Boko Haram claims murder of ex-DIG Ningi

The retired DIG, his driver and a police orderly were shot dead by two gunmen on a motorcycle along Sauna Kawagi Road in Kano metropolis on his way from his farm.
The sect said in a statement written in Hausa on Thursday in Maiduguri it was happy to have murdered the top retired police officer.
According to the transcript of the statement sent to media houses late Wednesday, the sect bragged that very soon all top government officials would be targeted the same way as they will have no hiding place.
“Yesterday (Tuesday), God gave us victory and we succeeded in killing a former DIG (deputy inspector general)… in Kano city,” the sect said in the email.
The group also vowed to carry out more of such killings of senior government officials.
“By God’s grace very soon top government officials will have no peace as we will intensify attacks on them
wherever they are,” it said.
The statement also claimed that contrary to the Joint Task Force recent declaration that it has killed 16 suspected Boko Haram members, only one was killed.
The sect claimed to have killed about 50 soldiers in a recent encounter in Maiduguri.
“And only one of our brothers was martyred. As a result, it was only this morning that they (JTF) came to pick up the dead bodies of their colleagues and as usual started torching the houses of innocent people out of vengeance.
“We urge the people of Maiduguri city and other towns to exercise patience because very soon, God willing, we will flush out these forces of unbelief and establish the Islamic Sharia system where justice will reign,” the statement concluded.
The sect’s claim could not be independently verified.
Ningi was among senior police officers sacked by President Goodluck Jonathan in January 2012 after the sect intensified its deadly activities in the Northern part of the country.