The state Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Mohammed Bulama, disclosed this at the sidelines of the 9th National Council for Culture, Tourism and National Orientation held in Dutse, Jigawa.
According to Bulama, the museum would help to archive all things related to Boko Haram insurgency to attract tourists and for the benefits of future generation.
“We are going to convert the house of the leader of the Boko Haram sect Mohammed Yusuf where the insurgency all started from, to a museum.
“The place is called Maarcas; we want to build a museum there where all the things that had happened relating to the insurgency will be archived.
“We want to document and archive all that had happened so that our future generation will be able to have first-hand information,” he said.
The commissioner said the state was also planning to turn the Sambisa forest, where the Chibok girls were kept after being kidnapped in 2014, to a tourist centre by reviving the already existing games reserve in the forest.
The move has however been criticized with others saying the plan risks immortalizing Yusuf.
“They should look for a place like the police college, which the group destroyed,” human rights lawyer Anthony Agholahon told the BBC’s Pidgin Service.
“They should not be using the house of someone who killed people.”
Mr Yusuf formed Boko Haram in 2002 which had its main focus on opposing Western education.
In 2009, it launched its military operations in an attempt to create an Islamic state. Yusuf was killed the same year in police custody.
Boko Haram has continued to constitute serious security threat to Borno and other states in the North-east.
The group which officially is called Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad, meaning “People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad”, has spread into neighbouring countries.
