BOKO HARAM: Shettima Gave Us Money To Kill Gubio, So He Can Become Governor – Detained suspect

Gov. Shettima

Another report has emerged following  Australian negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davies, fingering a former Borno Governor, Modu Sheriff and the immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika as Boko Haram sponsors. 

The latest high profile name to be added to the list of alleged sponsors of Boko Haram is the Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima. According to a new report from a Magazine, “power Steering,” Governor Shettima is behind the killing of late Alhaji Awana Ngala, former ANPP Chairmann in Borno State, who was tipped to succeed former governor Ali Modu Sheriff as well as Engr. Modu Fannami Gubio, the gubernatorial candidate of the ANPP, who was killed barely one week after he was appointed to succeed Modu Sheriff in the 2011 general election.

The publication which said it had a secret conversation with a detained Boko Haram member, Mustapha Kolo who revealed that there is an existing relationship between the sect and the Borno State governor right from his time as a commissioner, where he served in five ministries before his election as Governor of Borno State. 

Kolo revealed that the governor had been giving them money to further their course and had been meeting with their leaders over targeted assassinations of prominent Borno citizens and politicians, who did not SHARE his own political ideas. “When he (Shettima) was Commissioner, he used to give us plenty money. He even gave us money to kill Fannami Gubio, so he can become governor, but he did not complete his payment; we were following him, he didn’t give us again”. He said. Source: www.today.ng