From: Nowa Omoigui <nowa_o@yahoo.com>
Date: 25 April 2011 07:06
Subject: ||NaijaObserver|| Boko Haram gives conditions for cease-fire
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Boko Haram gives conditions for cease-fire
Monday, 25 April 2011 04:27 Hamza Idris, Maiduguri
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MEMBERS of the Boko Haram sect in Maiduguri yesterday said that insecurity and threats would continue in the country until the current democratic system is abolished. They are also demanding that the Nigerian Constitution should be replaced with Sharia law.
In a three page letter which was written in Arabic and Hausa and issued to newsmen in Maiduguri, the group said it would neither accept amnesty nor enter into any negotiation with the government.
"We are calling on Muslims all over the world, especially those in Nigeria, to understand that we need fairness from everybody because God has commanded us in the Holy Quran to be just in our dealings. We want to reiterate that we are warriors who are carrying out Jihad (religious war) in Nigeria and our struggle is based on the traditions of the holy prophet. We will never accept any system of government apart from the one stipulated by Islam because that is the only way that the Muslims can be liberated. We do not believe in any system of government, be it traditional or orthodox except the Islamic system and that is why we will keep on fighting against democracy, capitalism, socialism and whatever. We will not allow the Nigerian Constitution to replace the laws that have been enshrined in the Holy Qur'an, we will not allow adulterated conventional education (Boko) to replace Islamic teachings. We will not respect the Nigerian government because it
is illegal. We will continue to fight its military and the police because they are not protecting Islam. We do not believe in the Nigerian judicial system and we will fight anyone who assists the government in perpetrating illegalities," the group said.
In the letter, members of the group made it clear that they were not sorry for all the people that have been killed.
"We are not sorry for all the people that we are killing, including ward heads, politicians, police and the army because they are associating themselves with the government by arresting Muslim brothers and sabotaging Islam. We want to make it clear that we are fighting not just because our mosque and centre of learning were destroyed in Maiduguri, or because we were chased out of our houses. The reason we are at war is because our freedom has been curtailed. For time immemorial, we have been advocating for freedom of worship and assembly and the need for everyone to believe in Allah. We have been preaching that people should jettison modern democracy and embrace Islam as their religion," the group added.
The group lamented that while they were carrying out their religious obligation in 2009, they were provoked by the government, which according to them connived with some Imams and ward heads and attacked their members in many states.
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