The abandoned home and administrative headquarters (markas) of Boko Haram founder, Mohammed Yusuf, near the Railway Terminus in the heart of Maiduguri, Borno State, has turned into criminals ' hideouts and threat to the community. Boko Haram terrorists fired the first shots that put Nigeria on the map of global terrorism in the markas. The relic was once Yusuf's sacred shrine, which was demolished by authorities in 2009, shortly after he and his followers declared war on the Nigerian state, claiming thousands of lives and counting.