At that time also, Sanni Yerima, former governor of Zamfara State was in Sudan for two weeks and underwent indoctrination. He was exposed to all the training camps of Osama Bin Laden, who was my neighbour. In fact, Osama Bin Laden’s office in Sudan was just a few blocks away from our (Nigerian) embassy. No report was made. Our embassy never reported Osama Bin Laden. In addition to having his headquarters in Sudan, Osama Bin Laden also had many firms and industries which he only used as a façade because he was actually using those firms as training camps for Al-Qaeda. Among his trainees were many Nigerians from the North. They would leave Nigeria as if they were going to study but were at the training camps of Osama Bin Laden. I got wind of all these things and told them, but my reports were dismissed. It was a policy of “see nothing, say nothing” because they were working for Muslims. They were not able to draw the line between Arabisation and Islamisation. What Sudan was practising was both Arabisation and Islamisation which led to the breakaway of the South from the North. That was the dangerous part of it which was also my major concern. - Amb. Bola Dada Ambassador Dada rose to the zenith of Nigerias Foreign Ministry so whatever he says must be taken seriously. Sani Yerima is still alive, other Northern Muslim leaders are still with us, let them issue a rebuttal to Dadas assertions, maybe that will make Dada to give us more damning revelations in our best interest. It is an established truth that Osama Bin Laden was the brain behind Al Shabbab which is also a Boko Haram-like group. The damage which Shabbab has visited on Somalia is better imagined than narrated. Even today in the Gambari land, we still have people who use Osamas photograph either as wallpaper or as stickers on their cars! And for the existence of Boko Haram, the Gambari is blaming everybody but themselves. Who is really to blame? Until we start telling ourselves the truth, then I am sorry we wont make any headway!
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:18:55 +0000
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