Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau yesterday dismissed Nigerian military claims of his death in a new video obtained by AFP on Thursday and said the militants had implemented strict Islamic law in captured towns.
The new 36-minute video showed Shekau, in combat fatigues and black rubber boots, standing on the back of a pick-up truck and firing an anti-aircraft gun into the air.
Standing in front of three camouflaged vans and flanked by four heavily armed, masked fighters, he then speaks for 16 minutes in Arabic and the Hausa language widely spoken in northern Nigeria.
There was no indication of where or when the video was shot.
Watch a summarized clip of the new Boko Haram video below...
“Here I am, alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my breath,” Shekau said in the new video, adding that his group was “running our… Islamic caliphate” and administering sharia punishments.
“Nothing will kill me until my days are over… I’m still alive. Some people asked you if Shekau has two souls. No, I have one soul, by Allah,” he said, apparently reading from a script.
“It is propaganda that is prevalent. I have one soul. I’m an Islamic student.
“I’m the Islamic student whose seminary you burnt… I’m not dead,” he added
Nigeria’s military however maintained the claim that Shekau was dead and that a man who had been posing as the group’s leader in the videos had been shot dead after fighting with troops in the far northeast.
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non sense old video
ReplyDeleteThere is no video to show here, this is another junk and biased journalism again by NE. The man Shekau is dead and suffering and gnashing his teeth in hell. It is now left for for his mumu followers and his gullible Muslim brethren to either repent or go his own way.
ReplyDeleteWhat ever u think u are , as the Lord lived the souls u have destroyed and innocent blood shed must certainly hunt and destroy you and ur co- sponsors of oko nHaran in Jesus name Amen
ReplyDeleteOld Film!!!!!!!!!, Dead men don't talk. The man is long stone dead. #Facing the shocking reality that he has no ***VIRGIN GIRLSSSS*** to marry.
ReplyDeleteYes oh he must have been looking for a way to come back to life and tell his followers to stop oh that he did not know that no virgines are awaiting him after death and na mastobate him dey do since wey him die. I can visioning him regretting. Let me help him tell them. Boko boys? don't b fools like ur oga, just drop ur guns and mix with the crowd, repent only if u have not killed but if u have killed, hand yourself.
ReplyDeleteThe reality of the matter is that Abubakar Shekau is long dead.He was killed like a mere rat by the Nigerian Army, few weeks ago. He his presently swimming in the lake of fire with so much pain that cannot put in to words. The name is now been used as a "TITLE" showing that the boko haram has elected a new leader. One thing for sure is this "Everything that has a Beginning surely has an End. The federal has already mentioned it that it a now a crime to inherit such title. For the title is for the futile ignorant myopic animals called "BOKO HARAM"...
ReplyDeleteTerrorist Religion........i wonder at this modern age,worshipers of this Terrorist Religion can not understand that the teachings of Koran is Devilish and deceitful.....Just read below and see wht their useless book teaches them..................
ReplyDeleteQu’ran (9:111) - "Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain,…”
Qu'ran (61:9): "He it is who has sent His Messenger (Mohammed) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam) to make it victorious over all religions even though the infidels may resist."
Qu'ran (48:29) - "Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard (ruthless) against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves"
Bukhari (52:73) - "Allah's Apostle said, 'Know that Paradise is under the shades of swords'."
Qu'ran (4:76) - "Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah…”
Qu'ran (61:4) - "Surely Allah loves those who fight in His way."
If you want to prove that someone is alive, why not show a close up picture. I am 100% sure that the man in this video is different from the man that has been posing as Shekau.
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