The
Nigerian military said it was not considering the leader of Boko Haram,
Abubakar Shekau, or any other particular person in the terror group to be
relevant in the ongoing onslaught against insurgency in the North East.
“Shekau
or any of his cohorts would not deter the spate of the military operations to
rid the country of criminals hiding under strange religious ideology to kill
innocent Nigerians,” the military said in a statement Tuesday.
The
statement came days after the release of an audio clip online dismissing recent
gains by the military in the war against the insurgents. The speaker claimed to
be Shekau, whom the Nigerian military claimed it killed months ago.
The
military said it viewed the new audio as “irrelevant and fruitless”.
“The
Armed Forces is using this medium to appeal to the good citizens of Nigeria not
to lose sleep over the concocted audio rhetoric of the waning terrorist sect
which is a usual antic of a drowning person struggling to hold on to anything
to remain afloat,” the statement signed by spokesperson for the armed forces,
Rabe Abubakar, a Colonel.
-Premium Times
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