Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar III

The leadership of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad lll, has demanded  immediate release of an alleged Boko Haram recruitment officer,  Dr. Mohammed Yunus.

The group claimed Yunus was not a Boko Haram member.

Yunus,  a lecturer with the Kogi State University  was arrested in connection with the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram  by operatives of the State Security Service(SSS) on October 29.

The SSS had arrested the university teacher and four others, parading them as suspected members of the Boko Haram insurgents,  alleging that they were planning to unleash terror on the people of Kogi State.

Yunus was said to be  the “spiritual leader and recruitment coordinator” of a terrorist cell in Kogi State.

However, the JNI in a statement signed by its Secretary-General, Dr. Khalid Aliyu, on Tuesday in Kaduna  noted that  after a thorough investigation by the religious body, it discovered that the said lecturer was not connected with the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

According to the JNI, the lecturer could not have been a member of Boko Haram because those who have been following the trend of the sect knew that  “even ordinary members of the Boko Haram hardly deny their connection to their ideology.”

The JNI  therefore  argued that it would  be doubtful that a whole “spiritual leader and recruitment officer” of the group(Boko Haram) would shed tears publicly while denying any link to that ideology.

It added that it would sound contradictory also that a leader of Boko Haram would still maintain his position as a university lecturer when in fact, the first requisite for one to be a member of the insurgent was to abandon  anything connected with western education(Boko).

-Punch

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