Two days after taking office, nullified Bush-era rulings that had allowed detainees in U.S. custody to undergo certain “enhanced” interrogation techniques considered inhumane under the Geneva Conventions. Also released the secret Bush legal rulings supporting the use of these techniques.

13. Improved America’s Image Abroad: With new policies, diplomacy, and rhetoric, reversed a sharp decline in world opinion toward the U.S. (and the corresponding loss of “soft power”) during the Bush years. From 2008 to 2011, favorable opinion toward the United States rose in ten of fifteen countries surveyed by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, with an average increase of 26 percent.

14. Kicked Banks Out of Federal Student Loan Program, Expanded Pell Grant Spending: As part of the 2010 health care reform bill, signed measure ending the wasteful decades-old practice of subsidizing banks to provide college loans. Starting July 2010 all students began getting their federal student loans directly from the federal government. Treasury will save $67 billion over ten years, $36 billion of which will go to expanding Pell Grants to lower-income students.

15. Created Race to the Top: With funds from stimulus, started $4.35 billion program of competitive grants to encourage and reward states for education reform.

16. Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards: Released new fuel efficiency standards in 2011 that will nearly double the fuel economy for cars and trucks by 2025.

17. Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis: To keep world economy out of recession in 2009 and 2010, helped secure from G-20 nations more than $500 billion for the IMF to provide lines of credit and other support to emerging market countries, which kept them liquid and avoided crises with their currencies.

18. Passed Mini Stimuli: To help families hurt by the recession and spur the economy as stimulus spending declined, signed series of measures (July 22, 2010; December 17, 2010; December 23, 2011) to extend unemployment insurance and cut payroll taxes.

19. Began Asia “Pivot”: In 2011, reoriented American military and diplomatic priorities and focus from the Middle East and Europe to the Asian-Pacific region. Executed multipronged strategy of positively engaging China while reasserting U.S. leadership in the region by increasing American military presence and crafting new commercial, diplomatic, and military alliances with neighboring countries made uncomfortable by recent Chinese behavior.

20. Increased Support for Veterans: With so many soldiers coming home from Iraq and Iran with serious physical and mental health problems, yet facing long waits for services, increased 2010 Department of Veterans Affairs budget by 16 percent and 2011 budget by 10 percent. Also signed new GI bill offering $78 billion in tuition assistance over a decade, and provided multiple tax credits to encourage businesses to hire veterans.

21. Tightened Sanctions on Iran: In effort to deter Iran’s nuclear program, signed Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act (2010) to punish firms and individuals who aid Iran’s petroleum sector. In late 2011 and early 2012, coordinated with other major Western powers to impose sanctions aimed at Iran’s banks and with Japan, South Korea, and China to shift their oil purchases away from Iran.

22. Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants: New EPA restrictions on mercury and toxic pollution, issued in December 2011, likely to lead to the closing of between sixty-eight and 231 of the nation’s oldest and dirtiest coal-fired power plants. Estimated cost to utilities: at least $11 billion by 2016. Estimated health benefits: $59 billion to $140 billion. Will also significantly reduce carbon emissions and, with other regulations, comprises what’s been called Obama’s “stealth climate policy.”

23. Passed Credit Card Reforms: Signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act (2009), which prohibits credit card companies from raising rates without advance notification, mandates a grace period on interest rate increases, and strictly limits overdraft and other fees.

24. Eliminated Catch-22 in Pay Equality Laws: Signed Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009, giving women who are paid less than men for the same work the right to sue their employers after they find out about the discrimination, even if that discrimination happened years ago. Under previous law, as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., the statute of limitations on such suits ran out 180 days after the alleged discrimination occurred, even if the victims never knew about it.

25. Protected Two Liberal Seats on the U.S. Supreme Court:Nominated and obtained confirmation for Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic and third woman to serve, in 2009; and Elena Kagan, the fourth woman to serve, in 2010. They replaced David Souter and John Paul Stevens, respectively.

26. Improved Food Safety System: In 2011, signed FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, which boosts the Food and Drug Administration’s budget by $1.4 billion and expands its regulatory responsibilities to include increasing number of food inspections, issuing direct food recalls, and reviewing the current food safety practices of countries importing products into America.

27. Achieved New START Treaty: Signed with Russia (2010) and won ratification in Congress (2011) of treaty that limits each country to 1,550 strategic warheads (down from 2,200) and 700 launchers (down from more than 1,400), and reestablished and strengthened a monitoring and transparency program that had lapsed in 2009, through which each country can monitor the other.

28. Expanded National Service: Signed Serve America Act in 2009, which authorized a tripling of the size of AmeriCorps. Program grew 13 percent to 85,000 members across the country by 2012, when new House GOP majority refused to appropriate more funds for further expansion.

29. Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection: Signed Omnibus Public Lands Management Act (2009), which designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, created thousands of miles of recreational and historic trails, and protected more than 1,000 miles of rivers.

30. Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco: Signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (2009). Nine years in the making and long resisted by the tobacco industry, the law mandates that tobacco manufacturers disclose all ingredients, obtain FDA approval for new tobacco products, and expand the size and prominence of cigarette warning labels, and bans the sale of misleadingly labeled “light” cigarette brands and tobacco sponsorship of entertainment events.

31. Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders: Issued executive order in 2009 requiring all federal agencies to make plans to soften their environmental impacts by 2020. Goals include 30 percent reduction in fleet gasoline use, 26 percent boost in water efficiency, and sustainability requirements for 95 percent of all federal contracts. Because federal government is the country’s single biggest purchaser of goods and services, likely to have ripple effects throughout the economy for years to come.

32. Passed Fair Sentencing Act: Signed 2010 legislation that reduces sentencing disparity between crack versus powder cocaine possessionfrom100 to1 to 18 to1.

33. Trimmed and Reoriented Missile Defense: Cut the Reagan-era “Star Wars” missile defense budget, saving $1.4 billion in 2010, and canceled plans to station antiballistic missile systems in Poland and the Czech Republic in favor of sea-based defense plan focused on Iran and North Korea.

34. Began Post-Post-9/11 Military Builddown: After winning agreement from congressional Republicans and Democrats in summer 2011 budget deal to reduce projected defense spending by $450 billion, proposed new DoD budget this year with cuts of that size and a new national defense strategy that would shrink ground forces from 570,000 to 490,000 over the next ten years while increasing programs in intelligence gathering and cyberwarfare.

35. Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission: Allowed the expensive ($1 billion per launch), badly designed, dangerous shuttle program to make its final launch on July 8, 2011. Cut off funding for even more bloated and problem-plagued Bush-era Constellation program to build moon base in favor of support for private-sector low-earth orbit ventures, research on new rocket technologies for long-distance manned flight missions, and unmanned space exploration, including the largest interplanetary rover ever launched, which will investigate Mars’s potential to support life.

36. Invested Heavily in Renewable Technology: As part of the 2009 stimulus, invested $90 billion, more than any previous administration, in research on smart grids, energy efficiency, electric cars, renewable electricity generation, cleaner coal, and biofuels.

37. Crafting Next-Generation School Tests: Devoted $330 million in stimulus money to pay two consortia of states and universities to create competing versions of new K-12 student performance tests based on latest psychometric research. New tests could transform the learning environment in vast majority of public school classrooms beginning in 2014.

38. Cracked Down on Bad For-Profit Colleges: In effort to fight predatory practices of some for-profit colleges, Department of Education issued “gainful employment” regulations in 2011 cutting off commercially focused schools from federal student aid funding if more than 35 percent of former students aren’t paying off their loans and/or if the average former student spends more than 12 percent of his or her total earnings servicing student loans.

39. Improved School Nutrition: In coordination with Michelle Obama, signed Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act in 2010 mandating $4.5 billion spending boost and higher nutritional and health standards for school lunches. New rules based on the law, released in January, double the amount of fruits and vegetables and require only whole grains in food served to students.

40. Expanded Hate Crimes Protections: Signed Hate Crimes Prevention Act (2009), which expands existing hate crime protections to include crimes based on a victim’s sexual orientation, gender, or disability, in addition to race, color, religion, or national origin.

41. Avoided Scandal: As of November 2011, served longer than any president in decades without a scandal, as measured by the appearance of the word “scandal” (or lack thereof) on the front page of the Washington Post.

42. Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill: Though lacking statutory power to compel British Petroleum to act, used moral authority of his office to convince oil company to agree in 2010 to a $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; $6.5 billion already paid out without lawsuits. By comparison, it took nearly two decades for plaintiffs in the Exxon ValdezAlaska oil spill case to receive $1.3 billion.

43. Created Recovery.gov: Web site run by independent board of inspectors general looking for fraud and abuse in stimulus spending, provides public with detailed information on every contract funded by $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Thanks partly to this transparency, board has uncovered very little fraud, and Web site has become national model: “The stimulus has done more to promote transparency at almost all levels of government than any piece of legislation in recent memory,” reports Governing magazine.

44. Pushed Broadband Coverage: Proposed and obtained in 2011 Federal Communications Commission approval for a shift of $8 billion in subsidies away from landlines and toward broadband Internet for lower-income rural families.

45. Expanded Health Coverage for Children: Signed 2009 Children’s Health Insurance Authorization Act, which allows the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to cover health care for 4 million more children, paid for by a tax increase on tobacco products.

46. Recognized the Dangers of Carbon Dioxide: In 2009, EPA declared carbon dioxide a pollutant, allowing the agency to regulate its production.

47. Expanded Stem Cell Research: In 2009, eliminated the Bush-era restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, which shows promise in treating spinal injuries, among many other areas.

48. Provided Payment to Wronged Minority Farmers: In 2009, signed Claims Resolution Act, which provided $4.6 billion in funding for a legal settlement with black and Native American farmers who the government cheated out of loans and natural resource royalties in years past.

49. Helped South Sudan Declare Independence: Helped South Sudan Declare Independence: Appointed two envoys to Sudan and personally attended a special UN meeting on the area. Through U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, helped negotiate a peaceful split in 2011.

50. Killed the F-22: In 2009, ended further purchases of Lockheed Martin single-seat, twin-engine, fighter aircraft, which cost $358 million apiece. Though the military had 187 built, the plane has never flown a single combat mission. Eliminating it saved $4 billion.

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Now this idiot is showing the world why Nigeria is not progressing. We have some of the most intelligent and educated people in the world, but we are far behind our peers in infrastructural, social, and economic development. While people around the world are interpreting reality, a Nigerian tabloid is publishing a lunatic's analysis of Obama's presidency in the name of "faith." In a country with so many smart men and women, these type of individuals dominate the news. A pity!

Did you have the chance to read all of that ? But you never had a chance to read his accomplishments in just one term as American President. Specifically, you did not read what he did to ensure every member of his 300 million American citizen have free medical coverage, nor were you able to read that he was able to shake the root of U.S economy and to sanitize that critical economic financial institution to ensure most crooks within it were slammed with sanctions as required by the nations constitution . If I was you , my priority will be to join fellow citizens and fight for a change to benefit Nigeria citizens cought in the quagmire of ruthless and fraudlent administration that have made our nation a paria and laughing stock to the rest of developing nations . Obama have been the talk of the whole universe and one among giants to elevate the blackman. Africans are known for respect and courtesy no matter who they meet. If your categorization meant anything , it is one of Obama's essential quality and success to maintain respect and humility with hard work . I wish he was born and be our leader in Nigeria . Surprisingly , this was a major part of my thoughts early on bed this morning before I read your inept OPINION

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It is stunning that this opinion was expressed by a man who said he was a minister. How can Nigeria progress with people who reason this way at the helm of the affairs?

What Mr Fani-Kayode finds wrong with President Obama is his belief that Obama is a moslem. He emphasizes this by writing President Barack Hussein Obama. He was disturbed that President Obama opted for a peaceful policy with the Arab world instead of destroying Iran and Syria. What such policy does is heighten anti-Americanism in the moslem and Arab world. A president is not powerful because he attacks people of different religions or ethnicity. And our former Aviation minister did not tell us what he understands as Anti-Christ.

For Mr Fani-Kayode, a US president should present himself as a God before an Arab king, to do otherwise, would be seen as denigrating. An American president who observes certain protocol before a moslem ruler becomes an Anti-Christ, according to the former Aviation minister of Nigeria. Well, in 2004, during a G-8 summit in France, our then President, Olusegun Obasanjo, shook 2 hands with president Chirac of France, and genuflected before him. Maybe Mr Fani-Kayode did not notice it becaus both presidents were Christians.

It is incomprehensible that a minister from a multi-religious country like Nigeria would habour such ill-feelings against the moslems, and is instrumentalising religion in an attack against the president of another country. More disturbing, though, is that this was a former Aviation Minister - the man who supervised the charter of foreign aircraft used to airlift millions of Nigerians going on pilgrimage to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, the country Fani-Kayode deems to be the bastion of Anti-Christ. The minister enriched himself from the business of chartering aircraft from foreign airlines. Under him, the Nigerian airline industry collapsed; and of course the Nigeria Virgin Atlantic he floated with Obsanjo, using Richard Branson as a frontman collapsed later, as well.

He expects Obama to put aside the huge problems facing his fellow Americans and fix Africa's problems - combat Boko Haram, pour US aids to Africa, while Nigerian politicians are looting the country's resources as though they were foreigners.

If the former minister had Africa at heart, as he wanted to portray himself to, what effort did he make to advance airline industry within the continent? What legacy did he leave behind?

So the floods that swept most parts of Nigeria this year have to do with the Anti-Christs in the affected regions? The Sunami in Asia, the earth quake in Haiti, all these natural disasters have Anti-Christ connotations! Now I understand why Obasanjo chose Mr Fani-Kayodeyou as his Aviation minister. He loves people with high IQ like Mr Kayode!

Femi Fani-Kayode, you are well-known for always blabbing. What is the sense in this write up? You are scared of anti-christ but fail to imbibe the actions that will ensure you get raptured when the trumpets sounds and not get caught up in the great tribulation. I hope you are bury your empty head in shame now that Obama has been re-elected. It is unacceptable to support gay marriages, legalize abortion but in Nigeria where you served as a minister, it is acceptable to kill, loot, and destroy the country’s facilities? Please hide your ignorance behind your laptop and stop showing the world why Nigeria is worse off than it was in the year 2000. Nigeria is in a sorry state because she has always had obtuse people like you in the helm of affairs.

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i think ajay and his accurate well researched comments deserves his own tv show . Well done Sir ,you are a knight of the realm .

People now adays have no common sense this womman or man clearly has a good point here but you dumb ignorant U.S citizens who doesnt know what is going on in your own country but yet you have time to comment stupid insulting comments to someone actually doing research. and BtW This is her opinion so it shouldnt effect you. I completely agree with this Woman/man Because Myself hAVE DONE RESAERCH my self and this adds up to all my suspicions of Obama so Thanks

Writer, I am Nigerian, I know President OBAMA, I have met him or welcomed him as part of crowd more than 8times(5 last week). I know his wife. I am Nigerian by birth and an American by law. Writer, once more, I know Nigerians, you are not one.

This is the most pathetic and idiotic response I have read. When will we as Africans learn to be less concrete and absolute. We replace one set of rituals and fetish with another and call it religion - in the name of Christianity. Shame on you for being so unaware. Perhaps you are member of the KKK

When as Africans will we be preoccupied with the right things,theft of our natural resources and wealth.When do we cease to be the " wretched of the earth".

IT is the Lord that worn the election for OBma, IF HAD DECLARES that he is a muislim,by the news I saw on TV, he will not be where he isnow, so let us pray forhim for next 4 years and that GOD will lead him, so that nigeria will be lead by GOD period.

Wow! For a second let us just "pretend" that all he said in the article is right.....up until you get to the last paragraph. Sorry but that last paragraph just made you sound like a very very ignorant person, and unfortunately made all your previous points invalid. Feel free to read his health care bill and EDUCATE yourself! oh naija! I love you but we really need to get rid of our uneducated leaders.

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"Femi Fani-Kayode is a former Minister of Aviation"

This is why I am reluctant to take internal flights when I visit Nigeria.

PRESIDENT OBAMA WON AND HE WON BIG BECAUSE GOD ALMIGHTY HAS APPOINTED HIM. I do not know what bible you are reading and what do you know about America? You are a disgrace to our Christian faith. I will pray for you. From your writing, I know you have been listening to FOX TV. PRESIDENT OBAMA CAN BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD! Get over it mister Christian.

Jide, how can a son of Oduduwa be so stupid? Oriokpe Abi? How can you call me (an Ijaw man) a member of the kkk? Please do not make me angry.

He is right about President Bush. President George Bush did so much for Africa, and we were expecting the son of Africa to do more but nothing has come from him. It is disappointing. I know that America has their problems now, but Obama has to come up with a comprehesive development plan for Africa for the sake of posterity. Just like America helped the development of Europe after the war, they have to help Africa and this is the time.

While You were bust thinking as a journalist, president Obama was busy clearing his political parts.Besides,he is a muslim originated and he knows and respects their traditions.He has taken up another four years which means Americans not only accepted but also appreciated him.Who bless no man curse and that is the position.

While You were bust thinking as a journalist, president Obama was busy clearing his political parts.Besides,he is a muslim originated and he knows and respects their traditions.He has taken up another four years which means Americans not only accepted but also appreciated him.Who God bless no man curse and that is the position.

Since you deleted my initial posting, let me try again. We just read from a so called educated Nigerian, one of the most IDIOTIC write ups. I am ashamed to say that Nigerians and Africans are OBLIVIOUS to international and world politics. To sumarize it, I AM ASHAMED TO BE CALLED A NIGERIAN. VERY SAD INDEED.

Am much as people are willing to ignore this msg the last paragraph is the most important part of the piece it would do chritains a great deal to go bak n check n it and anyone else interested, he may ve deceived us cause of his color but we all need to sit and ponder

By Femi Fani-Kayode, 5 November 2012

I CAME BACK TO READ THIS ARTICLE AGAIN, and AGAIN. Still cannot believe a Nigerian, an African, a black man wrote this peice of GARBAGE. Go ahead kayode, make oduduwa proud. WHAT A WASTE OF EDUCATION!

Anti-Arab sentiment has beclouded Kayode's reasoning. Anything Islam is under shackles in the USA and its satellite state, Israel which since its creation in 1948 has pursued a Hitler-styled execution and systematic extermination of its Arab neighbours. And the ant-Christ? Kayode has chosen to cover up those that killed Jesus Christ and, are still waiting for his return to kill him again. They are not Arabs or Muslims.

Typical of Femi, anti-north and anti-islam, one wonders what is 2 b gained by reading such myopic articles? If saudi Arabia has abysmal human rights policies and is not a deomcracy, then how come they have regular electricity, roads, healthcare, security, food security, housing, education ...etc which Nigeria, a so-called democracy, cannot provide? Abi na ur brand of dissmal democracy we go chop? It seems despite ur Ivy League credentials, u r still a regular dunce. Why? Showing a huge amount of respect to a senior leader of another country does not qualify one as the anti-christ, that is if u r aware of what the anti-christ is, which I am not sure u know. Since Obama came 2 power, what has he done 4 Islam 2 warrantee such accusation? Palestine/Israeli conflict, drone attacks in muslim countries, destruction of whole muslim countries(Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and now Syria and later Iran)has worsened and nothing but hype 4 Africa. Is this ant-christ or ant-muslim?

Uhh....RFID "chips" are worn on bracelets and attached to charts and medical devices, not implanted into someone's body. People do implant chips into their pets (dogs and cats) for locating when lost, but we aren't using the technology for people, other than ankle bracelets for criminals on house arrest.

Perceptions define an individual's reality, but not everyone's reality. One point of view of an object does not create the entire object. History (his-story) can't even tell us what really happened to all involved.

Fear is the opposite of Faith!

If that is your real name, and you are who you say you are, then you must be the most misinformed person, or there is another name I have for it, but I don't think they would print it. Is that how your Bible described the Anti-Christ?

Rubbish...One would think a pastor would have more things to do than to posit ridiculous assertions, absolute nonsense.

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I agree with Mr.Alula*s article because your statement has looking arguments in both positive and negative sides.As to me this type of arguments are attracting those different parts and by giving chances to see even their problem. Impact the county is in fair infrastructural and social services (education, and health facility) with bit lagging behind in building democratic institutions and practices. But Ethiopia has coming with real opportunity to escape from poverty track and joining the middle income so we don't have to deny this reality in the ground. still Ethiopia have to go lot for every sectoral changes and fairness for all citizens. for any how now we have opportunity and threat whether PM Meles is in day to day activity/ capacity or incapacitated to his power.I think it our normal track that we have to jump on it, accordingly.

Great analysis Mr. Iyasu! ... I'd like to add on the point where you said: "The next Prime Minister of Ethiopia should take this ... golden opportunity to view the private sector as a true partner in national economic growth and not an entity to be feared and stymied."

The next PM also has a choice of two ideologies: To continue with the current PM's communist ideology that is proven to fail so many times - as witnessed in Russia, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Tunisia, ...etc. And, the other choice is a Democratic ideology that will put the power in the hands of the people and always worked. Had the next PM choose to pick the former, it's simply a matter of time until the next civil war or civil unrest erupts... it's like one-step forward, two-steps back.

The road to Democratic governance and society not only works, but also puts next PM's name in the book of "The Greatest Leaders of 21st century" - as in the case with Mandela! ... so, I hope, the next PM would put his personal interest aside, completely abandon the current path - and, make the difficult, but viable choice for the future of Ethiopia and its people.

You also said, “There are more middle income families in Ethiopia today than at any other time in its history. Manufacturing and agribusiness productivity are the highest they have ever been. Ethiopia exports more goods than ever before, led by coffee and soon to be superseded by electric power.” So, I would like to dispute the widely exaggerated economic growth record - that is always reported of Ethiopia. For the following reasons:

1. It’s a bit misleading when you said, “There are more middle income families in Ethiopia today than at any other time in its history.. “, and not actually confirm that there’re more middle income than low-income Ethiopians. Of course, the middle income family will grow. The real question is: by how many percent did it grow? And, what you meant by middle income for Ethiopia standard? … the abject poverty is more prevalent in Ethiopia today than ever. The wealth gap is wider than anyone ever can imagine. 2. Ethiopia might export more goods today. But, the real question is: how many people control the exports that really make a major difference in the economy? … if the major exports are controlled by hand full of people, what benefit the majority of people get out of this??? 3. I guess my objection to the economic growth is that – no one ever looked under the hood of this “8.9 percent” economic growth, nor there is a mechanism to question “who are the people behind” this economic growth. It’s also important to learn that even coffee export today is controlled by EPRDF run businesses (I will be happy to be punished, if I’m wrong about this. Yet, this curious questions comes from the lack of institutes who’re meant to investigates this kind of questions)

If you ask me, economic growth, for countries like Ethiopia, who's a major air recipient (or, dependent) country in the world, starts with the government being able to feed its own people first or being food secure. Followed by lowering the national debt. Otherwise, it begs the question: Where the Aid money go? Are we counting the Aid money towards the economic growth? (it's like, buying a $500 shoes using your student loan (grant) and portraying the wrong (rich man) impression about yourself)

Dear ALULA ALEX IYASU

Though I don’t agree with the initial premises of this article, I will just present my comments as follows. As Ethiopians we have had our crises and I think we had enough of them. We cannot at this stage wish for crises. We need to move forward and for that we need to think things thoroughly as Ethiopians , in our own historical political, economic etc context. I think it is time we stopped using the Western designed prescriptions highlighted in your article. Not only Ethiopia but the whole of Africa and the developing world is tired of it. Lets face the truth everybody has their own agenda. The West, China and we Ethiopians or the developing world we all have our agendas . The point is choosing the win win situation. The West try to force their ways on us (developing world) and also expect us to open our doors. China has their own future agenda but they come with open arms. Actually the West should learn from China before loosing out on opportunities in developing nations. As to democracy and democratic institutes, I would say lets have it all in our own pace and our own processes. There are a lot of actors in building democracy and democratic institutions. It is the typical concept to blame the government and forget the other actors involved in the process. Lets forget the usual tactics in addressing this issue and ask questions like are all political organizations and parties in the country ready for the democratic process? Do they all have at least the basic understandings of the principles and processes in building democracy and democratic institutions ? I doubt . But this is normal for a country like Ethiopia. Because we are at an early stage.But, yes we need to progress and all those that are involved from within the country and the international community should play their roles prudently. And I think the saying that all politics is local is very superficial.

Dear ALULA ALEX IYASU

Though I don’t agree with the initial premises of this article, I will just present my comments as follows. As Ethiopians we have had our crises and I think we had enough of them. We cannot at this stage wish for crises. We need to move forward and for that we need to think things thoroughly as Ethiopians , in our own historical political, economic etc context. I think it is time we stopped using the Western designed prescriptions highlighted in your article. Not only Ethiopia but the whole of Africa and the developing world is tired of it. Lets face the truth everybody has their own agenda. The West, China and we Ethiopians or the developing world we all have our agendas . The point is choosing the win win situation. The West try to force their ways on us (developing world) and also expect us to open our doors. China has their own future agenda but they come with open arms. Actually the West should learn from China before loosing out on opportunities in developing nations. As to democracy and democratic institutes, I would say lets have it all in our own pace and our own processes. There are a lot of actors in building democracy and democratic institutions. It is the typical concept to blame the government and forget the other actors involved in the process. Lets forget the usual tactics in addressing this issue and ask questions like are all political organizations and parties in the country ready for the democratic process? Do they all have at least the basic understandings of the principles and processes in building democracy and democratic institutions ? I doubt . But this is normal for a country like Ethiopia. Because we are at an early stage.But, yes we need to progress and all those that are involved from within the country and the international community should play their roles prudently. And I think the saying that all politics is local is very superficial.

Dear Alula: I have the atmost appreciation for you! Ethiopia following the democratic path is a must inlight of the size of our population and the wide spread prevalence of poverty! If Ethiopia follows otherwise,then we must assure ourselves of looming domsday which will impact all East Africa. Thank you sir!

I like your idea sir but I have some queations, How could the man that is in conflict with himself can do things. Our preminister has been following the strategies of dividing peoples by ethinicity,religion,state and colour upto the extent of a man with himself.Nowady all the people of Ethiopia is like empty vessil I think you know how much difficult is to correct when people live with out vision and hope.We are like the sheep with out sheepered, We are fuggitive in our own land,We are allways in draught while we have Millions of hectar fertile land. Even at this moment we don't know what to do at this critical time.

Dear Alula thanks for your insightful presentation. Having said this I would like to express my doubt over some of your prescriptions. I am among those who are sympathetic to the regime economic policy. To what extent the model you are advising conform with or act against the economic policy that has brought the nearly double digit growth for the last eight years. We have 85 million population of whom 83% live in rural areas. Most of this live in abject poverty and hence as the regime defined it the number one priority of our country need to be economic development that is inclusive. I think every other goals needs to be seen in light of this. I do not think there will be so much disagreement up to this point.However, the question is does democratic system allows the continuation of this more or less broad based economic growth (one can look UNDP`s human development index)? I suspect it does not at least in the short term. With the initiation of the democratization process you will have the secession issue over ogaden and oromia. And I have no confidence in the capacity of Ethiopians to resolve our differences through dialogue within the framework of democratic Ethiopia. Thus for me democratization at this stage is an invitation to short term political instability which may degenerate into civil war. What appears to be best at this stage is political and economic inclusion of various ethnic elites which does not necessarily mean democratization. The literature on democracy-conflict linkage has well identified that semidemocracy are prone to instability and it will not be difficult to imagine the time it takes us to be a full-fledged democracy. However, I agree with your widening of the meaning of democracy. I prefer to replace it with good governance which does not necessarily presume electoral change of power.At this stage what is needed is guarding the system so that it will not degenerate into institutionalized form of corruption. Moreover, a little bit liberalizing the political space may also merit. Plus the politically motivated arrest (if it is right) needed to be stopped soon.

First, I don't think that neither the PM nor the government see the private sector as something to be feared or stymied. If my memory serves me right he mentioned that whether real or perceived SSA is feared by the private sector and hence the private sector require either high return or the government to assume the risk. If the government assumed the risk it is not fair the benefit accrue to some guy. That is the point the ownership should be with the government. Second the government is trying to attract whatever FDI it can, it seems that the Chinese investors are willing to take some risk compared to others. The government provides loans through its banks for manufacturing FDI (companies from Turkey are using that incentive). But if the Chinese are more willing to take the risk I don't see any reason why the government would say oh we are having investment from china only let's see investment from other countries. As true as it is there is little the government can do about the FDI. At the moment Chinese and Turkish companies are more willing to move to Ethiopia. About democracy helping in changing the perception of companies from else where it could be true but I don't know how Ghana by far the better country is doing. I know Ghana is experiencing some oil boom but I don't know if the democracy the try to build has improved investment flow for the west. But my hunch is the investor perception is pegged little on democracy than opportunity and risk. Lack of democracy has not prevented most being companies from the west from moving to China. If Ethiopia manage to sell itself as a country with real opportunity and stable, the investment flow would follow despite lack of democracy. I am not arguing for dictatorship but I don't see democracy as a precondition for growth and development. Besides, democracy has been reversed take Mali. Just saying

I think most of u guys are not currently living in Ethiopia,why do u forgot to mention high inflation in the country,which has never been seen in the history of the country which is also currently the big..big... major problem of this country.How it is possible to think about growth in the expense of poor people let alone democracy? We r all happy to listen the news of two digit growth like any other Ethiopians....but where is this growth going!It doesn't seems trickle down to the majority of poor((90%).poor people are going to be more poor...due to high inflation. I am not an economist but i can only understand growth if it improves the living condition of the poor citizens, the other is just simply a number that politician is talking about.

It’s quite disheartening to read some comment here that advocates: “Development first, Democracy later!” slogan. It’s true the economic growth in Ethiopia is encouraging, but the question always remains: at what cost? Is Chinese method of economic development sustainable? Is centrally controlled economy or one-party run business - the best way for Ethiopia’s future? …. Let’s fast forward 100 years from today, would you like to see an Ethiopian child snatched out of a mother’s womb – just because she decided to have more than one child? If you’re ok with it, would like that committed against your wife or unborn-child or your sister’s unborn-child? … Would you like to wear a $500 snicker – that’s made by UNJUSTLY imprison young Ethiopian boy – who’s accused of “terrorist act” by the Communist EPRDF Party. Is that the dream you have for “Developed Ethiopia”? If you’re curious, those cheap “Made in China” toys you see in every store are manufactured – in prison, by people who’ve no idea why they are in jail – for 50 cents per piece and sold 100 times more than that. Is this the kind of injustice - what you’re willing to shrug off your shoulder today – for Ethiopia’s future generation?

Now, this is what ‘expert wannabe’s’ here advocate for future of Ethiopia. If you build Ethiopia’s economy with China’s model, you’ll get China. A country with 5000 years of civilization and still lagging behind by 90 countries in GDP Per Capita income. And now, let’s look at U.S.: it’s ONLY 200 years old and I don’t need to say more.

We’d an economy controlled by central government – during the Derg era. Isn’t this a time to try something new or grow our economy using the West method? … Derg killed, marginalized, tortured and massacred minority groups, controlled the media, banks, telecom and businesses: the result was civil war. The same method and strategy Derg has used is being applied today - under EPRDF’s control - for the last 21 years. Don’t we have minority ethnic groups fighting the government today? Why else these minorities straggle, if not for freedom, liberty and human dignity? …. Yet, as the author of this article (Mr. Iyasu) indicated, “the 8.9 percent … economic turn-around is testament to the creativity and resolve of the Ethiopian entrepreneur”, not the regimes.

IT’S TIME TO STOP THE IGNORANT AND NONESENSE MESSAGE OF: “DEVELOPMENT FRIST, DEMOCRACY LATER”… A ‘SUSTAINABLE’ DEVELOPMENT CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED WITH A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNENCE. YOU CAN TEMPORARLY ACHIEVE SOME FORM OF DEVELOPMENT WITH REPRESSIVE REGIME, BUT IT WILL TAKE A MILLION YEARS TO REACH WHERE WE WANT TO BE, AND IT’S NOT SUSTAINABLE. IT’S TIME TO STOP ADVOCATING – REPRESSION AS AN ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOUR OF THE POWERFUL. AFTER ALL, IN A COUNTRY THAT’S RULED BY AN IRON FIST, NO FREE PRESS AND CIVIL SOCIETY – HOW CAN WE BELIEVE ANYTHING THE DICTATORIAL REGIME SAYS??

mr.Alula perception killing the large majority of poor, minority and voiceless marginalized people. Why, b/c bringing some particular cadres' and ethnic groups to the middle class take time in the absence of democracy. they use every chance to become a middle man while at the same time the vulnerable groups are dying and dying,finally they will extinct. the are still using political instrument to fit survival. for more clarity see BBC documentary film. how politics favour the fits for survival on the fate of the poor.

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Well, the Malawian dictator has kicked the bucket. So perhaps people should not count TB out.

Some people are just pathetic and useless!Just because the late President showed your uncles and toothless grannies the middle finger,you call him a dictator?How I wish he jailed that Dyet demon!A few years ago you were singing praises because you thought Malawi was to continue being your oversea province!Satanists!Your confused heads are so full of neo-colonisation that you are celebrating the death of another man.Greedy satanists!

Dictators are not mourned but their deaths a celebration as good riddance to bad rubbish. What IS remembered and mourned however are those who at the hands of those dictators were maimed, victimized and bullied into submission and made into refugees,and those of their countrymen they killed without blinking an eye. Those who mourn dictators do so only for the fear of the loss of all the ill-gotten gains attained though corruption and nepotism.

Thanks to the effort of the private security company.his effort must not go unrewarded.this will encourage others like him to be carefully alart while on duty.this should also be awake up call to other security agencies including nigerian security agency.

D victim should be delt with if possible she has 2 die so dat odas lk her wil learn.she should not 4 any reason b allowd 2 escape bcus if eventualy she dose,d lif of d poor security officer wil b in grt danger and dis wil discourage anybody 4rm takn such a risk.

could u imagine, even a woman can be so brave to kill and destroy. Where are our mothers? Is her mother aware of this mission? Hmmmm, may God deliver us.

The editor who allowed this peculative trash as 'story' deserves to be shown the door. I can't believe that a newspaper like Champion would allow this. Inredible.

She shld be sentence 2 death by hangin 4 atempted murda.d world is turnin 2 sometin else,a woman dats suppose 2 be a nation builda is in2 terrorism?God help us

i appreciate the Govt. For their attempts in standardise security level,but I think they should not be publicising their plans and they shoul not be expressing hw they caught any member of de sect, so that those devils cannot knw the Govt.'s weak point.

D lady should not be killed now, she shld be allowed 2 confess and reveal d secret of her group b4 any judgement be passed on her. May God hlp us

NIGERIA PRESIDENT IS NOT CONNECTED WITH HIS PEOPLE. I AM AN AFRICAN WOMON I STAY IN NIGERIA FOR 7 MONTHS IN 2007 AND I TRAVELLED TO KNANOO FIRST I SAW A LOT OF THINGS THE PEOPLE THEY ARE POOR AND ILLITRATE AND I GO TO EMIR HOUSE I CRY FOR NIGERIA BECAUSE I SAW NAKED CHILDREN THEY ARE NOT GOING TO SCHOOL I CRY AND I TOLD TO MY SON IF THE PEOPLE THEY FOLLOW THE EMIR OF KANOO IS NAKED EVERYTHING IS FINISHED. BECAUSE THE EMIR IS GOING TO DUBAI TO SAUDI ARABIA BRINGINGIN MONEY FOR HIS PEOPLE BUT HE IS NOT GIVING THEM THEY ARE HUNGRY I TOLD TO MY SON A HUNGRY MAN ONE DAY IT WILL BE ANGRY MAN.

I GO TO KADUNA IS THE SAME ALL THIS BIG POLTICIAN THEY AR NOT CONNECTED WITH THE PEOPLE THEY YOUTH THEM FOR THERE OWN POLTICAL AMBTION THAT IS ALL.

AND WHEN I GO TO ABUJA I AM SO DISAPOINTED BECAUSE THER IS NO ANY SECURITY IF YOU HAVE GOOD CARS AND YOU DRESS WELL YOU WILL GO TO ASOROCK TO ANYPLACE BUT IF YOU WONT TO TALK TO SENATE PRESIDENT OR SPEAKER OF THE OR THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTRY AND VICE PRESIDENT IT ISZ NOT POSSIBLE TO SEE THEM ALL THE PEOPLE THEY ARE WORKING WITH THEM THEY ARE TERIREST THEY DONT WONT TO GIVE ANYMESSAGE TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OR VICE PRESIDENT.

BUT THE PRESIDNET VICE PRESIDENT SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE IN THER OFFICE ALL THE CUNCUBINE THEY ARE PARYING IT IS A SHAME FOR AFRICAN LEADER WAKE UP

No one is invicible that can not be caught,the names of these politicians,emirs,bank managers and even the security agents who are sponsoring this sect should be publish to the public.

All those mentioned by these terorrist should be kidnapped and assasinated by SSS. Tahts how the CIA operates in the US. No need takind them to court bcos their boko haram lawyers and judges will set them free.

We request that (negeians) sokotos picture should shown on all TV stations and the sponsors be graphically reveal.

Check out this revelation. Our President Jona-mumu-than should hear this instance, and prove himself to be the true GEJ that the good citizens of this country put in power, not the clueless, coward we currently are seeing as president. Fellow citizens whether this story is true or false, I believe quite frankly that this is not far from the truth, it is an irresistible material that can inform all of us when, very soon the evil doers begin to account for their deeds, read on and enjoy;

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.”

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 (I

***This interview comes from the book Unveiling Islam/Boko Haram by Blessed Usman, JP.

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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.”

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 (I

***This interview comes from the book Unveiling Islam/Boko Haram by Blessed Usman, JP.

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I would like to comend the SSS for their efforts lately especially the new IGP. You've done well and God will surely see you through in all your efforts. Secondly,I want to beg the govt.not to let all the efforts and sacrifices of the security agents be in vain. ANY person that is involved in boko haram must bedealt with according to our law. And we want the names of the sponsors as mentioned by Sokoto and Qaka published. Thanks

...we pray and hope all these is nothing bout the true.coz corrently we don't no who to trust is it the government or the news poblishers ? God help us all..and insha Allah there will be an end to this and punishment for those behind the suffering of innocent lifes....

Somebody should please forward this comment to mr. President, it could serve a veritable solution to the lingering spate of insecurity in the country. It has been phsycologically with a little bit natural research coupled with history that though, no matter how cold blooded or religeous extrimist some of the notherners can be, this can never be generated to the estent of use of bomb or make of suicide bombing. This heinous and babaric act is without doubt link with and help of their allien counterparts( chardian and Niger) To this effect, mr. President should either diplomatically hold a high case security meeting with the presidents of the two countries and theirafter, order the deportation of these countries citizens, out of Nigeria, for the time frame that will give Nigeria security chiefs, time to restore peace back to these volatile areas. Also, about the security technicality of this country; quiet a number of intelligent nigerians would agree with me that, the security handling of this country lacks some element of intelligent. Prove of; why mention names of arrested terrorist who is still under investigation? Why not make use of other means of transportation to move arrested terrorist like air? In a summary this unit of security, needs to be brushen up. Yours faithfully.

If indeed terrorists from Chad and Niger are among the criminals causing mayhem in Nigeria, this is sufficient reason for Nigeria to invade and annexe the two countries without delay.There is no doubt that if any of the West African countries had the resources and size of Nigeria, they would have taken this action a long time ago.

Effjedi06; Kjrs120;

You two and your other friends are just a bunch of stupid idiots that thrive on speculation and lies. You eat lies, you drink lies and you breath lies. What do you get out of such foolishness? If they are paying you for demonising Zimbabwe and its people then eat that money and eat it good because one day you shall regret having allowed yourself to be used by imperialists.

You are alleging that General Mujuru (our hero; the hero of heroes) was murdered and yet you do not have any evidence to back your charge. The experts who are on the ground are telling you that there was no foul play in the death of General Mujuru but you still insist on the foolish story about being murdered.

If you were leaving this open to all possible scenarios so that investigations can touch all corners, that would have been good but you want to confine your stupid allegations to ZANU-PF as if you have evidence. Why has it NOT occurred to you that if, indeed, General Mujuru was murdered then the first suspect SHOULD be the Boer whose farm Gen. Mujuru was allocated.

Are you two not aware that the Boer former farmer is so bitter and his son has posted many articles expressing their bitterness such that they could do anything to revenge their SO-CALLED "eviction"? You two also have on numerous occasions advocated for the return of land to your kith and keen - the Boers - who for 100 years illegally, satanically, devilishly, evilly and barbarically held on to our land.

What stops you Boers from killing those that have been allocated land under the land reform programme spearheaded by President Mugabe? What will delight you most than to see the death and burial of CHIMURENGA III and its heroes?

You are two foolish buffoons that have no place commenting on issues Zimbabwe because you are a biased and racist lot.

lies more lies, and more stupidity. Rex was murdered just like Josiah and anyone who gets to close to the "BLACK bass" Mugabe...dictators dont tollerate competition lightly. Now we have guns and shots - my my -why waste tax money we are not fools - go and look at the CIO for the answers. You will find them there or in mugabes private desk.

The death of Majuru has been so unbelievably mismanaged. This report talks of his lungs being "pink" and "DNA" having been done proving the body of having been that of Majuru and yet also talks about him being "burned to ashes." So how does a body burned to ashes still have "lungs" in situ to be identified by a pathologist? This is becoming as messy and confusing as that of JF Kennedy's assassination.

takunya_ndebvu, It's great to see you posting on these boards again. Your intelligent and insightful comments have been sorely missed.

Takky - welcome back comrade we have been missing your comments. Been overseas with robbert - shopping in Singapore? You are well versed in my previous comments - maybe you like the other supposed verterans were only 9 wehn the war was on? So you know all about robber muagbe and his fight against Smiths men? Maybe you should know then that Josiah was murdered just like Rex. That is my friend comrade because if you play too close to the fire you get burnt! Literally. Like some of the pro robber comrades who told me to leave Zimbabwe and like the rest who stole my fathers pension and my money. And if you cant read the last time i looked at myself i was still black and have not changed into a white Boer as you insinuate. DS.

takunya, EVERYONE at this moment except YOU, is "speculating" as to the events that led to Majuru's death. Seeing that jeffjedi and I are according to you "idiots speculating," why don't you please explain to all, including the press, pathologists, the rest of the country and his family who are as conjecturing as we are, how Simon Majuru died and could you at the same time assure his family that the charred remains they buried are indeed Majuru as they too must be "idiots speculating?" Come on jackass, go ahead an explain seeing that YOU know exactly what and how he died. You are so full of shit.