NIGERIAN MILITARY insist Boko Haram Leader is dead

The Nigerian military insists that Bashir Mohammed alias Abubakar Shekau was killed during a battle in Konduga on September 17, said the new video purportedly released by “Abubakar Shekau” is nothing but a propaganda. 

The reaction was contained in a short statement posted on defence information blog defenceinfo.mil.ng.

 The reaction of Defence Headquarters titled The Purported Shekau Video in Circulation is as follows:

“The Defence Headquarters is studying the claims made in the video purportedly released by the terrorists showing their leader Abubakar Shekau as dismissing his death.  From immediate observation and what some online news outlets claimed to have seen, the video did not indicate when it was shot neither did it show any proof of life or currency such as screen time or date. The video also did not make any reference to anything that has happened since the impostor’s reported death.

“It is also noteworthy that the air plane said to be mentioned in the video had been missing before he was killed. It should not surprise anybody if the terrorists decide to manipulate pictures, clone another Shekau or upload a pre-recorded video all in a bid to prove invincible.

“As far as we are concerned, the individual who was appearing in video and claiming to be the leader of the terrorist group was killed in the Kondunga battle in September.  The resemblance of the corpse and that of the eccentric character was incontrovertible. His identity was equally corroborated by people who knew him before we announced his death."