A Nigerian military intelligence source has told reporters that
the top Boko Haram figure killed in a recent operation was one Bashir
Mohammed, leader of the Islamist sect’s Uye camp.
Mr. Salkida’s tweet appeared to confirm that the Boko Haram “officer”
killed by Nigerian soldiers in Konduga was a different person from Mr.
Shekau. In fact, Nigerian security officials have maintained for months
that Mr. Shekau was dead, apparently killed by his own disaffected
lieutenants in an internal rivalry for control of the terrorist
organization.
Ahmed Salkida,
a Dubai-based Nigerian journalist who reportedly maintains communication
with some leaders of the Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram, claimed
today that the sect’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, is alive and well. Mr.
Salkida denied reports asserting that Nigerian troops had killed the
mercurial and fiendish Shekau, the speaker and voice in numerous videos
released by Boko Haram.
In a tweet earlier yesterday, Mr. Salkida also dismissed media reports that
the Nigerian government was negotiating with Boko Haram for the release
of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in mid-April by Boko Haram
militants in Chibok, Borno State. The reporter’s tweet also described as
untrue reports that the International Red Cross (IRC) was working on
a deal that would persuade Boko Haram to free the abducted Chibok
schoolgirls in exchange for the release of detained Islamist insurgents
in the custody of Nigerian security agencies.
READ HIS TWEET AFTER THE CUT
Mark my words: I have it on authority that Shekau is well & alive, the picture going round is NOT the person who torments us with his group
— Ahmad Salkida (@ContactSalkida) September 22, 2014
So Shekau has a double? So it was his double I met during the failed attempt to negotiate an end to the plight of #chibokgirls? Oh #Nigeria
— Ahmad Salkida (@ContactSalkida) September 22, 2014
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