-Says Abdulazeez is a Fraudster
A NEWLY released video by the dreaded Islamic cult Boko Haram has described ongoing negotiations with a purported representative of the group as a fraud, vowing to continue the bloody campaigns because of continued attacks from the Nigerian State.
In the new video showing the leader of Boko Haram, Sheik Abubajar Shekau, for the first time in nearly ten months described the truce reached with Imam Abdulazeez as a ruse which has further exposed the Nigerian government as unworthy of trust.
The Boko Haram leader said that the continued killing of its foot soldiers and faithfuls underscores the fundamental reason why it is not going to dialogue with the Nigerian government and totally rejected any suggestion of a ceasefire at the moment.
Shekau said that there is no one with the name of Imam Adbulazeez within the ranks and file of Boko Haram organization.
“It is a lie, there is nothing like a ceasefire or dialogue going on with the government,” he declared.
According to him, his group has “never sat in any meeting for dialogue.
“We have never sat in any meeting for dialogue. And it is not true that we are talking with the Nigerian government. We don’t know Iman Adulazeez.”
“He is not speaking for us as he claimed. He is not with us. I don’t know him. There are procedures for dialogue according to the tenets of Islam. They are busy arresting our people, small boys and girls and women. They are not serious with any dialogue and so we are not interested in any talk with them.. We are only doing God’s work and serving Him and not men.”
He defiantly insisted that the time for any dialogue with the Nigerian government has passed because the government deceltively arrest Boko Haram faithfuls and families on suporious allegations of armed robbery.
Shekau’s video, according to intelligence sources, may be stoked the confrontation that members of the Boko Haram had with the Joint Task Force in Borno State. At least twenty zealots of Boko Harram allegedly died, while an unknown number of others were arrested.
Shekau was rumored to have been injured in a deadly shootout with soldiers months ago. But flanked by seven unidentified persons in the new video compact discs, produced and being boldly bootlegged, he prmised more horrific attacks in seven nothern states of Yobe, Borno, Bauchi, Kaduna, Kano, Adamawa and Taraba States, while insisting that the Islamization of Nigeria and the enforcement of middle-age Sharia theocracy remains the preferred mode of governance for the Boko Haram cult.
He spoke in Hausa and below, essentially, is the English translation of his rhapsody.
“May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you all. This is an important message to all people.
“There is this wicked rumour making the rounds that we have dialogue with government of Nigeria which led to a ceasefire on our part. We have also heard how some of our operations and attacks are being credited to criminals. As such the security agents have been killing our armed members in the name of criminals. We have seen how our members who were out on holy mission are being attacked and killed with the label ofou criminals.
“We are telling the world that whoever kills any of our members in the name of being criminals, would surely be avenged unless such person repents now.
“We are stating it categorically that we are not in any dialogue or ceasefire agreement with anyone. And we have never asked anybody in the name Abdulazeez to represent me, Abubakar Shekau, the leader of this movement.
“I swear by Allah that Abdulazeez or whatever he calls himself did not get any authority from me to represent me in any capacity. I do not know him.
And if we per adventure encounter Abulazeez and his group, I swear by Allah we are going to mete them with the grave judgment that Allah has prescribed for their likes in the holy book.
“I want the world to know that we have no dialogue with government .
I have on several occasions attempted to pass this message across via the Internet and Youtube and we later realised that some agents of government kept removing our messages from the net and preventing its online publication so that our messages will not be heard. They know that If the world hears our position on this fake dialogue, their efforts of deceit would be exposed.
“We are also sending this strong message to the people of Yobe, BORNO, Bauchi, Kano, Kaduna, Taraba, Adamawa, and any state that whoever kills any of our members should await a grave retaliation from us. God knows that we don’t kill unjustly except those that conspired against us or those that directly fight us, or the government that is waging war upon Allah and His Prophet. We will continue waging war against them until we succeeded in establish an Islamic state in Nigeria.
“This message is prepared by me and targeted towards clarifying the issue of ceasefire. We have never had any dialogue with anyone. How would we have had dialogue with the government when our members are being killed and detained in cells, both women and children. Do you call this dialogue?
That is not dialogue or truce in Islam. “In Islam there are condition prescribed for us to go into dialogue, and there are also situation in which we cannot go in to dialogue. What we are doing now is what is prescribed for us by Allah and his holy prophet. We are workers in the vine yard of Allah.
“We are not out to cause destructions, but correct the ills of the society. And Allah is more powerful than all, and He has the might. Allah will surely assist us to victory. This is my message to you. If you have not heard from me all this while, now my message should have reached you all”.