In a move negating the so-called ceasefire agreement signed by Boko Haram, the head of the Islamists said he supported the July 6 mass killing of 42 people in a school in Yobe , though he did not accept responsibility for the attack according to a video obtained by AFP.
“We fully support the attack on this Western education school in Mamudo,” Abubakar Shekau accepted.
The 10 minute video where he spoke mainly in Hausa language, Shekau is shown kneeling on a mat with a Kalashnikov resting on his left shoulder.
On the day of the last school attack, witnesses said that assailants rounded up students and staff in a dormitory, then threw explosives inside and opened fire, killing almost all the students.
“We fully support the attack on this Western education school in Mamudo,” Abubakar Shekau accepted.
The 10 minute video where he spoke mainly in Hausa language, Shekau is shown kneeling on a mat with a Kalashnikov resting on his left shoulder.
On the day of the last school attack, witnesses said that assailants rounded up students and staff in a dormitory, then threw explosives inside and opened fire, killing almost all the students.
Shekau also voiced similar support for the earlier Damaturu attack on June 16 where gunmen opened fire on a secondary school in the Yobe capital. In this attack they killed seven students, two teachers and injured others. To this the terrorist group leader claimed that “Western education schools” is a “plot against Islam”.
However, the military claim significant advantage over Boko Haram since two months offensive authorised by the state of emergency declaration started. Yobe state falls under the area placed under emergency rule and has generally seen a curtailment of the sects deadly attacks.
Shekau message further rubbished reports of ceasefire negotiations with the government as claimed by a federal cabinet minister and head of amnesty panel Kabiru Tanimu Turaki. The Special Duties minister had said he was in negotiation with Shekau's 'second in command' and that a ceasefire was in the offing.
“The claim that we have entered into a truce with the government of Nigeria is not true,” the wanted US designated terrorist Islamist leader said. “We don’t know Kabiru Turaki. We have never spoken with him. He is lying,” Shekau added whose group is fighting to create an Islamic state in Nigeria .
The United States holds out a large bounty on Shekau's head for an insurgency that has cost over 4000 lives since 2009.
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