NIGERIA: State Security Service (SSS) have charged a senator for funding the radical Islamic sect Boko Haram responsible for carrying out spates of deadly attacks in the country

Record ID: 235364

  • Title: NIGERIA: State Security Service (SSS) have charged a senator for funding the radical Islamic sect Boko Haram responsible for carrying out spates of deadly attacks in the country
  • Date: 23rd November 2011
  • Summary: ABUJA, NIGERIA (NOVEMBER 22, 2011) (REUTERS) STATE SECURITY SERVICES PERSONNEL ARRIVING WITH THE SENATOR ALI NDUME, AT THE COURT EXTERIORS OF COURT ROOM SENATOR ALI NDUME COMING OUT OF THE SECURITY VEHICLE NIGERIA JUSTICE SYMBOL SENATOR ALI NDUME ENTERING COURT ACCOMPANIED BY SECURITY AGENTS SENATOR ALI NDUME IN COURT SENATOR ALI NDUME SITTING BETWEEN SECURITY AGENTS SENATOR ALI NDUME'S HANDS PEOPLE INSIDE THE COURT SENATOR ALI NDUME SEATING BETWEEN TWO SECURITY AGENTS PEOPLE INSIDE THE COURTROOM SECURITY AGENTS AT THE COURTROOM SENATOR ALI NDUME ENTERING CAR AND DRIVING AWAY
  • Embargoed: 8th December 2011 12:00
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  • Location: Nigeria, Nigeria
  • Country: Nigeria
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA9IHU6CYGE60J3MMQNBN0B03PK
  • Story Text: Nigeria's State Security Services (SSS) on Tuesday (November 22) charged a senator for working with the Islamic sect Boko Haram responsible for deadly attacks in the country.
    Senator Ali Ndume of Borno state appeared in court in the capital Abuja on two charges of breaching of official trust by disclosing information to unauthorized persons and criminal conduct.
    After the preliminary hearing the judges adjourned the case to be heard on the first week of December after completion of police investigations.
    Security agents said on Monday (November 21) Nigerian politicians were funding members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for dozens of shootings and bombings this year in the north and capital of Africa's most populous nation.
    Boko Haram, whose name translates as "Western education is forbidden", has carried out near daily attacks in the remote northeast in Borno state, where Nigeria borders Cameroon, Niger and Chad.
    Although parts of the sect say they want sharia law more widely applied across Nigeria and threaten international targets, most factions are focused on local issues and carry out politically motivated attacks.
    The SSS, Nigeria's intelligence agency, said they had arrested Ali Sanda Umar Konduga in November 3, who admitted to being one of the spokesmen for Boko Haram, using the name Usman al-Zawahiri.
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