Boko
Harma is a violent Jihadist terrorist
organization which acts as a pressure group based in
the north east of Nigeria. It is an
Islamist movement which strongly
apposes man made laws. It was
founded by Mohammed Yusuf in 2001.
It is a Jihadist group that seeks to establish Sharai law in the
country. The group is known for
attacking Christians and bombing
churches.
This movement,
whose name Boko Haram in the Hausa language, translates as “western education is sinful” this
movement group called Boko Haram has created a lot of
security threat t the federal
government of Nigeria since its formation 2001. in
2011, Boko haram was responsible
for at least 450 killings in Nigeria . Boko Haram was
also reported being responsible for over
620 deaths over the first six (6) months of
2012 in the first few years of
its operations 10,000 people are
reported to have died.THE GROUP IDEOLOGY
Boko Haram was founded as an indigenous Salafist
group, turning itself into a Salafist
Jihadist group in 2009. it opposes that interaction with the western
world is forbidden and also supports opposition to the Muslim establishment
and the government of Nigeria. The group publicly extols its ideology despite
the fact that its founder and former
leader Mohammad Yusuf was himself
a highly educated man who lived
a lavish life and drove
a Mercedes benz car. The members
of the groups do not interact with the
local Muslim population and have carried out assassinations in the past of any one who criticizes it and its
activities, including Muslim claries.
In a 2009 BBC interview, Muhammad Yusuf, then leader
of the group, stated his belief that the
concept of a spherical earth is
contrary to Islamic teaching and should
be rejected, along with Darwinian evolution and the concept of rain originality
from water evaporated by the sun. Before
his death Yusuf reiterated the groups objective of changing the current
education system and rejecting democracy
In the wake of the 2009 crackdown on its members and
the subsequent reemergence, the growing frequency and geographical
range of attacks attributed to Boko Harma had led some
political and religious leaders
in the north to the conclusion that
the group has now expanded beyond its original religious composition to
include not only Islamic militants, but
criminal elements and disgruntled
politicians as well.
ORIGIN
In 1995 the group was said to be operating
under the name Shabaab, Muslim youth organization with Mallam Lawal as the leader when Lawal left to continue his
education, Mohammed Yusuf took
over leadership of the group Yusuf is leadership allegedly opened the group to political influence
and popularity. Yusuf
originally founded the group in the city
of Maidugrui in the year 2002 with the
aim of establishing a Sharia government in Borno State under the
formal governor Ali Modu Sheriff
who was still yet complex that included
a mosque and a school where poor
families from across Nigerian and from
neighboring countries enrolled their
children. The center had ulterior political
goals and soon it was also
working as a
recruiting ground for future
Jihadis to fight the state.,
the group include members who cam from
neighboring Chad and Niger and speak
only Arabic
BEGINNING OF VIOLENCE
The group conducted its operations more or less
peacefully during the first seven (7) years of its existence. That changed in
2009 when Nigerian government launched
as investigation, into the groups
activities following reports that
the group and its members were arming
themselves prior to that the
government reportedly ignored warnings
about the increasingly militant
character of the organization, including that of a military officer
Later, when the government came into action, arrested
in Banchi. The arrest sparked deadly clashes with Nigerian security forces,
which led to the deaths of an estimated 700 people. During the fit with the
security forces, Boko Haram fighters reportedly “used fuel laden motorcycles
and “bows with poison arrows” to attack a police station. The group’s founder
and leader Mohammed Yusuf was killed during
this time while in police custody. It was as a result of the killing of
Yusuf, the group carried out its first terrorist attack in Borno in
January 2011 which resulted in the killing of four (4)
people. And since then, the violence
has only escalated in terms of
both frequency and intensity
TIMELINE OF INCIDENTS
7 September 2010
Bauchi prison break (43)
31 December 2010 December 2010 Abuja attack (44)
22 April 2011
Boko Haram frees 14 prisoners during a jailbreak in Yola, Adamawa State
(45)
29 May 2011 May 2011 Northern Nigerian bombings (46)
16 June 2011 the group claims responsibility for the
2011 abuja police headquarter bombing (47)(48)
26 June 2011bombing attack on a beer garden in
Maiduguri, leaving 25 dead and 12 injured (49)(50)
10 July 2011 bombing at the all Christian fellowship
church in Suleja, Niger State (51)
12 August 2011the university of Maiduguri temporary
closes down its campus citing security concerns (52)
26 August 2011prominent Muslim cleric Liman Bana is
shot dead by Boko Haram (53)
12 August 2011 prominent Muslim cleric Liman Bana is
shot dead by Boko Harma
26 August 2011 Damaturu attacks (48)(55)(56)
4 November 2011december 2011 Nigeria bombing (57)
25 December 2011january 2012 Nigerian attacks (58)
5-6 January 2012 January 2012 Nigerian attacks (58
20 January 2012
January 2012 Kano bombing (59)
28 January 2012
Nigerian army say’s it killed 11 Boko Haram insurgents
8 February 2012
Boko Haram claims responsibility for a suicide bombing at the arm
headquarters in Kaduna (16)
16 February 2012 another prison break staged in
central Nigerian; 119 prisoneer Franco
lamolinarra and Briton Christopher McManus, abducted in 2011 by a splinter
group Boko Haram, both hostages were killed (63)
31 May 2012
during a joint task force raid on a Boko haram den, it was reported that
5 sect members and a German hostage were killed. (54)
3 June 2012 15
church-goers were killed and several injured in a church bombing in Bauchi
state. Boko haram claimed responsibility through spokesperson Abu Qaga (65)
Suicide bombers strike three churches in Kaduna state.
At least 50 people were killed (66)(67)
17 June 2012
130 bodies was found in Plateau State. It is presumed they were killed by Boko
Haram members (68)