Nigeria Senator-denies supporting boko haram.

Nigerian senator has denied claims by a security task force he was
sheltering a top commander of terrorist group Boko Haram who was
arrested last week.
Sen. Ahmed Zanna said Sunday heis being framed because he recently
charged the Joint Task Force was killing civilians in its search for
members of the Islamicextremist group, Nigerian newspaper Leadership
reported.
The commander, Shu'aibu Bama, was arrested Thursday.
Zanna said he was out of town Thursday when four armored vehicles and
about 40 soldiers from the JTF came to his home. They searched the
home and beatup members of his household before asking them if they
knew where Bama lived.
One person took the soldiers to a home near the senator's house where
Bama was arrested.
The JTF had charged Bama was arrested at Zanna's home.
Zanna said the JTF made the false claim because he had recently said
in a BBC interview the unit should withdraw from Borno state. He
charged the JTF had burnt at least 300 homes in the last six weeks and
had killed as many as 500 people.
The senator said Bama was his nephew, a drug addict who "beats up my
children, he abuses my friends," and had threatened to kill his own
mother.
Separately, governors from several northern states and a former
president Sunday called onall terrorist groups to end their mass
killings.
In a statement, the Northern States Governors Forum noted 116 people
had been killed in attacks in five states this month, including the
deaths of 34 people in Yobe state on Friday.
The federal government must negotiate for peace with all militant
groups in the country, former interim president Ernest Shonekan said
on Sunday.
Source:feed.com.ng