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Reports have confirmed that the Boko Haram terror
group has executed a chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in
Adamawa state on Monday.
The chairman, Rev. Lawan Andimi, was abducted in the Michika area of
the state early this year, his abductors are said to have demanded a ransom
from the Adamawa state government.
It is not known for a cert if any
negotiations took place between the terrorists and the Adamawa state government
but, all that is history now. Boko Haram commenced its acts of terror in 2009.
The group is known for attacking civilians and security personnel across northern
Nigeria including the targeting of Mosques and markets in Muslim dominated
suburbs. Boko Haram has continued to hold on to over a hundred of the Chibok
girls which it abducted from their school in Chibok Borno state in April 2014. Observers
doubt that the girls are still alive.
Boko Haram which is acclaimed to be the
deadliest terror group in sub-saharan Africa has so far killed over 20, 000
people and displaced millions of others in Nigeria.
The group is said to have around 15, 000 militants
within its ranks, it was founded by Mohammed Yusuf in 2002 and is currently led
by Abubakar Shekau whose death has been announced several times by two Nigerian administrations.
Muhammadu Buhari became President of Nigeria in 2015
with a major promise to bring security to the country by ending the Boko Haram
menace; it is a promise that hasn’t been fulfilled nearly five years later.
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