THE Islamic sect, Boko Haram has threatened the
leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over
its perceived role in the fuel subsidy removal issue,
blaming it for only forcing the Federal Government to
reduce the price of petrol to N97 per litre rather
than a total reversal to N65 as earlier demanded by
labour.
A letter purportedly written by the sect was sent to
the NLC through e-mail, on Tuesday, threatening the
labour leaders to resign. It also threatened to attack
the Labour House.
Though the letter was not made available to the media
as of press time on Tuesday, a source at the Labour
House confirmed to our correspondent that a mail was
sent to the NLC by a group by that name.
But the source stated that the leadership of the
congress was trying to be sure if the letter really came
from the real Boko Haram group or not.
He, however, confirmed that the security operatives
had been handed the letter to analyse it and establish
its genuineness.
The source also said that the leadership of the
congress did not want to make the issue a media one at
present until it was fully analysed and confirmed that
the sect was responsible for it.
“It is true that we received a mail from a group, which
called itself by that name, but the letter is with the
security. We are trying to analyse if it is genuine or not.
We did not want to make it a media issue until we
analyse it,” the source said last night.
Meanwhile, one Uzairu Abba Abdullahi, 32 years-old, a
Mass Communications degree holder who allegedly
engaged a security officer in a shootout was in the
early hours of Tuesday along his wife killed in Hotoro
quarters of Kano city.
According to investigation gathered by the Nigerian
Tribune, while the security operatives reached his
house, the late Uzairu allegedly opened fire in a panic
move aimed at scaring the security personnel.
Sensing danger, the operatives returned fire which
lasted several minutes and, as a result of cross fire
that lasted for hours, Uzairu (32) and his wife lost
their lives.
Speaking with reporters, a cousin of the deceased,
Alhaji Ali Abdu-llahi, told journalists that it was true
that his brother and his wife were killed at their Hotoro
residence.
Alhaji Ali said the late Uzairu had been a businessman
since he left Bayero University, Kano, in 2002 with a
degree in Mass Communications, adding that all efforts
to recover his corpse and that of his wife for burial
from all hospitals visited were unsuccessful.
However, at the time of filing this report, it was not
clear reason for exchange of gun fire between him and
the security operatives.
Efforts to get the comment of the police on the issue
were unsuccessful, though a source, who preferred
anonymity, informed newsmen that the security
agencies were allegedly working on information that the
deceased was a suspect.
However, Kano State Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim
Idris, told journalists on Tuesday afternoon that a
“sister agency” carried out the attack on the house.
In another development, the police, on Tuesday,
showed journalists the explosives used by the Boko
Haram sect during its attack in Kano on Friday and
acknowledged some gunmen wore uniforms resembling
para-military police and soldiers.
The police said they found 10 unexploded car bombs
and hundreds of small improvised explosive devices
after the attack on Friday.
Meanwhile, security forces arrested 158 suspected
members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in an early
morning raids in Kano on Tuesday.
Also, a police station on the outskirts of Kano, Feika
Police Station, was reportedly bombed.
Though nobody died in the incident, it was reported
that a car and two motorcycles were destroyed. 
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