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****** Nigeria: Kano Demolishes Sect Leader's Mosque, House ******
Jaafar Jaafar and Lawan Danjuma Adamu
30 July 2009
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Kano — The Kano State government yesterday demolished the mosque and house of
Malam Salisu Aljasawy, the Boko Haram sect leader in Wudil town, 44 kilometres
from Kano .
Our correspondents who were at the house and mosque yesterday gathered that the
state government ordered the demolition to stop the propagation of the Boko
Haram ideology. A detachment of mobile policemen were drafted to the area to
prevent any possible attack.
Aljasawy's house was adjacent to the mosque where he propagated his ideologies.
It was gathered that Aljasawy had conscripted more than 50 youths in the town,
and that the sect leader converted the mosque to an academy of some sort.
"He gave his followers training and secretly organised parades for them at the
mosque's courtyard," a villager, Mallam Nasiru, said.
Kano Police Command's Public Relations Officer SP Baba Mohammed said the mosque
and the house were not built in order as they did not undergo the screening of
the town planning authority. The police commander in charge of Wudil ACP
Ibrahim Mohammed said the police had brought normalcy to the area, noting that
they had mounted roadblocks and deployed enough troops to the town to quell
militancy.
Chairman of Wudil Local Government Alhaji Musa Darki said the sect leader came
to the village nine years ago and that they accommodated him because he was
good-mannered and did not show signs of belligerent ideology.
Although the chairman did not disclose whether the house the sect leader was
occupying was his own or not, he said the mosque was built by a woman who gave
it out as a sacrifice. He added that the woman innocently sacrificed the
mosque. Darki however revealed that the sect leader was last seen around 12 pm
on the eve of the Wudil attack. He said Aljasawy, who hailed from Jos, had
evacuated his family months before the attack.
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