Contrary to claims that he must have been killed in battle, Abubakar Shekau, the Leader of dreaded Islamist sect, Boko Haram has come out to state that he is alive and well and he has not lost his place as the leader of the dreaded sect. He made the claims via an audio recording released on Sunday, security experts have claimed.
Abubakar Shekau in an eight-minute message in Hausa dialect rebutted claims by Chadian leader Idriss Deby that he had been replaced or killed.
He further referred to the Chadian leader as a tyrant and hypocrite.
Abubakar reportedly said, "It is indeed all over the global media of infidels that I am dead or that I am sick and incapacitated and have lost influence in the affairs of religion. It should be understood that this is false. This is indeed a lie. If it were true, my voice wouldn’t have been heard, now that I am speaking."
“Gratitude be to Allah and with his help, I have not disappeared. I am still alive and I am not dead. And I will not die until my time appointed by Allah is up,” Shekau said in the message.
Sgekau also taunted Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, who came to power on May 29 vowing to crush Boko Haram and ordered his military chiefs last week to end the insurgency within three months.
“This ostentatious person, a liar — I mean Buhari, who raised arms to crush us in three months. You Buhari, why didn’t you say in three years?” Shekau demanded.
“We will certainly fight you by the grace of Allah until we establish Allah’s law everywhere on Earth.”
The SITE Intelligence Group verified the authenticity of the message, and an AFP correspondent with extensive experience of reporting Boko Haram said it exactly resembled Shekau’s voice in previous recordings.
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