{"id":30654,"date":"2014-08-28T21:31:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T20:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=30654"},"modified":"2014-08-28T22:25:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T21:25:49","slug":"sheriff-ihejirika-boko-haram-kingpins-claims-australian-hostage-negotiator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/sheriff-ihejirika-boko-haram-kingpins-claims-australian-hostage-negotiator\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff and Ihejirika are Boko Haram kingpins claims Australian hostage negotiator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Australian hostage negotiator Stephen Davis has just named Former Borno Governor Ali Modu Sheriff and immediate past chief of army staff Lt-Gen Azubuike. \u00a0Ihejirika \u00a0as the Boko Haram brains on Arise TV NewsDavis gave Boko Haram commanders that he has been negotiating with as the source of this information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The kingpins, according to him, not only finance BH operations but select targets for assassination and execution.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dr Davis, from Perth, is in talks with terror group Boko HaramDr Davis has been working secretly in Nigeria for almost a month<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>He told MailOnline he is &#8216;encouraged by the progress&#8217; he has seen<\/div>\n<div>According to him \u00a0he is desperately trying to free the 250 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, who were taken on April 14 by Boko Haram terrorists.Dr \u00a0Davis left his home in Perth to travel to Nigeria to assist with efforts to get back the Chibok girls due to his hostage negotiation expertise.<\/p>\n<p>The girls were taken in a raid on their school in Chibok, in Nigeria\u2019s north-east, by the violent group who want to impose Sharia law on the country.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Davis, a friend of The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, has been working secretly in Nigeria for almost a month now<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian hostage negotiator Stephen Davis has just named Former Borno Governor Ali Modu Sheriff and immediate past chief of army staff Lt-Gen Azubuike. \u00a0Ihejirika \u00a0as the Boko Haram brains on&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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