The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, yesterday, dismissed the
claim of the beheading of its pilot by Boko Haram terrorists as a cheap and
senseless propaganda intended to cover up the killing of the Abubakar Shekau’s
impostor, Mohammed Bashir, by the Nigerian troops.
Speaking through its Director of Public Relations and
Information, DOPRI, Air Commodore Dele Alonge, NAF told National Mirror in Abuja that the claim in the said new video
was not only false, but also very weak such that anyone who took a closer view
of it with a good sense of analysis, would surely have every cause to doubt
them.
A new Boko Haram video showed the beheading of a man
who was identified as the pilot of a missing Nigerian Air Force jet and burnt
out parts of a plane. It also allegedly featured Boko Haram leader, Abubakar
Shekau, a man Nigeria’s military insists that had been killed.
Two weeks ago, the military said it had killed in
battle an impostor of Abubakar Shekau, who had posed in the sect’s videos.
The video was made available to The Associated Press
through the same channels used previously and seems to show the same man
claiming to be Shekau.
In the latest video, he said they were prosecuting in
accordance with Shariah law in areas under their control. Examples of
punishments are shown, including the stoning to death of a man apparently
accused of adultery; the amputation of the hand of a young man accused of
theft; the flogging of a man and what appears to be a girl covered in the
hijab.
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