‘Boko Haram leader is from Niger Republic’

 The Head of the Terrorist sect Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau hails from Niger Republic according to the Senate joint committee that investigated the Baga town Deaths.

This news shatters the widely believed notion that he was born in Shekau village in Yobe state

Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima himself told visiting senators that the man was actually from the neighbouring Republic of Niger.

 The senators were also informed that although the sect has some foreigners, 80% of the sect members where from the Kanuri tribe saying that the leader is a Kanuri from Niger Republic.

After Mohammed Yussuf's death Shekau became the leader of the sect bringing death and anguish to thousand's of Nigerians