The leader of the Boko Haram sect Abubakar Shekau in a video message has claimed responsibility for the bomb blast which rocked Nyanya district of Abuja on April 14, 2014.
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“We are the ones that carried out the attack in Abuja,” Shekau said in the 28-minute video obtained by the AFP on Saturday, April 19, 2014.






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