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)
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