The Nigerian army has announced that the dreaded leader of the long-fighting Boko Haram is currently sick and no longer poses any threat, even as it said that another factional leader of the same sect, Abu Mus’ab Albarnawiy will soon be captured.
In a statement today, Monday, the Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Sani kukasheka Usman said: “there is no doubt that the main Boko Haram terrorists group factional leader, Abubakar Shekau, is in a terrible state of health and not much a threat as he is now a spent horse, waiting for his waterloo.
“However, Abu Mus’ab Albarnawiy, who has been busy deceiving and recruiting gullible persons, especially misguided youths into his fold, will soon be captured.
“We reliably learnt that some misguided persons, particularly youths, are getting conscripted into the sect through enticements.
“They are usually attracted to the sect because of the deceitful and erroneous impression that Abu Musab’s Albarnawiy brand of “jihad” and insurgency is refined and genuine. This is far from it.
“Both factions are terrorists’ organizations whose activities constitute crimes against humanity. Their nefarious activities run contrary to the religion of Islam.”
Brigadier General Sani Usman said that the faction has recruiters all over the country, especially in the north east. According to him, the clearing house for such conscripts by the terrorist leaders, is at Potiskum in Yobe State, stressing that efforts are ongoing to track those involved.
This is even as he appealed to the general public to be wary of these unscrupulous elements attempting to recruit more youths into their sect.
The spokesman said that the terrorists have also embarked on tricks to evade air bombardments, explaining that they usually deploy special roofing techniques in order to avoid air detection and bombardment from the Nigerian Air Force (NAF).
“They resort to roofing their living accommodation and hideouts with a mixture of coated sugar and mud so that the roof will not reflect when there is sun shine.”
He assured that decisive measures have been taken to deal with this deception.
According to him, the new tricks were decoded through credible intelligence. [myad]
