The Nigerian Defence Headquarters has said that the new video
purportedly released by Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau is fake.
Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau has dismissed claims of his
death in a new video where he says "Here I am, alive. I will only die
the day Allah takes my breath," (AFP)
The new video purportedly released by Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau has been described as fake by the Nigerian Defence Headquarters.
Shekau appeared in the clip released today claiming responsibility for a missing Air Force jet and also dismissing reports of his death.
The Defence HQ has however released a statement discrediting the video. It reads:
The
Defence Headquarters is studying the claims made in the video
purportedly released by the terrorists showing their leader Abubakar
Shekau as dismissing his death. From immediate observation and what some
online news outlets claimed to have seen, the video did not indicate
when it was shot neither did it show any proof of life or currency such
as screen time or date.
The video also
did not make any reference to anything that has happened since the
impostor’s reported death. It is also noteworthy that the air plane said
to be mentioned in the video had been missing before he was killed.
It
should not surprise anybody if the terrorists decide to manipulate
pictures, clone another Shekau or upload a pre-recorded video all in a
bid to prove invincible. As far as we are concerned, the individual who
was appearing in video and claiming to be the leader of the terrorist
group was killed in the Kondunga battle in September.
The
resemblance of the corpse and that of the eccentric character was
incontrovertible. His identity was equally corroborated by people who
knew him before we announced his death. So, while waiting to see the new
video before any further statement, our message to them is that justice
will be served to whoever bears that name or designation and whoever
engages in act.
Shekau said in the video that
Boko Haram was instituting Sharia law in the communities that it had
occupied in the troubled North East.
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