Dr. Stephen Davis, A Perth-based international adviser, has identified two major Nigerian politicians as sponsors of Boko Haram activities in the country.
Davis had worked in Nigeria in the past with the Archbishop of Canterbury and Head of the Church of England, Justin Welby, to negotiate the release of kidnapped oil industry workers in the Niger Delta.
Speaking on Wednesday in an interview with ABC News, an Australian television station, Davis said he had realised the only way to stop the kidnappings was to stop the sponsors of Boko Haram.
According to him, “That makes it easier in some ways as they can be arrested, but of course the onus of proof is high and many are in opposition, so if the President (Goodluck Jonathan) moves against them, he would be accused of trying to rig the elections due early next year”, he said.
“So I think this will run through to the election unabated. These politicians think that if they win power, they can turn these terrorists off, but this has mutated.
“It’s no longer a case of Muslims purifying by killing off Christians. They are just killing indiscriminately, beheading, disembowelling people – men, women and children and whole villages.
“I would say it’s almost beyond the control of the political sponsors now. Terror groups are linking up in Somalia, southern Sudan, Egypt and we have fairly strong evidence they are talking with ISIS members.
“They will link up with ISIS and Al Shabaab and I think that what we are seeing in that region is the new homeland of radical Islam in the world”, he told his interviewer.
“When confronted by groups with an AK-47 in my face they’d say, ‘you are American, we have to kill you’”, Davis said.
Davis said the longer he stayed in Nigeria, the more it dawned on him the kidnappings would not end.
“It became very clear that if I was able to get 50 girls released, then another group would kidnap 70 or 80 more. So by freeing 50 you were consigning 70 or 80 more to the same fate”, he explained.
Though Davis did not mention names in the ABC interview, former FCT Minister, Nasir El-Rufai has said ex Borno State Governor Ali Modu Sheriff and immediate chief of army staff Lt-Gen Ihejirika are those behind the activities of the dare devil sect in the country.
According to him, “Finally, the truth about BH is coming out. Hopefully, the murderers of General Muhammadu Shuwa, the abductors of the Chibok girls, those truly responsible for the Nyanya bombings, and attempted assassination of General Buhari and Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi will be known”.
“We hope the authorities will take the steps necessary to act on this revelation, and thereby discharge their duty to protect us, the citizens of Nigeria. That is just what it is, a hope”, the former minister posted on his Facebook wall on Thursday.
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