Boko Haram threatens to attack NLC over subsidy •Asks leadership to resign •We are analysing the genuineness of the letter —NLC •Police station bombed outside Kano •158 Boko Haram suspects arrested •Police engage man in 4-hr shootout in Kano; kill

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

THE Islamic sect, Boko Haram has threatened the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over its perceived role in the fuel subsidy removal issue,

blaming it for only forcing the Federal Government to reduce the price of petrol to N97 per litre rather than a total reversal to N65 as earlier demanded by labour.

A letter purportedly written by the sect was sent to the NLC through e-mail, on Tuesday, threatening the labour leaders to resign. It also threatened to attack the Labour House.

Though the letter was not made available to the media as of press time on Tuesday, a source at the Labour House confirmed to our correspondent that a mail was sent to the NLC by a group by that name.

But the source stated that the leadership of the congress was trying to be sure if the letter really came from the real Boko Haram group or not.

He, however, confirmed that the security operatives had been handed the letter to analyse it and establish its genuineness.

The source also said that the leadership of the congress did not want to make the issue a media one at present until it was fully analysed and confirmed that the sect was responsible for it.

“It is true that we received a mail from a group, which called itself by that name, but the letter is with the security. We are trying to analyse if it is genuine or not. We did not want to make it a media issue until we analyse it,” the source said last night.

Meanwhile, one Uzairu Abba Abdullahi, 32 years-old, a Mass Communications degree holder who allegedly engaged a security officer in a shootout was in the early hours of Tuesday along his wife killed in Hotoro quarters of Kano city.

According to investigation gathered by the Nigerian Tribune, while the security operatives reached his house, the late Uzairu allegedly opened fire in a panic move aimed at scaring the security personnel.

Sensing danger, the operatives returned fire which lasted several minutes and, as a result of cross fire that lasted for hours, Uzairu (32) and his wife lost their lives.

Speaking with reporters, a cousin of the deceased, Alhaji Ali Abdu-llahi, told journalists that it was true that his brother and his wife were killed at their Hotoro residence.

Alhaji Ali said the late Uzairu had been a businessman since he left Bayero University, Kano, in 2002 with a degree in Mass Communications, adding that all efforts to recover his corpse and that of his wife for burial from all hospitals visited were unsuccessful.

However, at the time of filing this report, it was not clear reason for exchange of gun fire between him and the security operatives.

Efforts to get the comment of the police on the issue were unsuccessful, though a source, who preferred anonymity, informed newsmen that the security agencies were allegedly working on information that the deceased was a suspect.

However, Kano State Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Idris, told journalists on Tuesday afternoon that a “sister agency” carried out the attack on the house.

In another development, the police, on Tuesday, showed journalists the explosives used by the Boko Haram sect during its attack in Kano on Friday and acknowledged some gunmen wore uniforms resembling para-military police and soldiers.

The police said they found 10 unexploded car bombs and hundreds of small improvised explosive devices after the attack on Friday.

Meanwhile, security forces arrested 158 suspected members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in an early morning raids in Kano on Tuesday.

Also, a police station on the outskirts of Kano, Feika Police Station, was reportedly bombed.

Though nobody died in the incident, it was reported that a car and two motorcycles were destroyed.

-Tribunewp_posts