Revealed: what I know about boko haram, Ali modu sheriff opens up links Chadian government

Former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali
Modu Sheriff, has opened up on what he knows
about the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents
currently ravaging states in the northeast and
some other parts of the country, while
disclosing that only the neighbouring Republic
of Chad could help solve the menace.
Sheriff, while speaking in a BBC Hausa Service
magazine programme on Saturday, denied
reports saying that Boko Haram started during
his tenure as governor of Borno State between
2003 and 2011. He revealed that the radical
religious sect actually started in Yobe State in
1992, and that he has been trying to find a
lasting solution to it, including talking to the
Chadian government.
But it would be recalled that when the
#BringBackOurGirls campaigners visited the
Chadian embassy in Abuja recently to find out
the connection between Chad and the Boko
Haram insurgents, the ambassador said that his
government had no connection to the sect.
The ambassador also alleged that if there was
any person that should be held responsible for
it, it should be the Nigerian government which
had repeatedly claimed to know where the
Chibok girls are being kept.
When the ambassador was queried on the
alleged report of the botched ceasefire deal,
which was celebrated across the country and
handled by the Chadian President, Idriss Déby,
and the report that Mr Mahamat Bichara Gnoti,
a close associate of the Chadian president, was
reported to have been apprehended on the
Chadian-Sudan border with 19 SAM2 missiles he
allegedly purchased from the Sudanese army
for Boko Haram terrorists, the ambassador
claimed that he only read about the news on
the pages of newspapers just like other
persons.
But the former governor, who is also at the
centre of a controversy surrounding the
sponsorship of the Boko Haram insurgency,
following claims by an Australian negotiator,
Steven Davis, that he and a former chief of
army staff, General Azubuike Ihejirika, were
allegedly backing the insurgents, said Chad
could help in solving the issue.
He alleged that the Borno State government
was responsible for the orchestrated plot to
frame him up with the Boko Haram sponsorship
allegation in order to defame his character.
Keeping mute on how Chad could possibly help
in solving the problem, Sheriff added that since
he is one of the few politicians that has
benefitted greatly from the kindness of Borno
State, as such he is doing whatever it is to help
solve the insurgency.
“Nothing preoccupies my mind in Nigeria
presently like the return of peace in Borno.
When Borno State was peaceful, there was no
place I cherished to stay in the world like
Maiduguri. I, my friends, my confidants, my
parents and all the schools I attended are in
Maiduguri.
“Therefore, I am more concerned than anybody
in this country, because what Borno State did
for me has not been done to any other
indigene. You know, in Borno State, a governor
has never been re-elected apart from me; in
Borno State, no senator has ever been elected
thrice apart from me. So, Borno people have
done everything for me, and there is no one in
this world that I know other than Chad, which I
think could help Borno,” he said.
So, who will help us beg the government of
Chad to intervene and end this Boko Haram
killings?