[Al Ahram] The Islamist group Boko Haram... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
has grabbed credit 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 news hounds late Wednesday.
The group also vowed to carry out more of such killings of senior government officials.
"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 gunnies on a cycle of violence rubbed out 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 coppers were relieved of duty in January following coordinated bomb and gun attacks in Kano, northern Nigeria's largest city and commercial centre, that killed at least 185 people.