SSS grills ex-Governor Sheriff in Abuja over Boko Haram

For about seven hours, the State Security Service (SSS) yesterday grilled ex-Governor Modu Ali Sheriff over his alleged relationship with members of the Boko Haram sect. 
The ex-Borno State helmsman is alleged to have been part of the formation of the sect to consolidate his political grip on the state. 
The sect is believed to have helped the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) to maintain an “incredible dominance” of politics since 2003. 
For security agents, who have for one month been trying to interrogate Sheriff, the waiting game ended yesterday when he arrived at the SSS Abuja headquarters at 9.24a.m.
Clad in a white Babanriga with a brown cap to match, the ex-governor was taken to an office where he faced a barrage of questions from top intelligence chiefs on the Boko Haram menace. 
Sheriff was realeased at about 4p.m.
A source, who pleaded not to be named because he is not officially permitted to speak, said: “The ex-governor came to the SSS on the prompting of the security agency. Perhaps it is just an invitation for him to explain what he knows about the Boko Haram group, his relationship with them and why Boko Haram members are targeting him, his relatives and closed associates. 
“Remember, he was the Governor of Borno State, the theatre of this disturbance for eight years.” 
Another source said: “For many weeks, we looked for the former governor. At a stage, we got a report that Sheriff had travelled to China but, I think he got a message that we might move against him and he decided to honour our invitation. 
“One of the critical issues he would help the security agencies to unravel is the circumstance behind the killing of the leader of Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf, and some key leaders of the sect after they had been arrested on July 29, 2009.”
Yusuf, who was found hiding in a goat pen at his parents-in-law’s home, was killed at Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri. There were allegations that top leaders of the sect were killed by the police at the prompting of a top government official. 
“We suspect official complicity in the Boko Haram insurgency and no other person could explain the situation in Borno State to us than Sheriff,” the source said.

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