BOKO HARAM DARES SSS

•You can only bark,you can’t bite
•Kaduna is next
•Banning ‘okada’ won’t stop us
From NOAH EBIJE, Kaduna
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Members of Boko Haram have put a lie to the claim by the State Security Service (SSS) that it had arrested some members of the fundamentalist group, denying that the arrested member of Kaduna State House of Assembly was of the fold. They (SSS) the group maintained, lack what it takes to check them.

In a message posted on the website, www.yusufislamicbrothers.blogspot.com on July 9, with the heading, “Our strength and support is from the people,” the group claimed they were in the good books of the ordinary people who support them to execute their agenda.

“The Nigerian state and the state security services can only bark, but cannot bite,” the statement mocked.

In another message titled, “Tissues of lies by the Nigerian government, through the State Security Service (SSS),” the sect boasted: “None of our commanders as alleged by the SSS were arrested. All our loyal commanders are at their respective positions and at work as at this moment. The SSS should release all innocent citizens they have arrested and have been parading as our members. They are not our members, including the lawmaker from the Kaduna State House of Assembly who was wrongly arrested and alleged to be our member/financier.”

In reference to reports in security quarters that members of the group are scattered in different camps, the statement boasted that they were well known by the people among whom they live.
“Let it be known that we do not live in camps, we are well known by the local people, we are supported by the local people, the locals love us, the locals support us. The locals will never betray us because they believe in our cause, SSS, we are not far away from you, if you can get us, come for us, we will not relent until we achieve our aim.”
Boko Haram, however, maintained that because the people believe in their cause, they will not betray the group.
The various measures being put up by the government, including the banning of motorcylces in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, the statement said, were not tight enough to stop them from hitting the targets of attack.

The fundamentalists disclosed that they were intent on showing up in Kaduna any time soon to hit different targets, despite efforts to cut them from tying up with other Boko Haram cells around.
Admitting that the SSS had been a problem to accomplishing some of their planned attacks, members of the group however said they would execute their agenda anyhow. They cited the success of their attacks in Bauchi so far as a measure of the damage they could do.

Said the statement: “Despite obstructions to our several operations in Kaduna by the SSS, we are still determined to be guest of the brotherhood members in Kaduna. We have proven our resolve by our two recent attacks of police stations in Bauchi State earlier in the week.

“We may be forced to liberate innocent citizens who are being detained and alleged to be our members, especially the member of the Kaduna State House of Assembly who is under custody under false allegation that he is our member/financier, a man who we do not even share the same religion, beliefs and culture with.”
They threatened: “More attacks on the way! More attacks on the way! More attacks on the way!