NIGERIA: BOKO HARAM - WHY WE EXECUTED THEM

the summary execution of the Boko Haram religious sect leader Malam Mohammed Yusuf and scores of his followers in July 2009 was necessary in order to quell a very dangerous situation, according to the Nigeria Police high command. In the wake of international outrage, the president ordered his National Security Adviser Major General Abdullahi Sarki Mukhtar and the police to submit a report to him within a week.