Naja’atu alleges Tinubu’s tag team mate Shettima harboured Kabiru Sokoto
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Naja’atu Mohammed has fired another verbal grenade at Bola Tinubu with allegation his running mate Kashim Shettima, former Borno Governor, is a sponsor of terrorists who have held the North hostage since 2009 with devastating results.
The fiery woman resigned as APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) Civil Society Director on 21 January saying she could no longer cope with the “robes that politicians wear to serve their personal needs and interests.”
Three days after her resignation, Team Tinubu riposted on 24 January claiming she was sacked for incompetence and tried to rubbish her without addressing the substance of her allegations, a tactics also used by Muhammadu Buhari’s henchmen.
But Naja’atu alleged on Arise Television at the weekend notorious terrorist Kabiru Sokoto was found and arrested in the home of Shettima, which was part of the reasons she quit the APC and politics altogether.
“Especially as it concerns security, you must have an enabling environment before you do anything, so you cannot take someone that is virtually senile and another person that has been associated on several occasions with funding terrorism. That is Kashim Shettima.
“We should not forget Kabiru Sokoto, one of the most wanted terrorists, was found and arrested in his [Shettima’s] house,” she said.
“These are people that have severally being accused of harbouring terrorists and why should Shettima be visiting and making solidarity with a policeman that is being tried for drug trafficking. Why?”
“So when you begin to put these things together, you begin to understand why Nigerians must retrieve their country. We can’t allow this to happen.”
Naja’atu disclosed mineral exploitation is at the heart of terrorism, particularly in the North, describing terrorism and banditry is a multi-billion dollar industry.
The soil in Zamfara is being illegally exploited as it contains strategic minerals, as well as the blue diamonds in the North East and gold from Zamfara, she added.
She also alleged powerful people, including Governors in conjunction with foreign mercenaries, use banditry and terrorism to displace people so they can comfortably mine minerals resources illegally.
That corroborates what New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) presidential candidate Rabiu Kwankwaso disclosed at Chatham House in London on 18 January that the terror in the North is caused by struggle over mineral resources.
Kwankwaso, former Kano Governor and former Defence Minister, said people in and outside Nigeria are “stealing” the mineral resources, hence the fighting.
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Terrorism a multi-billion dollar industry
“Let us understand and not forget that this terrorism, this banditry, this carnage is not just happening by mistake, it is a multi-billion dollar industry, Naja’atu added, per The PUNCH.
“It takes a lot of money on defence budget, it has a lot to do with the sale of drugs, it has a lot to do with illegal and illicit mining and illegal bunkering.
“Look at the areas that are generally affected by this. The North East for instance has the blue diamonds that is a strategic mineral, you have oil at the Chad basin that is being explored right now but illegally.
“Zamfara has more gold than Ghana but gold from Zamfara is being traded in Dubai. There is a market in Dubai called ‘Nigeria gold market’, go and check.
“So who is doing this mining? Most times they are the Governors, the people in power in connivance with foreign mercenaries.
“Remember when they said there is a no-flight-zone in Zamfara, why should there be a no-flight-zone when Zamfara doesn’t even have an airport but aircraft land and take off from Zamfara.
“Let me tell you something else, every container that comes from China ends up in Zamfara. Why? Because the soil in Zamfara has all the strategic minerals that you can think of.
“So when these containers come they pack the soil. A bag of soil from Zamfara is today sold at N5,000 so they need to displace the people to allow them to continue with their mining. It’s multifaceted.”
