Boko Haram sect leader, Abubakar Shekau, appeared in a video clip posted online by the sect Wednesday, insisting that he remains alive, irrespective of reports that he died in June this year.
Shekau was pronounced dead by the Joint Task Force (JTF) in August following gunshot wounds he suffered during an encounter with operatives of the JTF in June.
But Shekau in the video Wednesday said his sect was responsible for the attack in Benisheikh, Borno State, where 160 people were affected last week.
In the online video, Shekau dressed in a military uniform, while abusing President Goodluck Jonathan, US President, Barack Obama, President Fancois Hollande of France and Queen Elizabeth of England, said the leaders should be ashamed for apparently believing that he was dead.
He was reported to have said: “They said I am dead, but here I am. The world should know that I am alive and will only die at the appointed time. Everybody should be judged according to the dictates of his conscience.
“What I am doing is written in the Holy Qur’an and the Hadith and I will not stop. I challenge all the clerics of the world to question my deeds. Those underrating my capacity should have a re-think. I will never allow democracy to thrive.
“The concept of government of the people by the people for the people will never be possible and will never exist. Democracy shall be replaced only by the government of Allah, from Allah and for Allah.”
Shekau boasted that the Nigerian will never be able to defeat his group.
Responding to the claim, the Army Public Relations Unit was reported to have promised to watch the video clips.
