Head of Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad also called Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau has again provoked the Nigerian military central leadership in his most recent video that he can’t be captured on the grounds that he is accomplishing crafted by God.
Head of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai had requested his men to catch Shekau around multiple times over the most recent couple of years.
President Muhammadu Buhari had additionally said during his mission for office that he would overcome Boko Haram inside a brief timeframe of his getting down to office.
The Nigerian Army had on November 11, 2020 kicked off a fresh manhunt for Shekau and other top commanders of the sect.
In a new video, however, Shekau said nobody can arrest him because he was doing the work of God who will protect him.
“Nobody can apprehend me, because I’m doing God’s work.
“He will protect me like those doing similar work and seeking His protection,” Shekau said in the 30 minutes long video in response to the Nigerian Army’s fresh manhunt for him and his top commanders.
“I’m very sure God will protect my commanders. We are all doing God’s work.”
Shekau was shown in the video sitting in the midst of two of his fighters holding guns.
In the video, shot in a question and answer format, Shekau vowed that the war would continue even after him.
“Arresting me will not stop the work we started. What confuses you is you think the religion is mine but it belongs to Allah,” he said.
He also spoke on the members of Boko Haram who recanted from the group and joined the amnesty program in the northeast.
“They have left the fold of religion,” Shekau said of the ex-fighters.
He, however, said he and his men would never consider such a path in their lifetime, putting aside any chance of reconciliation between his group and the state.
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