MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Nigeria's chief of police says police in the country's northeast have failed to protect residents from a banned Muslim sect.
Police Inspector General Hafiz Ringim said Thursday that Borno state police's failure to find and arrest more members of the radical Boko Haram sect was "a shame and a disgrace."
Ringim says some police officers were informing sect members about police operations.
Boko Haram is accused of killing more than 30 people in recent months including police officers, soldiers, political and spiritual leaders.
Boko Haram means "Western education is sacrilege" in the Hausa language. Its members re-emerged recently after starting a July 2009 riot that led to a security crackdown that left 700 people dead.
