Boko Haram Online Supporter Remanded: Faces Terrorism Charge.
Category: Boko Haram News
Mallam Ibrahim, a First Class graduate of Mechanical Engineering from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria has been arrested and remanded for promoting the Boko Haram sect online.
An Abuja Federal High Court has ruled that a suspected ‘online’
terrorist, Muktar Ibrahim [aka Abu Sabaya], who supports the activities
of the Boko Haram sect on the Internet, must answer charges of terrorism
brought against him by the Federal Government.
The court
presided over by Justice Gabriel Kolawole, while dismissing a no-case
submission filed by the accused person, ordered that he should be
remanded in prison pending the determination of his case.
The
accused person was described by the prosecution as an online
personality, who was celebrating the bombing campaigns of the Boko Haram
sect on a jihadist website while also soliciting funds from
international terrorists groups to fund the activities of the sect in
Nigeria.
Ibrahim, a First Class graduate of Mechanical
Engineering from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, was said to have
registered his email address – banatsuad1@yahoo.com – on a jihadist
website to post messages on the activities of Boko Haram in the country,
contrary to the provisions of the Terrorism Prevention Act, 2011.
Some of the messages said to have been posted by Ibrahim on the website
in February 2012 read “…is there any way we can help the mujahahiden in
Nigeria by AMEF projects? We are ready to release videos, statement and
other material to support our brothers in Nigeria.”
The Federal
Government said the post was a message preparatory to an act of
terrorism, an offence contrary to section 1[1] [a] of the Terrorism
[Prevention] Act, 2011 and punishable under section 33 [1] [a] of the
same Act.
On or about June 16 2011, Ibrahim was said to have
posted a message that read, “The wind of rage has been unleashed upon
the battalion of the tawaghit and all their allies in Nigeria. In a
successful attack, a severe attack and damage at the heart of the
security apparatus of the Nigerian government, the Muwahhidin, with the
assistance of Allah, were able to deal a great blow to the government
and also to prove to their masters in the White House that our call is
based upon actions rather than speech.
“Many Nigerians were very
happy about the blast because they are frustrated by the tyranny of the
tawaghit and their hijacking of the country’s resources for their
selfish interests.
“This attack is indeed a success because prior to
the attack the Nigerian Police Force on behalf of the Inspector General
of Police Hafiz Ringim, boasted and he vowed that the days of the
Muhahhidin in Nigeria are numbered. Little did he know that the
Muhahhidin are on their way to his palace in Abuja.”
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