The State Security Service, SSS, has
arrested a graduate of English Literature
from Ahmadu Bello University whose
name is given as Yasir Salihu, and six
other Boko Haram members who
allegedly slained the popular Islamic
cleric, Sheik Adam Albani, his wife and
son on February 1, 2014 at Gwagwaje area
of Kaduna.
SSS Deputy Director, Public Relations,
Marilyn Ogar, who paraded the suspects
in Abuja, said that Albani was killed for
his pro-western posture and his
preaching which were contrary to the
Boko Haram ideology.
According to Ogar, "Investigation and
confessions by the suspects revealed that
Albani’s pro-western posture and his
preaching are contrary to the Boko Haram
ideology. He was consequently placed on
a surveillance and was tracked to Markaz
Salafiya Centre by Boko Haram members
and killed on February 1 where they
waited for him till the end of his sermon,
trailed and eventually killed him and his
family.”She said their hatred for Sheik
Albani culminated in a meeting by
members of the sect under the leadership
of Abdullahi at Hayin Danmani in Rigasa
area of Kaduna State, where Boko
Haram’s decision-making organ, the
Shura Council, ordered the killing of the
Islamic cleric.
Other sect members arrested were, Yakub
Abdullahi (a.k.a Alhaji Bala or Alhaji Kano
Yakub Bulunkutu), Ibrahim Shuaibu (a.k.a
Kawal Abu Amar), Bilyamin Usman, Sahabi
Ismail, Umar Yasir and Musa Abubakar.
The arrested ABU graduate, who works as
Head of Records/Billing Department,
Horizons Medical Centre in Wuse Zone 6,
Abuja, said he joined the sect in 2009
when he attended a sermon by the late
Boko Haram leader, Mohammed Yusuf, in
Maiduguri.
He and others will be charged to court by
the SSS.
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