IGBO WOMAN DECLARED WANTED BY ARMY WITH LINK TO BOKO HARAM SURRENDERS HERSELF



Hours after they were declared wanted, Mrs Aisha Wakil aka Mama Boko Haram, and a lawyer, Ahmed Bolori, yesterday surrendered to the military.

Mama Boko Haram reported at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) in Abuja; Bolori turned up at the Army Headquarters in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, at 10am.

The third person declared wanted with them, Ahmed Salkida, a journalist, said he was also ready to give himself up, but asked for a ticket from the military to facilitate his return home from his Dubai base.

Mama Boko Haram, also a lawyer, said she was not immediately taken in for interrogations when she arrived at the DHQ.

The front desk officers, she said, asked her what she wanted and she told them she was declared wanted yesterday (Sunday). But the officers said they were not aware of such and she asked them to read the newspapers online.

“They told me they will go and read and get back to me,” she said, adding  that a few minutes later, a supervisor entered the reception to collect her passport and told her he would return 10 minutes later.

The spokesman of the Nigerian Army, Sani Usman, confirmed that Mama Boko Haram has submitted herself.

“I have been reliably informed that she has reported at the Defence Headquarters and she has been directed to the Directorate of Military Intelligence,” Usman said.

Before giving herself up, Mama Boko Haram had said she was innocent of the allegation against her.

She said she had told the military what to do to secure the freedom of the Chibok girls but her advice was ignored.
In a statement posted on Facebook by Dr. Emman Shehu of the International Institute of Journalism, Abuja, she said: “I am Aisha Alkali Wakil. I understand that  the military declared me,  Ahmed Silkida and  Ahmed Bolori wanted for having links with Boko Haram. It’s interesting,  now they believe me?
“I know the Boko Haram boys. I have been in the front fighting for peace long before Chibok girls were kidnapped. Nigerian security knows me too well, I’m not shady. Why declare me wanted?
“I have had meetings with the Chief of Army Staff and his people. I told them the way forward, to allow me come with some commanders of Boko Haram and  discuss with them,  but they chose to do things their own way only and never gave considerations to any of my suggestions.

“I  want to inform the Nigerian people of my innocence and make them realise that I am in constant touch with the security personnel and they know where to find me but I wonder why I had to be declared wanted on national news even mentioning my husband’s name alongside.

“This has put my immediate and extended family under a lot of pressure and I do not deserve this from the government.

“Though they may not appreciate all my efforts to proffer peaceful solutions to the menace of Boko Haram, my name should not be dragged to the mud nor my character defamed.”

Bolori said he was well-treated by the army, with a colonel offering him tea.

Reliving his encounter with the army since Sunday night, he said: “I have received several calls  that the Nigerian Army has declared me and two others wanted. What kind of system is that where you will be declared wanted without being informed.

“I don’t know what crime I have committed. Whatever the case, I have contacted  the army to provide a venue and they are yet to respond as expected.

“Sequel to my efforts to reach and report to them, the Nigerian Army asked me to return home and meet them by 10am on Monday (yesterday).

“This was after several unanswered  calls and messages I have sent them. May God grant us peace.”

On arrival at the Army Headquarters, Bolori wrote: “I have signed the visitor’s register since and I am still waiting to be taken in although the army guard doesn’t  have airtime to contact his supervisors.

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Chris Kehinde Nwandu is the Editor In Chief of CKNNEWS || He is a Law graduate and an Alumnus of Lagos State University, Lead City University Ibadan and Nigerian Institute Of Journalism || With over 2 decades practice in Journalism, PR and Advertising, he is a member of several Professional bodies within and outside Nigeria || Member: Institute Of Chartered Arbitrators ( UK ) || Member : Institute of Chartered Mediators And Conciliation || Member : Nigerian Institute Of Public Relations || Member : Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria || Fellow : Institute of Personality Development And Customer Relationship Management || Member and Chairman Board Of Trustees: Guild Of Professional Bloggers of Nigeria

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