Davis, who spoke to an online medium today, insisted that the former Governor of Borno State where the tentacle of Boko Haram is rooted, Senator Ali Modu Sherriff and a former Nigerian Chief of Army staff, General Azubuike Ihejirika (Rtd.) are among those sponsoring the sect.
He called the bluff of Modu Sherriff, who had threatened to go to Australia to sue him, insisting that Modu Sherriff enjoyed the best military protection even when he had led office.
According to the Australian, Boko Haram has about six camps in the North East region with 700 fighters in each of them, with smaller camps in Borno State where kidnapped girls are taken to.
“They are now linking with other terrorist groups in the region and will soon be very difficult to dismantle. If these political sponsors think they can turn these groups off after the 2015 elections, they are going to be surprised to find that it is out of their control. If we don’t do our utmost now to dismantle Boko Haram, then we may not be able to do so for another generation. That is a very gloomy scenario for Nigeria.”
He blamed President Goodluck Jonathan’s inability to act against disloyalty by some military men and negligence as well as corrupt politicians.
“By the time Goodluck Jonathan became president, Boko Haram had become a potent weapon with a command structure embedded in 16 northern states, fanned by support from corrupt politicians.”
Dr. Davis blamed Nigeria’s Minister of Defense, Aliyu Gusau, for not giving Jonathan any good advice on how to curb this insurgence but rather left him to carry out the work alone.
He shed light on how Aminu Ogwuche who allegedly bombed Nyanya bus station lived in the home of a CBN worker who carries out banking transaction for Boko Haram through the CBN, thus making inflow of cash to them legal and untraceable.
He also said that two of the Nyanya bomb blast planners were on the run, while Ogwuche has not been interrogated on his links with the three young men he masterminded the bombing with.
He narrated how the former Nigerian Minister of Transport under President Olusegun Obasanjo, Mr. Abiye Sekibo contracted assassins that killed Harry Marshall, but could not be brought to book by the President who feared that his trial could ruin his government.
He made a very deadly confession on how corrupt former National Security Adviser, Owoye Andrew Azazi planned to buy into the Hilton hotel chain in London to the tune of $100 million before he died in a helicopter crash on December 15, 2012.
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