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Techfile: Abubakar Shekau Appears In New Year Video - latest news
This screen grab image taken on January 2, 2018
from a video released on January 2, 2018 by
Islamist group Boko Haram shows Boko Haram
leader Abubakar Shekau speaking in his first
video message in months amid a surge in
violence casting doubt on the Nigerian
government’s claim that the jihadist group is
defeated. / AFP PHOTO / BOKO HARAM AND
AFP PHOTO / Handout /
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released
a video message on Tuesday claiming a series
of attacks in northeast Nigeria during the festive
season.
The shadowy leader released his first video
message in months amid a surge in violence
casting doubt on the Nigerian government’s
claim that the jihadist group is defeated.
“We are in good health and nothing has
happened to us,” said Shekau in the 31-minute
video message spoken in the Hausa language
common across northern Nigeria.
“Nigerian troops, police and those creating
mischief against us can’t do anything against us,
and you will gain nothing,” he said.
“We carried out the attacks in Maiduguri, in
Gamboru, in Damboa. We carried out all these
attacks.”
The video then shows footage from a Christmas
Day attack on a military checkpoint in Molai
village on the outskirts of the northeast Nigerian
city of Maiduguri, which the military said was
thwarted by troops after one hour of battle.
Boko Haram fighters in torn clothes were shown
shooting from the back of battered pickup
trucks.
Shekau’s message comes during an acceleration
of Boko Haram attacks and just days after the
jihadists killed 25 people outside Maiduguri, the
birthplace of the Islamist insurgency.
In December, Boko Haram attacked convoys of
Nigerian soldiers and dispatched suicide
bombers into crowded markets in towns across
northeast Nigeria.
At least 50 people were killed in November
when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a
mosque in Adamawa state.
But Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said
in his New Year address that Boko Haram has
been “beaten”.
“Isolated attacks still occur, but even the best-
policed countries cannot prevent determined
criminals from committing terrible acts of terror,”
said Buhari.
Shekau, a leader known for his lengthy, wild-
eyed video messages, took over Boko Haram in
2009 after the death of its founder Muhammad
Yusuf.
Boko Haram, whose Islamist insurgency has left
at least 20,000 dead in Nigeria since it began in
2009, has long been fractionalised.
In 2016 it suffered a major split, when the so-
called Islamic State group recognised Yusuf’s
son, Abu Mus’ab al-Barnawi, as a leader.
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