According to reports coming from Premium Times,  Islamic sect known as Boko Haram, has denied all allegations of them being responsible for the attack that claimed the lives of forty students of Federal Polytechnic Mubi, Adamawa.

A man believed to be a senior member of Boko Haram, passed a message to Premium Times saying: “We have no business with students or student politics. If students are our target we would have killed them randomly on sight and in their school and not sneak on them in the creeping darkness in an area occupied by both students and residents.”

“What would have been our target as far as I am concerned would have been the building and properties of the institution, since it is owned by the Government. At least, by now other students elsewhere would have been attacked if students are our concern.”

“Several press releases by our spokesman and Imam in the past have made it clear who our enemies are, I don’t have to repeat it here. I don’t think anybody among us has the time to draw up a list or read it out before executing the students.”

For once, I have read a statement from "Boko Haram" that had a touch of humour.

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