Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group has released a new video, debunking military claims that he had been killed.
According to AFP, the sect had released a video on Thursday capturing the Boko Haram leader as saying that he is alive. “Here I am, alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my breath,” Shekau said.
"Here I am, alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my breath. Nothing will kill me until my days are over... I'm still alive. Some people asked you if Shekau has two souls. No, I have one soul, by Allah. It is propaganda that is prevalent. I have one soul. I'm an Islamic student. I'm the Islamic student whose seminary you burnt... I'm not dead,"
The report says the new 36-minute video ”showed Shekau, in combat fatigues and black rubber boots, standing on the back of a pick-up truck and firing an anti-aircraft gun into the air.
It claimed, ”Standing in front of THREE camouflaged vans and flanked by four heavily armed, masked fighters, he then speaks for 16 minutes in Arabic and the Hausa language widely spoken in northern Nigeria.”
The news agency reports that ”Shekau, who appeared to be the same as those in previous clips, said the military’s claim that he was dead was mere propaganda.”
The sect in the video also claimed to have shot down a Nigerian air force jet that went missing nearly three weeks ago.
But Air Commodore Dele Alonge told AFP that “For any group to claim they shot it down is mere propaganda and rubbish,”.
The Nigerian Army has recently announced with proofs of photos that the acclaimed leader of the group was killed in a raid near Kondunga in Borno state.
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