Secret Intelligence Report Links Ex-Governor Sheriff, Chad President To Boko Haram Sponsorship

New facts showing stronger links between former governor of Borno state, Ali Modu Sheriff, and the Boko Haram sect have emerged, further fuelling suggestions the ex-governor is a major financier of the terrorist sect.

Intelligence insights obtained by PREMIUM TIMES in Maiduguri, Damaturu, and Abuja show dated communications between field officers and the velvet ranks of Nigeria’s military chronicling Mr. Sheriff’s involvement in promoting the growth of the sect.

The communications painted a picture of what appears to be a powerful regional support structure involving the Chadian president, Nigerian officials and Niger Republic, and spearheaded by Mr. Sheriff whom the intelligence presents as a powerful figure within this circle.

A SEASON OF SATANIC LETTERS BY DELE MOMODU

Fellow Nigerians, I hope we have all realised that pestilence has entered our land. What is going on at the moment is akin to what happened towards the end of 1988 when Salman Rushdie wrote his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses. By early 1989, the raging inferno had engulfed everywhere and everyone was searching for any available copy.

I remember then as a Staff Writer at the Weekend Concord, how we combed everywhere looking for this book that had caused so much anger and anguish in the Islamic world such that a fatwa had to be pronounced on the author.