New York [RR] CAMEROUN–In addition to communication culled to Republic Reporters has received from multiple sources that say on-the-run Boko-Haram Sect-Fundamentalists leader, Imam Abubakar Shekau said, that President Jonathan is a coward for calling for dialogue while reacting to President Jonathan’s offer for dialogue two days ago. It must be recalled that Jonathan indirectedly labeled Boko Haram as coward, stating that they should come out of hiding and dialogue. “We cannot Dialogue with an entity Without A FACE” the presidency was quoted by Reuters.  

We reported yesterday that Imam Abubakar Shekan currently hiding in Cameroun revealed that Boko Haram receive monthly 10 to 100Millions of Naira from some Northern State governors. In the statement, sect leader labeled Jonathan as a coward stating that: ”He’s lying. He cannot do it,” Shekau said. “If Jonathan does not repent as a Muslim, even if I die myself, Jonathan’s going to see. He’s looking at me like I’m nobody, but he’ll see.” Boko Haram youtube: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oFQQPN_MCz8

[PHOTO: Imam Abubakar Shekan, Jonathan, multiple bombings....]

According to sources, Shekau acknowledged that Boko Haram carried out the January 20 attacks in Kano, Nigeria’s second-largest city that left at least 200 people dead. 

Republic Reporters reported that “Gunmen from the sect armed with explosives and assault rifles, some wearing army and police uniforms, others suicide car bombers, attacked police stations, immigration offices and the local headquarters of Nigeria’ secret police”. 

President Jonathan two days ago called on Boko Haram to identify themselves by opening up for a dialogue. According to Human Rights Watch and other investigative reports, Boko Haram has killed more than 714 people last nine (9) months including Kano bombings that killed scores and injured hundreds most of them security personals. 

In an interview with Reuters at the presidential villa in the capital Abuja, Jonathan said there was no doubt that Boko Haram had links with other jihadist groups outside Nigeria. 

Jonathan said: ““If they (Boko Haram) clearly identify themselves now and say this is the reason why we are resisting, this is the reason why we are confronting government or this is the reason why we destroy some innocent people and their properties … then there will be a basis for dialogue,” said Jonathan. 

“We will dialogue, let us know your problems and we will solve your problem but if they don’t identify themselves, who will you dialogue with?” 

Mr. Jonathan, won April 16, 2011 presidential election that observers said was Nigeria’s cleanest since the end of military rule in 1999, but has been criticized by others as rigged by PDP-ruling party, Jonathan has also been accused of being soft on “dealing with the insurgency in the north using purely military means”, until recently when the government closed the borders with Cameroun, Chad and Niger Republic. 

Jonathan was reported to have pledged in the interview “to bring development to remote, semi-arid corners of the country where high youth unemployment has provided easy recruits for extremists. 

“Military confrontation alone will not eliminate terror attacks,” he said, adding that an “enabling environment for young people to find jobs” was also needed. 

“Our commitment is to make sure our irrigation programs are all revitalized so most of these young people are engaged in productive agriculture and … will not be free for them to recruit,” Jonathan said in an ornate diplomatic meeting room adorned with pictures of Nigeria’s heads of state since independence in 1960. 

“WITHOUT A FACE”: Jonathan said that the Islamist militants do not have a clear public figurehead or negotiable aims, he said.

“If anybody invited Osama bin Laden (to talks), he wouldn’t have appeared … Boko Haram, if you invite them, they will not come. They operate without a face, they operate without a clear identity, so it is difficult to interface with such a group.”

“That is the greatest difference between Boko Haram … and the Niger Delta issue,” he said, flanked by a larger-than-life portrait and Nigeria flags.

Boko Haram, whose name means “western education is sinful,” was formed in 2003 in the remote, northeastern city of Maiduguri. It launched an uprising against the government in 2009 that security forces crushed in days of fighting with the sect that killed around 800 people.

Its leader Mohammed Yusuf was captured and killed by the police while under its custody during purported gun-fire-battles, thusly, triggering vows of revenge from other members of the sect which they now seem to be honoring in attacks on security forces and authority figures.

The group’s members have said they want to impose Sharia law across Nigeria, although Jonathan doubted they had clear aims. “There is no clear thing to say: this is what we want,” he said.

Read full text on this by Opeyemi Adesina 

The Leader of Jama’atu Jama’atu Ahli Sunna lid Da’awati wal Jihad popularly known as Boko Haram, Imam Abubakar Shekau, has tagged President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as a coward to preach dialogue, saying the only way for a possible dialogue with his government is for Jonathan to repent as a Muslim.

Speaking to the world through a video posted on YouTube, shows a still image of Imam Abubakar Shekau sitting on a beige sofa, a Kalashnikov rifle at his back, Shekau said negotiations suggested by President Goodluck Jonathan between the sect and the government will not happen.

He said: “He’s lying. He cannot do it,” Shekau said. “If Jonathan does not repent as a Muslim, even if I die myself, Jonathan’s going to see. He’s looking at me like I’m nobody, but he’ll see.”

In the message, Shekau acknowledged that Boko Haram carried out the January 20 attacks in Kano, Nigeria’s second-largest city that killed at least 185 people.

Gunmen from the sect armed with explosives and assault rifles, some wearing army and police uniforms, others suicide car bombers, attacked police stations, immigration offices and the local headquarters of Nigeria’ secret police.

However, Shekau denied killing civilians in the attack, claiming the sect’s gunmen tried to protect the more than nine million people who live in the important city in Nigeria’s north.

“We’re killing police officers, we’re killing soldiers and other government people who are fighting Allah and Christians who are killing Muslims and talking badly about our Islamic religion,” Shekau said. 

“I am not against anyone, but if Allah asks me to kill someone, I will kill him and I will enjoy killing him like I am killing a chicken,” he said. 

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