APC SENATOR WITH SUSPECTED BOKO HARAM LINKS ATTACKS YOUTH LEADER FOR SPEAKING TRUTH ABOUT NGOSHE
A young Borno man named Samaila Kaigama, president of the Borno South Youth Alliance, told the public last week that the Nigerian military’s “rescue” of 360 Boko Haram captives on June 6 was not a rescue at all. It was a ransom payment. Christian women and children were left behind. Muslims came home.
Christians who returned came home in hijab, forcibly converted. Four infants died in the mountains. Approximately one hundred Christian girls remain in Boko Haram captivity, with an Islamic teacher now appointed to indoctrinate them.
The man attacking him for saying so is Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume of the All Progressives Congress — Tinubu’s own party — who has represented Borno South for the entire Boko Haram era.
That fact alone should give you pause.
The man defending the regime’s version of events on Ngoshe was arrested by Nigeria’s own Department of State Services in 2011 on suspected links to Boko Haram.
That is not allegation. That is federal record.
Here is what the senator said in a Hausa-language WhatsApp voice message circulating in Borno.
“Even this morning, he was still making those claims, trying to make it look as if he was the one responsible for rescuing our people, instead of our soldiers, who were the ones that actually made the effort — especially our brigade commander in Gwoza. So, youths of Gwoza, on all platforms you should come out and issue a disclaimer saying that you do not know anyone by the name of Ibrahim Samaila Kai Gama… He was the one who brought up the idea that five billion should be paid… As far as I am concerned, these are the actions of a 419-type fraudster… Otherwise, I have never heard of bandits or terrorists making demands in naira. I have also never heard of them making demands through some middleman instead of through the Red Cross or international organizations.”
Now let us pick that apart.
One. “I have never heard of bandits or terrorists making demands in naira.” Chibok. Dapchi. Kankara. Kuriga. St. Mary’s. Every Nigerian mass-kidnapping release of the past decade has involved naira ransom. A senior senator from Borno South cannot honestly say he has never heard of this. He said it anyway.
Two. “Through some middleman instead of through the Red Cross.” Every Nigerian terrorist hostage negotiation of the past ten years has gone through Nigerian intermediaries, not the Red Cross. The senator is describing a system that does not exist.
Three. Kaigama is running for Senator Ndume’s Senate seat. The voice message is the senator using his federal platform to silence his electoral rival at the precise moment that rival is contradicting the regime’s preferred narrative.
Four. The truth Kaigama is telling does not depend on Kaigama. Professor Audu Idriss of the University of Maiduguri, a native of Ngoshe, confirmed to Truth Nigeria that most of the returned captives are not from Ngoshe. A Christian cleric in Pulka confirmed that the women returning in hijab were forcibly converted in captivity. The story stands without Kaigama.
Five. The senator credits “our brigade commander in Gwoza” with rescuing the captives. The captives were held three kilometers from a Nigerian military base for months. Either the brigade commander is celebrated for finding what was sitting three kilometers from his own perimeter — or somebody paid for the release and is now laundering it as a rescue.
You decide.
The Christian girls of Ngoshe are still in the mountains. One of them is Annabelle Katala. Annabelle was abducted and was forced to bear a child by her captor. She is still up there. Four infants are in graves on those slopes. And the APC senator with a record of suspected Boko Haram links is on a WhatsApp voice message demanding the youth of Gwoza disavow the man telling the truth.
The truth will come out. It always does.
Pray for Ngoshe. Pray for Annabelle.
EarthShaker
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