RAJAB 11 1430 A.H.
FRIDAY JULY, 3 2009.
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Sheikh Ja'afar: Okiro gives Shekarau clean bill... Emirate council too
From Atiku S. Sarki, Abuja
The Nigeria Police Force has refuted allegations of involvement of the governor of Kano state, Malam (Dr.) Ibrahim Shekarau and Emir of Kano, Alhaji (Dr.) Ado Bayero in the murder of Sheikh Ja’afar Mahmud Adam who was attacked and killed by unknown assailants while leading morning (Subhi) prayer at Dorayi Juma’at Mosque, Kano on the 13th of April, 2007.
The Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, who revealed this while briefing newsmen in Abuja on the state of security in Kano state yesterday, explained that there is no iota of evidence of the involvement of the governor of Kano state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau and the Kano Emirate Council in the killing of Sheikh Ja’afar.
The Inspector – General of Police who spoke through the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) in-charge of investigation, Israel Ajao, said that there were some stories on the internet by Sahara-reporters and Desert Herald this year accusing the governor, his ADC and the Kano Emirate Council of involvement in the killing.
The publication had alleged that one Tijjani Garba received N50 million from the Kano state governor in conspiracy with the Kano Emirate Council to kill the Sheikh and further claimed that students of the late Sheikh Adam jointly signed a document demanding the investigation of all these allegations on the internet.
According to Okiro, police investigation has revealed that the internet publication was authorized by a faceless writer, as the Islamic body alleged to have originated it dissociated itself from it completely.
Also, all the signatories to the document who claimed to be students and sympathizers of the late Sheikh do not exist as efforts made to contact them yielded no positive results and none of them is known to the Usman Bn Affan Islamic Trust of the late Sheikh as well as the alleged confessional statement made by a faceless Tijani Garba is a false document because there was no address on either the police statement or endorsed by any police officer.
He, however, assured that the police are deter mined to unmask the killers and bring them to justice, noting that the people of Kano and the followers of late Sheikh Ja’afar are enjoined to keep the peace and allow the police to finish the task of finding the killers.
It could be recalled that on the 13th of April, 2007, the deceased was attacked and killed by some unknown assailants at Dorayi Juma’at Mosque, Kano and in the course of police investigations, they found out that he was reported to have received series of death threats from different quarters both written and verbal including the receipt of a shroud and these threats were allegedly extended to his followers too.
The Sheikh was also said to have been attacked in June, 2006 while preaching at Indimi Mosque in Maiduguri of Borno state.
