The purported leader of the Boko Haram
sect, Abubakar Shekau, who was reportedly
killed by the Nigerian military, has appeared
in a latest video released yesterday, denying
claims of a ceasefire agreement with the
federal government.
This is just as the terrorist leader disowned
one Danladi Adamu, who claimed to be the
secretary of the sect and has been in talks
with the federal government on behalf of the
sect for a possible permanent ceasefire deal
and release of all persons held in captivity
by the insurgents.
Recall that despite the announcement of a
ceasefire agreement with the Islamist sect by
the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal
Alex Badeh, the sect had continued its
attacks on states in the north eastern part of
the country as well as carried out more
abductions.
Shekau, speaking in the latest video, dashed
the possibility of the abducted Chibok girls
being released, saying they had already been
married out to his fighters even as he
maintained that the war against the Nigerian
state continues.
“We don’t know that imposter called Danladi
Adamu, we have never mandated him or his
like to speak on our behalf because in this
war there is no going back.
“The issue of the girls is long forgotten
because I have long married them off”,
Shekau said.
Meanwhile, members of the
#BringBackOurGirls advocacy group have
expressed worry over the rising spate of
insurgency in towns in the North-East of
Nigeria in spite of a purported ceasefire
agreement gleefully announced to the whole
world by the federal government.
“Let no one pretend that we are not facing
the most substantial threat to the integrity
and existence of our country. What more
extreme manifestations are we waiting for
than the evidence of a rampaging group of
terrorists carrying out heinous carnage in
Mubi in Adamawa, Borno, Yobe and Gombe
barely two weeks after the Chief of Defence
Staff publicly conveyed a stand down order
to our troops who were in the front
prosecuting the war?” the group said in a
statement signed by 14 of its leaders.
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