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Shekau abandons fans, clothes in hijab to flee, says Navy

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Feb thirteen, 2018 1:00 PM

Shekau is at the run disguised as a lady wearing Hijab.



Boko Haram chief, Abubakar Shekau (BOKO HARAM/AFP/Document)

The Nigerian Navy has disclosed that Boko Haram chief, Abubakar Shekau, has deserted his fans and brought to dressing as a lady in hijab overlaying to flee detection of troops.

In a press release signed by means of the Director Navy Public Kinfolk, Brigadier Known Sani Usman, on Tuesday, February thirteen, 2018, the military's operation by using Operation DEEP PUNCH II has placed a stress on Boko Haram's operations.

Brig-Gen Usman said that credible information from insurgents in custody indicate that Shekau is at the run disguised as a lady wearing Hijab.

The military used the improvement as a chance to induce all Boko Haram militants to put down their fingers and quit to troops when you consider that they are following a "coward".

The assertion learn, "The concerted efforts of troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE at the ongoing clearance of the Boko Haram terrorists via Operation DEEP PUNCH II has been yielding full-size outcomes.

"Troops have effectually been clearing Boko Haram camps in Sambisa woodland which include Camp Zairo.

"They have got additionally rescued civilians being held hostages with the aid of the terrorists, recovered palms, ammunition, Improvised Explosives Units (IED) factories and making ingredients in addition different system.

"Thus, the terrorists are in disarray and scampering for defense at the same time as others had been surrendering.

"Credible awareness from arrested and surrendered insurgents indicated that the purported Boko Haram terrorists organization factional chief, Abubakar Shekau couldn't undergo the warmth anymore as he has deserted his fans, he's operating for his pricey lifestyles.

"He's desperately looking to get away the theatre disguised as a girl wearing Hijab. We reliably accumulated that to prevent detection Abubakar Shekau alternates among blue and black colored hijabs. He became closing viewed in a black hijab.

"We to that end name on all these ultimate Boko Haram terrorists to grasp that they're following a coward transferring approximately in hijab disguised as a lady.

"We additionally request your entire last Boko Haram contributors to come back out from hiding and lay down their fingers and be handled humanely.

"At the same time as concerted efforts are ongoing to trace and recognize the fugitive terrorist chief, we implore additionally contributors of the general public, particularly the citizens of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States to be greater vigilant, defense wide awake and be at the seem out of Abubakar Shekau and different terrorists that would conceal as girls to flee."

Boko Haram now not useless - Shekau

In a video published with the aid of Boko Haram on February 6, Shekau denied the Nigerian Military's declare that the sect has been 'exclusively defeated'.

Within the eleven-minute video introduced in Hausa language, the terrorist chief talked about, "You, the army leader in Maiduguri, had been boasting of taking up Sambisa since you rescued ladies, telling lies to employees. In which are the policewomen? Why didn’t you rescue them in case you have certainly defeated us because it is our brethren it's maintaining them inside the equal Sambisa?

"You might be busy deceiving with photos of autos that we seized from you and deserted for over 3 years and claiming that you've killed us. If in case you have killed us, why are we nevertheless alive?"

Shekau known as on his non-combatant individuals around the us of a to enroll in his battle from any place they're.

"Oh you brethren of our holy creed, anyplace you might be, ought to arise and combat for Allah. If you can't do it there, then come over to our edge and struggle for the reason for Allah. It is advisable be aware of that whoever that fails to observe the coaching of the Holy Quran and Hadith is not going to input paradise.

"Since the sample of lifestyles on the planet as we speak will not be Islamic. At any place you're, no matter if you might be in Saudi Arabia, and you have got your gun, please arise and struggle, kill whoever you spot that's not on our edge.

"Our route is to set up our caliphate and die doing that. We will not be alive to work out the caliphate however even supposing it involves be once we have died, that's nevertheless an advantage on our facet."

Boko Haram threat

Because the insurgency of the terrorist neighborhood escalated after a 2009 crackdown by using the army, Boko Haram, mainly below the management of Shekau, has been chargeable for the demise of over 20,000 folks and the displacement of greater than 2.five million scattered throughout Internally Displaced Grownup (IDP) camps around the u . s . and its neighbours.

After a giant army operation led to the displacement of the crowd from its Camp Zairo base within the notorious Sambisa Woodland, it has resorted to suicide bomb assaults on cushy pursuits and accomplished bold assaults on armed forces bases, with thousands of captives nonetheless