Boko Haram has killed a student
of the University of Maiduguri who was recently abducted while returning to
school, according to a local official on Wednesday.
The execution of the student
identified as Daciya Dalep, from Nigeria’s central Plateau State, took place on
Tuesday, said Yusuf Gagdi, a federal lawmaker representing that part of the
country at the national parliament.
Gagdi said the student was
kidnapped on January 9, on his way to school two weeks ago, by Boko Haram. In
the video distributed by ISIS, the student was executed in a gruesome manner by
an eight-year-old boy.
The video was released just after
the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Chairman in Michika Local Government
Area of Adamawa State, Rev Lawan Andimi was executed by another faction of Boko
Haram.
In the horrific footage shared,
the boy was heard saying "We won't stop until we take revenge for all the
blood that was spilled".
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This is a photo grab from the video circulated by ISIS on the execution of Dalep
His killing was “inhuman”, said
the lawmaker who confirmed that Boko Haram had released the video where Dalep
was gruesomely executed on Tuesday.
“I am devastated by the
excruciating loss of this promising young man, and more pathetically, in a
gruesome manner, one could not wish for his arch-enemy,” Gagdi said.
The student’s execution by Boko
Haram has, once again, brought to fore the nightmarish experience of people
living in the insurgency ravaged northeastern part of Nigeria, he said, calling
on governments at all levels to redouble efforts at ending Boko Haram’s
militancy and other security threats in other parts of the country.
“It is most despicable that
despite the resources sunk in fighting the insurgency, the nefarious activities
of the insurgents fester, and more precious lives continue to perish in a
wanton manner,” he noted.
Commenting on the video, Rita Katz who is the Director of
SITE Intelligence Group which is an organisation which tracks the activities of
jihadist groups, said it is not just another piece to ISIS’ honed-in targeting
of Christians of recent years, but also a throwback to its older propaganda
from Iraq and Syria of brainwashed children carrying grisly executions.
See her tweets below;
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