{"id":14751,"date":"2012-09-18T16:39:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T14:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/nigeria-islamists-kill-top-borno-state-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2012-09-18T16:39:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T14:39:28","slug":"nigeria-islamists-kill-top-borno-state-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/nigeria-islamists-kill-top-borno-state-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Islamists kill top Borno state lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Security forces said on Monday Boko Haram spokesman killed<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mobile phone masts recently sabotaged<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* MTN says fibre optic cables cut, disrupting services<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Sept 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Suspected members of<br \/>\nthe Boko Haram Islamist sect killed the attorney general of<br \/>\nNigeria&#8217;s northeast state Borno overnight, the state&#8217;s justice<br \/>\nministry said on Tuesday, a day after the sect&#8217;s spokesman was<br \/>\nreportedly killed in a shootout.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram, which models itself on the Afghan Taliban, is<br \/>\nfighting to create an Islamic state in largely Muslim northern<br \/>\nNigeria, a battle in which the sect has killed hundreds of<br \/>\npeople in gun and bomb attacks. Its headquarters is in Borno.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zanna Malam Gana was shot dead in his home town of Bama, in<br \/>\nNigeria&#8217;s remote northeast, on the threshold of the Sahara<br \/>\nDesert, the justice ministry said in a statement to local<br \/>\njournalists. It said his burial would take place on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, a Nigerian security source said its forces had<br \/>\nkilled Abu Qaqa, the main spokesman of the Boko Haram sect,<br \/>\nwhich has become the biggest threat to Nigeria&#8217;s security, as<br \/>\nwell as another senior militant.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There has been no response from the sect on the claim.<br \/>\nNigerian forces have claimed to have killed or captured him<br \/>\nbefore, only for the militant to issue a statement denying it.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram traditionally targets authority figures or<br \/>\nsecurity sources, although it started attacking mobile phone<br \/>\ninstallations across the northeast two weeks ago, saying phone<br \/>\ncompanies were helping authorities to track down its fighters.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Security forces said on Monday Boko Haram spokesman killed * Mobile phone masts recently sabotaged * MTN says fibre optic cables cut, disrupting services MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Sept 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect killed the attorney general of Nigeria&#8217;s northeast state Borno overnight, the state&#8217;s justice ministry said on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-14751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}