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Nigeria’s most elusive criminal and leader of the blood-
thirsty terrorist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has
resurfaced.
The terrorist leader declared once more that reports he had
been killed, deposed or badly injured were false.
In an eight-minute Hausa-language audio message released
Sunday and confirmed by security experts to be that of the
Boko Haram leader, Shekau rebuffed the statements by
President Idriss Deby of Chad that he had been replaced
and called the Chadian leader a “hypocrite” and a “tyrant”.
“It is indeed all over the global media of infidels that I am
dead or that I am sick and incapacitated and have lost
influence in the affairs of religion”, he said in the recording
released on social media.
“It should be understood that this is false. This is indeed a
lie. If it were true, my voice wouldn’t have been heard, now
that I am speaking”, he added.
Deby had last week while speaking with journalists in
N’Djamena on the occasion of Chad’s 55th independence
anniversary, said the terrorist group is now led by a new
member who is open to talks.
“There is someone apparently called Muhamat Daoud, who
is said to have replaced Abubakar Shekau and he wants to
negotiate with the Nigerian government. For my part, I
would advise not to negotiate”, Mr. Deby said.
The Chadian leader had also declared that the group had
been “decapitated” with pockets of Boko Haram fighters
scattered throughout east Nigeria, on border with
Cameroon.
“The war will be short with the setting up of the regional
force. It will be over by the end of the year”, he said.
But Shekau rubbished those claims saying “Gratitude be to
Allah and with his help, I have not disappeared. I am still
alive and I am not dead. And I will not die until my time
appointed by Allah is up”.
The SITE Intelligence Group verified the authenticity of
the message, and an AFP correspondent with extensive
experience of reporting Boko Haram said it exactly
resembled Shekau’s voice in previous recordings.
The terrorist leader’s absence from Boko Haram videos in
recent months fuelled speculation that he might have been
killed or wounded as the last time he spoke publicly was on
March 7, 2015 when he pledged allegiance to the Islamic
State (IS) in an audio recording.
Shekau also refers to himself in the new recording for the
first time as “leader of the west Africa wing” of IS and
pays homage to its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, referring
to him as the “Caliph of Muslims”.
He mocked President Muhammadu Buhari, who only last
week, while decorating the service chiefs with their new
ranks, gave them a marching order to end the insurgency
within three months.
“This ostentatious person, a liar – I mean Buhari, who
raised arms to crush us in three months. You Buhari, why
didn’t you say in three years?” Shekau demanded.
“We will certainly fight you by the grace of Allah until we
establish Allah’s law everywhere on Earth”, he declared.
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