Boko Haram leader, Abubakar
Shekau, has taunted distraught parents of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls,
telling them to accept the insurgents as their sons-in-law.
At least 100 of over 200 Chibok
girls kidnapped by the terror group in 2014 remain in captivity.
A new video released on Monday by
the group showed more than a dozen girls who identified themselves as the
abducted Chibok girls.
Many of them had babies, an
indication they had been sexually abused by the militants.
A young woman who spoke on behalf
of the girls said the captives were doing well and were unwilling to return to
their families. The speaker wore full face veil and could not be identified.
Mr. Shekau said the parents of
the girls should consider himself and his men as their in-laws because their
daughters were “happily married” to his fighters.
The 36-minute video which the
Boko Haram leader claimed was recorded on Sunday, January 14, also faulted the
claims of the Nigerian military that he was “unhealthy” and “a spent horse”.
Mr. Shekau said the 107 girls
that had so far regained their freedom were released by his group because they
refused to convert to Islam or get married.
He said he also had in custody 10
policewomen that were abducted along Damboa-Maiduguri Road when his men
ambushed a military convoy in 2017.
Mr. Shekau, who spoke largely in
Hausa, said the latest attempt by the Nigerian military to invade his enclave
and rescue the policewomen was met with severe resistance that caused the
government heavy losses including an helicopter, armoured tank, armoured
personnel carrier and trucks.
Mr. Shekau said his group would
not give up the fight because they are devoted to the cause.
He also claimed responsibility
for most of the suicide bombings that took place recently.
The video later showed the
abducted 10 policewomen, many of who wept as they looked into camera.
Mr. Shekau’s comments are
transcribed below:
“Oh you people of Nigeria, Chad,
Niger and Cameroon, here is my message to you all . The God that created all of
us and enjoined us in His holy book, just as he sent it through our holy
prophet, Muhammad (peace be upon him) gave him the instruction to say that
Allah has sanctioned mankind this straight path and make clear this path that
does not lead one astray. This path is the only path prescribed to all mankind
in the world. May God take our lives on this path.
“The government of Nigeria cannot
end what we are doing; they can only die trying.
Particularly you the people of
Nigeria and government of Nigeria; please stop deceiving yourselves about what
you cannot achieve. You cannot stop us. And stop following the path that is not
right.
“God has instructed us to catch
whoever that is not following our path and detained such persons in our
prisons, or we could set him free and let him go ; or we could as well take our
revenge on their lives. Whatever we see in the holy book is what we do. We
don’t look elsewhere.
“That is why we hold unto the
Chibok girls; that is why we still have the police women. Among the Chibok
schoolgirls that insisted on following the ways of their parents’ religion, we
allowed them to go back and joined their people. And here with us we have the
police women who have not converted to Islam and we are not going to force them
to do so. They are here begging for you to come release them.
“But for the remaining Chibok
girls, you can’t get them again because they have all accepted and understood
the religion of God. They did not accept Islam because of us; who are we to
force them? That is why we say our ways is not that of the mortal being, but
that of God.
“You have said that I, Abubakar
Shekau, is tired and unhealthy. But you forget that no one gets tired on the
path of God. I am still strong and ready to carry on the work of God. That is
why the Chibok schoolgirls, who have gone through the western education, are
today following the book of God, because they have come to understand that the
constitution is not the right path but a deception. They have now realised that
your laws in Nigeria is not for good for them. It is written in the first
article of your constitution that the constitution takes precedence over and
above any other law book including the holy books. But how come these Chibok
girls still come to accept the laws and constitution of God?
“You use to teach children in
iyour schools to say ‘I pledge to Nigeria my country, to be faithful loyal and
honest, to serve Nigeria with all my strength, to defend her honour and glory’.
Is that not what you teach your pupils?
“It is still the same you that
ask the children to sing “Arise O’ Compatriots, Nigerians call obey. To serve
our father land, with love and strength and faith, the labor of hour heroes
past shall never be in vain…”. Is that not what you teach our young children in
school that they should not allow the labour of past leaders to waste in vain.
Do you think all the prophets of
God will allow that to happen? Never!
“President Buhari you are now 76
years old, but let me tell you that many like you have attempted fighting the
soldiers of God in the past and they are destroyed. I swear by Allah that you
cannot defeat us. That is how you come to tell all kinds of lies. But God knows
that his faithful servants cannot be ridiculed before his enemies.
The Chibok girls that have become
Muslims, and got married peacefully, are even calling on your parents to come
accept Islam. May God bless you all. And we call on the parents of the Chibok
girls that have become good Muslims to accept our ways and be part of us. You
have become our in-laws by the virtue of your daughters marrying us. We are now
in-laws. We are not fighting with the people, but those that stand against
God’s commandment. That is why we reject your books and constitution. That is
why I have said it in the past that ‘No rule and regulation in the world rather
than Quran’.
“We still have the policewomen
and here are they crying for help. For all that we do, we do for the sake of
God. That is why various of our brethren who go out to detonate bombs do so for
God’s sake and not for our sake.
The government should stop
telling all these lies, especially the elders of Nigeria. Many elders have lied
and did not end up well.
“The military have come to us but
did not end well. That is why your helicopter went down, that is why your
armoured tanks got destroyed, that is why your armored trucks from Cameroon did
not return. We killed many of you and you took their corpses to conceal the
truth.
“This message is from me Abubakar
Shekau and it was released on the day that coincides with the Sunday 14th day
of January 2018 in the Islamic calendar”.
The speech by a representative of
the abducted girls is transcribed:
“Oh you our parents in Nigeria, I
call on you to repent and worship Allah. We are very happy because we have
found a way to Worship Allah. It is Him alone that we worship here; do repent
and come to worship your creator. We pity you our parents that you have not
accept the ways of Allah. You are only worshipping the country and its
constitution. What a pity. It is ignorance.
“It is even funny that you want
the government to come and set us free and take us away. If you come to take
us, where will you take us? Back to the land of infidels? God forbid! May God
spare us from that your land of infidels. Don’t ever hope that we will ever go
back to you. Our hope is to go and join our creator. We are the Chibok
schoolgirls and we have come to stay here because here is where we belong, so
don’t ever think you will see us again.
“We pity the other girls who
refuse to accept but rather chose going back to Nigeria, after God has given
them His grace and brought you to the caliphate. You chose to return to
infidelity. You girls will come to regret your actions. You will surely regret
it on the day of judgment. Any persons that is in Nigeria and worships the
constitution has only one destination which is hell fire. Repent today and
worship God.
“Finally we thank our father,
Abubakar Shekau, he is the one that got us married to our husbands. We are all
living here with dignity; we lack nothing because he gives us everything that
we want. We never lack anything here. May God accept his devotion; may he die
as a faithful Muslim. May God give him the ability to continue leading his
followers upon the injunctions of holy book and the traditions of the prophet.”
The speech by a representative of
the police women is transcribed:
“Assalamu alaikum to the people
of Nigeria, here we are in the captivity of Boko Haram. Since our abduction we
have been kept alive and well. But our plea is to the president of Nigeria and
his vice president to have mercy on us and help us out of here.
“We are Nigerian citizens and we
plead with you to come and rescue us just as you had promised to do in the
past.
“We want you to rescue us in the
same manner you rescued the Chibok girls. The other day that your troops
invaded this place, was it meant to rescue us or to kill us. We want you to
kindly deploy safe means of rescuing us all. We are 10 of us that are held
here.”
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