“ISIS, Al Shabab in talks with Boko Haram amidst funding from Nigerian politicians”

Some Nigerian politicians are funding Boko Haram while Al Qaeda is offering training. This makes it difficult to stop Boko Haram as the arrest of these politicians will be sentimentally linked to the Jonathan trying to clamp down on opponents against the 2015 general elections. But in any case, the politicians are losing grip of the Islamic militants as there are indications that  Al Shabab (East Africa) and ISIS (Syria, Iraq) are linking up with Boko Haram to expand the Islamic radicalism going on around the world.

The above is the summation of an opinion expressed by an international negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davis, who was believed to have tried to negotiate on behalf of Nigeria, the release of the over 200 Chibok school girls abducted by Boko Haram.

Davis who spoke yesterday in an interview on Australian TV, ABC News, said he had realised the only way to stop Boko Haram was to stop their sponsors.

He said: “That makes it easier in some ways as they can be arrested, but of course the onus of proof is high and many are in opposition, so if the president (Goodluck Jonathan) moves against them, he would be accused of trying to rig the elections due early next year,” he said.

“So I think this will run through to the election unabated. These politicians think that if they win power they can turn these terrorists off, but this has mutated.

“It’s no longer a case of Muslims purifying by killing off Christians. They are just killing indiscriminately, beheading, disembowelling people - men, women and children and whole villages.
“I would say it's almost beyond the control of the political sponsors now. Terror groups are linking up in Somalia, southern Sudan, Egypt and we have fairly strong evidence they are talking with ISIS members.

“They will link up with ISIS and Al Shabaab and I think that what we are seeing in that region is the new homeland of radical Islam in the world”

Davis has worked in Nigeria in the past with the Archbishop of Canterbury and Head of the Church of England, Justin Welby, to negotiate the release of kidnapped oil industry workers in the Niger Delta.

The PhD holder in political geography has worked as an adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. He also worked for Shell in Nigeria in an advisory capacity between 2002 and 2004.