On July 31, 2010, Boko Haram leader, Yusuf Mohammed was executed bu security agents in Maiduguri. Since then, members of the sect have continued to announce that they meant business by detonating bombs in several parts of Northern Nigeria, especially Maiduguri. The group also claimed responsibility for bombed Louis Edet House, Police Headquarters, Abuja.
To this end, they have vowed to detonate bombs in 7 states across the north including, Borno, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina among others.
For the record, here is an excerpt of the interview he granted a security agent before he was executed:
Officer: We went to your house yesterday and we saw a lot of animals, syringes and materials used for making bombs, what were you keeping all that for?
Yusuf: Like I told you, to protect myself ...
Officer: (Cuts in) ... to protect yourself how? Isn't there the authorities, the law enforcement agencies?
Yusuf: The authorities, the law enforcement agents are the same people fighting me ...
Officer: What did you do?
Yusuf: I don't know what I did ... I am only propagating my religion Islam.
Officer: But I am also a Muslim ...
Yusuf: I don't know why you refuse to accept my own (Islam)
Officer: Why should you say Boko [western education] is Haram (sinful)?
Yusuf: Of course it is Haram
Officer: Why did you say that?
Yusuf: The reasons are so many ...
Officer: The trouser you are wearing ...
Yusuf: (cuts in)...it is pure cotton and cotton belongs to Allah
Officer: But Allah said in the Qur'an iqra (read), that people should seek knowledge...
Yusuf: That's correct, but not the knowledge that contravenes the teachings of Islam. All knowledge that contradicts Islam is prohibited by the Almighty ... sihiri (sorcery or magic) is knowledge, but Allah hath forbidden it; shirk (Polytheism or sharing or associating partners to Allah) is knowledge, but Allah has forbidden it; astronomy is knowledge, but Allah has forbidden it ...
Officer: At your place we found computers, syringes ... are all that no products of knowledge?
Yusuf: They are purely technological things, not Boko ... and westernisation is different.
Officer: How comes you are eating good food – look at you, looking healthy – you are driving good cars, and wearing good clothes while you are forcing your followers to sell their belongings and live mostly on dabino (dates) and water?
Yusuf: That is not true. Everybody is living according to his means. Even you are different. Whoever you see driving good cars is because he can afford them, and whoever you see living in want also means he doesn't have the wherewithal
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