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).
Source: Punch
