WITHOUT INVESTIGATION, the Department of State Services has absolved the immediate past
Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika (rtd), of claims that
he is a major financier of the Boko Haram sect.
The agency said it was indeed uncharitable and wicked for anyone to associate him with such grave allegation.
DSS
spokesperson, Ms. Marilyn Ogar, who addressed journalists at the
Service’s headquarters in Abuja on Friday, also said the former Borno
State Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff, has been invited for questioning.
An Australian hostage negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davis, had named Ihejirika and Sheriff as some of the sympathizers of the sect.
Ms.
Ogar said: “For us to accept that he is associated with the same sect,
whose activities he, together with this Service, succeeded in bringing
to a halt in Kano, Okene and other places, pursuing them down to the
Sambisa Forest, and to accept that the same man was sponsoring Boko
Haram is wicked and uncharitable.
“We should not allow people to use our liberal nature to perpetrate all sort of evils in our society”.
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