- By Michael Egbejumi-David -
When ‘Boko Haram’ bombed the United Nations offices in Abuja late August of 2011, the usual Nigerian government apathy prevailed.  It took the personal intervention of the Saudi Intelligence chief, Prince Mughrin bin Abdul-Aziz who flew to Abuja for a private meeting with President Jonathan before there was some modicum of action.  [/b]Wouldn’t you know, within 36 hours of the Saudi Intelligence boss departure, our government announced the arrest of about 150 Boko Haram sponsors.  How did this happen?  [b]The Saudi handed Jonathan a list of Nigerians they know are sponsoring Boko Haram.

It wasn’t long after this that you heard Jonathan declare that his government and the Security services are teeming with Boko Haram sympathisers.
Does the name Ahmad Gumi ring any bells?  Well, he is the son of late Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gumi.  Sheikh Gumi used to be a preacher of note.  He plied his trade on the fiery side.  He, it was, who once famously said live on NTA Kaduna in a fit of haughtiness that Nigerian Muslims should never vote for, or accept a non-Muslim leader.
Sheikh Gumi was also famous for his many battles with the Sufi brotherhoods and he succeeded in causing the complete marginalisation of the Ansar Uddin Islamic Society up North.  But he reserved his vitriol for the Christian Association of Nigeria who he accused of wanting to spread Christianity in the “core” North.  For all his troubles, Gumi received a national award – the Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic.  Anyway, his son is Ahmad Gumi.

Ahmad is said to have some link with Farouk Abdul-Mutallab, the failed underwear bomber. Ahmad, like his father before him, sometimes preaches out of the Sultan Bello mosque in Kaduna.  His own teaching is straight forward call for genocide against Christians and fellow Muslims who don’t buy into his brand of Wahabist Islam.  It would be recalled that one of the bloodiest Muslim-Christian religious riots in Kaduna followed a pre-emptive attack by almajiris living in the compound of Sheikh Gumi because some Christians were gathering to protest a proposed plan to introduce Sharia.

In early 2010, Ahmad was arrested by the Saudis and was promptly thrown into jail in the town of Makkah.  A Muslim delegation led by Babangida – yes, the one and only IBB – went to Saudi Arabia to plead that Ahmad be released.  The Saudis refused.  Pressure was subsequently brought to bear on Jonathan, and eventually his vice, Sambo intervened.  Even then, the Saudis held on to Ahmad until they extracted a lot of useful information from him about going-ons in Northern Nigeria.
Then in early September, after some seven months in detention, Ahmad was released to the comfort of his two wives and seventeen children. You can perhaps see why the Saudis were the ones telling Jonathan who to arrest as matters gets ever more haram in Nigeria.

Source: http://africanheraldexpress.com/blog7/2012/03/07/ibb-pleaded-with-saudis-to-release-a-detained-nigerian-islamic-extremist/

It is so unfortunate that our govt play politics with the lives of citizens.

Thats boko naija for you oh

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I know very soon Nigerians will get know that IBB is Boko Haram ring leader, anybody who is close 2 this "evil genius" should simply ask him: where is Col Mohammad Gaddafi today?