The Boko Haram sect has released a new video with Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, again failing to appear in it. His continued absence from the sect’s videos has increased speculation about his fate. He was last heard from in March, 2015, when he released an audio message pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group. Soon thereafter, the military said it had recaptured all towns and cities from Boko Haram.
The military said on Sunday that it had freed 178 people held captive by Boko Haram in Borno State.
It had also killed militants and captured a commander following airstrikes on the group’s bases, it added.
In the eight-minute video, an unidentified young man speaks in the name of the Islamic State in West Africa, saying, “We are still present everywhere we had been before.”
The video shows the militants attacking a security checkpoint, seizing weapons, and slitting the throat of a policeman.
source- Punch
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