Shekau Burns Nigeria Flag

Leader of the Boko Haram, Abubakar
Shekau has released a disturbing video in
which he was seen torching the Nigerian
flags even as he displayed cache of arms
and ammunition seized from the Nigeria
Army in Baga, Borno state.

Shekau had also in the 36 minutes video
declared the All Progressives Congress
(APC) Presidential candidate, General
Muhammadu Buhari, and President
Goodluck Jonathan as enemies and infidels
who Nigerians are celebrating ignorantly.
The leader of the Boko Haram whom the
military had claimed to have killed in couple
of times, was dressed in full military kit
with an assault rifle hanging across his
chest as he held a spiral bind booklet from
which he read out his statement that lasted
17 minutes in Arabic. Thereafter he spoke
for about seven minutes in Hausa.
Shekau, who was priding off the disturbing
number of arms and ammunition his group
allegedly seized from soldiers in Baga
ridiculed soldiers of the Nigeria army as
weaklings who are hiding under the lies that
they don’t have enough arms to prosecute a
war against his group.
He also warned that more killings and
attacks would soon be recorded around towns
and villages in Nigeria.
He said in Hausa, “We thank God for
making us enter Baga and Doro-Baga in
victory. We have today declared Baga as
part of our territory and one of our
operational base”
“Jonathan you are in trouble. all governors
of Nigeria are in trouble. All these war
equipment that you see being displayed in the
screen are gotten from Baga and Doro. Your
army kept deceiving the world that you can’t
fight us because you have no arms. Liars!
You have all that it takes; you are just
coward soldiers. You forgot that it is God
that arms. Is it not amazing that we who
started with sticks and machetes, are today
the biggest headache to the almighty Nigerian
soldiers? What a shame!!
“Jonathan, is it not shameful that now, even
your supporters are insulting and cursing
you? This should be a sermon to the world,
that you should not trust on humans. Any
one that trusts a man will end up regretting.
This is just the beginning of the killings;
what you’ve just witnessed is a tip of the
iceberg; more deaths are coming. This will
mark the end of politics and democracy in
Nigeria. This is to confirm to you that we
carried out the Baga massacre, and we are
going to do more.
“Nigerians are busy with politics, hailing
Buhari! Buhari, Jonathan! Jonathan!. Do you
think the two of them are spared? Do you
think even Buhari is a good muslims?
Buhari is not a muslim as far as we are
concerned – He is nothing but an infidel and
our enemy.
“Muhammed Yusuf, the president of Niger,
so you too have the temerity of coming out to
pay sympathy visit to the Francois Holland
the President of France. Is this your true
character? Muhammed Yusuf, you have
amazed us. You shall soon see our wrath,
very soon.
“And you, Paul Biya, the president of
Cameroon. Now you are asking for foreign
assistance; please don’t waste your time
because God is more than all the helps you
will get.
“And even you Idris Debby, you are not
spared. You guys have acted too late. very
late .
“Before I end my speech; I want to react to
a radio broadcast from France where the
French said they are enemies of Islam and
the prophet of Islam. I am going to read the
France statement (he tried reading a French
statement) In that broadcast the French
government and people after insulting the
holy prophet of Islam said a war against
terrorisms is the same as fighting muslims.
“After this I will be setting ablaze the
Nigerian flag just like we always do in all
the places that we have conquered. It is a
useless flag whose relevance would soon be a
thing of the past. We are now showing the
world all the arms and ammunitions that we
got from the Nigeria army barracks in Baga,
Doron-Baga, Mile-4 and this barrack.
What we have in our armoury now, plus all
that we had before is enough to execute a
victorious war against the whole Nigeria.
Shekau was later shown in the video setting
a Nigerian flag on fire, and hoisting a Boko
Haram flag. He then lifted a black flag with
Arabic inscription as he recited an altered
version of the first few lines of the Nigeria
National Anthem, speaking in English:-
‘I pledge to Allah, my God. To be Faithful
Loyal and Honest. To serve Allah with all
my strength. To defend his Islam… Allahu
Akbar!! Nigeria is dead; her constitution is
dead!! Islam and Islam; war by war upon
the Kafir who is the unbeliever”.
The remaining video showed members of
Boko Haram torching Nigerian flag and
reciting a Quranic verse that says “and say
the truth has come and false has vanished;
for surely all falsehoods are bound to
vanish”.
Then a Boko Haram member dressed in long
gown with a turban around his head was
seen walking over a cache of displayed arms
and ammunitions, while he narrated how the
arms were obtained.
“All these arms and ammunition you see in
their thousands are gotten from Baga. We
thank God for makind this possible because
He says we should always thank Him for
every good thing he does and He shall give
us more. words cannot express our gratitudes
to Him. It is His mercy for us that is why
we got them so easily. God says He would
test us with all that He gives us; so we
know God will be waiting to see what we
would do with these things. Insha Allahu we
are going to do His work with these arms at
our disposal. We are going to sacrifice our
lives in doing God’s work.
“As you can see we have thousands of AK
47 rifles, we have so much that we are still
conveying them to our camp here. We have
AA, we have different kind of them that can
be mounted on vehicles. We Shell Car; we
have RPGs; We have mag and so on. we
cannot just mention them. We have dozens of
vehicles and tanks that God has given us”.
The video panned over a disturbing
assemblage of ammunition many of them in
boxes that could be counted in thousands.
More and more ammunitions were displayed
in the bushes and under shrubs. Background
voices of Boko Haram members kept on
chanting Allahu Akbar, Allahu as the man
conducting the camera around kept speaking
in Hausa and some times in Kanuri
language.
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