Nigeria: Exclusive - How Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi Was Arrested in Saudi Arabia

12 October 2009

Kaduna — As a climax of the intense doctrinal war and verbal attacks between three of Nigeria's major Islamic groups, Darika, Izala and Shi'ah, that characterized this year's Ramadan preaching (Tafsiir), the renowned Islamic scholar, Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi, was arrested by the Saudi Arabian security officials in Mecca while performing his Umrah (lesser Hajj) this year, LEADERSHIP gathered exclusively.

An eye witness, a Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, revealed that Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi was in the grand mosque of Ka'aba when Saudi security agents came in and took him away.

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