JNI calls for release of alleged B’Haram ‘recruitment officer’

The Leadership of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam, led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad lll, has asked for the immediate release of an alleged Boko Haram recruitment officer, Dr. Mohammed Yunus, a lecturer at the Kogi State University. The group argued that the don was not a Boko Haram member. Yunus was by the State Security Service operatives, who claimed that the varsity lecturer was a recruitment officer for the violent Islamic sect. The SSS had arrested the university teacher and four others, parading them as suspected members of the Boko Haram insurgent, alleging they were planning to unleashed terror on the people of Kogi State. Yunus was said to be the “spiritual leader and recruitment coordinator” of a terrorist cell in Kogi state. However, the JNI in a statement by its Secretary-General, Dr. Khalid Aliyu, on Tuesday in Kaduna noted that after a thorough investigation by the religious body, it discovered that the said lecturer had no connection with the dreaded Islamic sect. The JNI believed that “even ordinary members of the Boko Haram hardly deny their connection to their ideology.” The JNI argued that it would be doubtful that a whole “spiritual leader and recruitment officer” of the group would shed tears publicly while denying any link to the sect.