Senator
Ali Ndume representing Borno South Senatorial District at the Nigerian Senate
has reportedly been tied with funding the Islamic terror sect, Boko Haram.
The role allegedly played by Senator Ndume in the death of Major Timothy
Fambiya, who led the operation that led to the death of the leader of the Boko
Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, has also been brought to light. Ndume is currently
standing trial at an Abuja High Court over links with the infamous terrorist
sect. He is accused of providing phone numbers of some government officials to
the members of the Islamic sect.
The Nigerian Airforce in Borno State recently
bombed Senator Ndume’s convoy of vehicles on his way to his village on
suspicion that he was attending a meeting with the insurgents.
Acording to
reports from PointBlankNews, the senator was angered by the deployment of Major
Timothy Fambiya, an indigene of Gwoza in Gwoza Local Government Council of
Borno State to eradicate the sect members and halt their activities in the
area. The area falls within Senator Ndume’s Senatorial District and is
predominantly Christian. Ndume, who happens to be a Muslim, could not come to
terms with a Christian soldier routing a sect he sympathizes with.
He believes
a Christian soldier sent to lead the Government forces against the sect is war
against Muslims. There are many accounts of the circumstances surrounding
Shekau’s death, but he is believed to have been killed in Gwoza Hills by a
contingent of Special Forces led by Major A.T. Fambiya. Fambiya is reckoned to
be one of the best Special Forces officers in the Nigerian military, who grew
up in Gwoza and understood the rocky terrain. Further investigations revealed
that it was Major Fambiya that delivered the fatal shot that sent Shakau
reeling in Gwoza Hills during a fierce battle but the Boko Haram leader did not
die immediately.
He was severally moved to Mali and later Cameroon where he
gave up the ghost. His aides, who sought to create the impression that he was
still alive to sect members, hurriedly buried him. Following Shekau’s death, an
infuriated Senator Ndume had allegedly contracted the second in command to
Major Fambiya, Captain Ibrahim Jamare, to eliminate him. Captain Jamare, who
had briefed the Senator on the circumstances surrounding Shakau’s shooting ,
was allegedly paid N60 million by the Senator to eliminate the major. While on
a return mission to Gwoza Hills still in search of Shekau, Captain Jamare had
shot Major Fambiya at the back of the head while he was observing something
with binoculars. The military had in a brief ceremony at the Nigerian Military
Cemetary in Abuja declared that Major Fambiya was one of the best special
forces officer in Nigeria. “He was killed in action on June 26, 2013 in a
fierce encounter with Boko Haram terrorists”. The Major’s suspicious killing
had prompted his brother Iliya Joshua to call on military authorities to
investigate the circumstances surrounding his death. “We call on the Federal
Government to investigate the rumoured cause of the death of the officers since
it remains a mystery to our family. I made the call because he was supposed to
be at the Army school of artillery. The last time I called him, he said that he
was not part of those people that were going to Maiduguri for this operation.
But later, I was told that he had been killed. He was not supposed to be on
posting to that place,”he said. Over 400 hundred people including women and
children were killed last month in Ngoshe and Atagara by insurgents, who
hoisted a flag at the Gwoza Local Government Area. The insurgents disguised as
soldiers had called the residents to come out to discuss peaceful co-existence
in the area.
Unkonwn to the residents, they were sorroundedv by the insurgents,
who opened fire on them killing all that gathered at the village square, who
were mostly Christians. The burning of residential houses, churches and schools
have continued until a recent deployment of soldiers in the area. Purchase of
400 Golf Cars Security agencies are also working on the lead that Senator Ndume
had purchased 400 Golf cars for insurgents disguised as empowerment for his
constituents. Golf cars have been used in several bomb explosions in Maiduguri,
Yobe, Bauchi, Gombe and Abuja. Further investigations revealed that insurgents
and new recruits were offered a golf car or N500,000.00 to procure the vehicles
themselves by the senator. The recruitment drive is disguised as one of his
constituency empowerment projects. Most of the insurgents are said to have
migrated to Abuja and are now domiciled in Waru and Wasa villages, some
kilometres from the National Assembly Quarters where they wait to be called
upon to carry out car/suicide bombings. National Cordinator of the Joint
Information Centre on Security, Mike Omeri, had at Wednesday’s briefing of the
media on government’s fight against terrorism said government was investigating
some politicians following their links with terrorists. He said some of the
politicians have been arrested. He said the development followed information
provided by insurgents in custody. He maintained that government would not
condone involvement of politicians in security matters involving the nation.

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