The leader of the Nigerian Islamist
militant group Boko Haram denied that it entered into a ceasefire
agreement with the government and endorsed an attack last week on a
school in northeast Yobe state.
Bloomberg reports that Abubakar
Shekau, in a video message sent to reporters on Saturday, denied claims
by the Minister of Special Duties Kabiru Turaki this week that a
ceasefire was reached on July 8 after talks with the group’s deputy
leader, Mohammed Marwan.
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| Abubakar Shekau, |
“Let me assure you that we will not
enter into any truce with these infidels,” Shekau said. “We will not
enter into any truce with the Nigerian government.”
Boko Haram, whose name means “western
education is a sin” in the Hausa language, has killed thousands of
people in gun and bomb attacks since 2009 in the mainly Muslim North and
Abuja in its campaign to establish an Islamic state in Africa’s largest
oil producer. Nigeria’s more than 160 million people are roughly split
between Christians, predominant in the south, and Muslims, mostly in the
north.
The purported cease-fire came in effect
two days after 20 students and a teacher were killed in an attack on a
secondary school in the northeastern state of Yobe. Eli Lazarus, a
spokesman for the joint military and police task force in Yobe, said the
attack was probably carried out by Boko Haram.
“We believe in the massacre inflicted on
the secondary school in Mamudo and Damaturu and other schools; we
earlier warned that we are going to burn all schools,” Shekau said.
“They are schools purposely built to fight Islam.”
While Boko Haram doesn’t attack
“children and young girls or old women,” he said, “Teachers that teach
Western education, we are supposed to kill them in the presence of their
students.
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