Another group of Boko Haram insurgents have released a new video today denying any suggestions that they would surrender, over a week after their shadowy leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a video claiming that the end had come for the insurgents and calling for prayer.
In the new video, the insurgents said: “you should know that there is no truce, there is no negotiation, there is no surrender.”
An unidentified masked man wearing camouflage said in a prepared script in Hausa, in the video posted on YouTube: “this war between us will not stop.”
The video, which was of markedly better quality than Shekau’s and included Arabic subtitles, featured nine masked Boko Haram fighters standing on sandy ground in an undisclosed desert location. It is unclear if the masked people in the video include the Boko Haram leader.
In today’s message, Boko Haram maintained it was a potent fighting force, with fighters posing with AK-47s in front of Toyota Hilux pick-up trucks and a lorry mounted with a military cannon.
They however admitted that Shekau was still the head of the “West African wing. [myad]
