The Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for
the killing of a former Nigerian deputy police chief in the northern city of
Kano and vowed more of such attacks. "Yesterday
God gave us victory and we succeeded in killing a former DIG [deputy inspector
general]... in Kano city," the sect said in an email statement to
reporters late on Wednesday. The
group also vowed to carry out more of such killings of senior government
officials.
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| Rtd. Deputy Inspector General Of Police, Abubakar Saleh Ningi |
"By God's grace very soon top government officials will
have no peace as we will intensify attacks on them wherever they are," it
said. Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot
dead Abubakar Saleh Ningi, his driver and a bodyguard in Kano on Tuesday, where
Boko Haram has carried out a wave of attacks. Ningi and other top police officers were relieved of
duty in January following co-ordinated bomb and gun attacks in Kano, northern
Nigeria's largest city and commercial centre, that killed at least 185 people.