A leader of the Boko Haram sect has
denied that the organization entered a ceasefire agreement with the government
and endorsed an attack last week on a school in northeast Yobe state.
Bloomberg reports that Abubakar Shekau, in a video message sent to
reporters on Saturday, denied claims by the Minister of Special Duties Kabiru
Turaki this week that a ceasefire was reached on July 8 after talks with the
group’s deputy leader, Mohammed Marwan.
“Let me assure you that we will not
enter into any truce with these infidels,” Shekau said. “We will not enter into
any truce with the Nigerian government.”
Boko Haram, whose name means “western
education is a sin” in the Hausa language, has killed thousands of people in
gun and bomb attacks since 2009 in the mainly Muslim North and Abuja in its
campaign to establish an Islamic state in Africa’s largest oil producer.
Nigeria’s more than 160 million people are roughly split between Christians,
predominant in the south, and Muslims, mostly in the north.
The purported cease-fire came in
effect two days after 20 students and a teacher were killed in an attack on a
secondary school in the northeastern state of Yobe. Eli Lazarus, a spokesman
for the joint military and police task force in Yobe, said the attack was
probably carried out by Boko Haram.
“We believe in the massacre inflicted
on the secondary school in Mamudo and Damaturu and other schools; we earlier
warned that we are going to burn all schools,” Shekau said. “They are schools
purposely built to fight Islam.”
While Boko Haram doesn’t attack
“children and young girls or old women,” he said, “Teachers that teach Western
education, we are supposed to kill them in the presence of their students.
The military began an air and ground
offensive against Boko Haram on May 16, two days after President Goodluck
Jonathan imposed emergency rule in the northeastern states of Borno, Yobe and
Adamawa to step up the fight against the Islamist militants. The insurgents
were taking over parts of Borno state, according to Jonathan.
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How much insane can this man and his followers go?
ReplyDeleteMay God punish u boko bad idoits,will u force people 2 Join ur religion!!d best 4 dis country s Hausa's sld b on der own n liv wit watevr law dey wnt2 mak 4 demslf,,all u supporter of boko haram dat say westrn Education s a sin 2 u people,anytim u people get sick n go a hospital u'll all die cus hospital s a product of westrn education dat also includes der heads dat go outside d country,plane s a product of westrn education,car n evn dat bomb u people r using 2 shed innocnt blood wit kill all of u.brain washed animals dat cnt ask why dos dat brain wash dem into bin a destructive tool wil hav their children school abroad n get better lives.Nigeria sld split so dis hrtless people canb on der own n liv witout western education.
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