The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram denied he
had been killed or ousted as chief the jihadist
group in an audio recording released Sunday
attributed to him by security experts. In the
eight-minute Hausa-language message, Abubakar
Shekau denied claims by Chadian leader Idriss
Deby that he had been replaced and calls the
president a “hypocrite” and a “tyrant”. “It is
indeed all over the global media of infidels that I
am dead or that I am sick and incapacitated and
have lost influence in the affairs of religion,” he
says in the recording released on social media.
“It should be understood that this is false. This is
indeed a lie. If it were true, my voice wouldn’t
have been heard, now that I am speaking.”
Advertisement Deby declared on August 12 that
efforts to combat neighbouring Nigeria’s Boko
Haram jihadists had succeeded in “decapitating”
the group and would be wrapped up “by the end
of the year”. Deby told reporters in the capital
N’Djamena Boko Haram was no longer led by the
fearsome Shekau and that his successor, whom
he named as Mahamat Daoud, was open to talks.
“Gratitude be to Allah and with his help, I have
not disappeared. I am still alive and I am not
dead. And I will not die until my time appointed
by Allah is up,” Shekau says in the message. The
SITE Intelligence Group verified the authenticity
of the message, and an AFP correspondent with
extensive experience of reporting Boko Haram
said it exactly resembled Shekau’s voice in
previous recordings.
Source-www.blissblaze.com/2015/08/shekau-still-in-charge.html?m=1

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