The Boko Haram menace in Nigeria. SHEKAU CLAIMED his sect carried out Abuja Bombings
A screengrab taken on April 19,
2014, from a video obtained by
AFP. The leader of Nigeria's Boko
Haram Islamists Abubakar Shekau
claimed responsibility for a
bombing in Nigeria's capital that
killed at least 75 people, in a video
message obtained by AFP on April
19. AFP PHOTO
The group released its new video to
journalists in northeast Nigeria
Saturday, hours after the AFP news
agency published highlights of the
clip.
In the video, Shekau admitted
responsibility for the Nyanya
bombing which officials say claimed
more than 75 lives and injured over
a hundred.
Witnesses and reporters, however,
put the casualty figure far higher.
Shekau, who appeared in the video,
as usual, clad in a military attire, with
a long dark cap strapped with a dark
turban, with an AK-47 rifle across his
chest, spoke boastfully about the
prowess of his group and how
vulnerable the Nigerian nation is to
him and his men.
He described the Nyanya blast as
"tiny incident" , which according to
him does not merit the global
condemnation that it has generated.
He said the attack was just the
beginning of more attacks on the
nation, adding that it was a general
reprisal for all the killing Muslims
across the country and the world
suffer "in the hands of infidels" .
Reading from a few pages of a white
spiral-bounded papers held with his
left hand, the deadly Boko Haram
leader continued to point
threateningly with a thick chewing
stick held in his right hand.
Shekau heaped scorn, as usual, on
President Jonathan whom he told in
the video that his group have been
within Abuja, yet they can never by
found.
He spoke at top of his voice into the
camera, laughing sarcastically.
"Let the world know that we were
responsible for the bombing within
Abuja in an area called Nyanya.
[President] Jonathan, you are a lame
duck. Jonathan, you are now too
small for us. We can only deal with
your grand masters like Obama the
president of America. Even they
cannot do anything to us. We are
more than them," he said.
"Yes, we did it. We carried out the
attack because you kill Muslims in
Plateau. You kill Muslims in every
country of the world. Why don't you
global tyrants talk when Muslims are
killed in Afghanistan? Why don't you
talk when Muslims were killed in
Iraq? And they are still being killed.
Why don't you talk when Muslims are
killed in the Islamic state of Iraq and
Syria, and now Yemen, Mali,
Azerbaijan, Shishan, Pakistan?" he
asked.
"Why were you not complaining
when our Muslim brethren were
killed in Plateau, their wives were
forcefully taken and raped, and if
they give birth, their children were
being killed? So because of that tiny
incident that happened in Abuja,
everybody is out there making an
issue out of it across the globe.
"We want you, Jonathan, to know
that we are worshipping only God
that is why we are always victorious
in all our attacks; stupid fellow like
you; if you are that wise, why is it still
very difficult for you to locate where
we are up till date despite the fact
that we are within Nigeria. Look at us
we are right within your city; and you
don't even know how to find us. Let
me tell you now. I am here very close
to you. I dare you to get me, if you
can.
"You cannot do anything. Remember
that this is the exactly the fifth year
that you boasted that you were going
to finish with us in just three months;
so we are not bothered with any
further boasting that you will make
now because what you cannot
accomplish in five years, is very
difficult to achieve now, never!
"We will not stop until our aim is
achieved; so everyone that calls
himself a Muslim should stop
obeying the constitution, should
leave democracy, should stay away
from western education.
"We are the bombers of Nyanya. Yes,
we are the bombers. If you really
want to know who did it, let me tell
you now. It was Shekau that did it."
Chuckling and tapping his chest, he
said, "This is me, Abubakar Shekau,
whose turban you don't like seeing,
whose armoured shirt you so much
hate. This is my usual gun with which
I kill. Get more annoyed, because I
am still here. Yes, I am the Shekau
that does not like Christians, and I
don't like Muslims that relate with
Christians.
"We have been commanded by Allah
not to associate with infidels because
they cannot be trusted until they
accept your religion. So you cannot
say you are a believer and then you
go and follow democracy; we cannot
allow you to ridicule the religion of
God; never!
"I am not afraid of death; and I pray
that God should let me be killed by
an unbeliever so that I can gain His
paradise. We don't love this sinful
world of yours; we want to die and
go to the presence of Him who
created everyone so that we can
enjoy ourselves.
"I don't care if you call me a liar, a
mad man or a stupid person; all I
know is that you all are ignorant".
"We are the ones that carried out the
Abuja operation and every other
recent attacks. Today whereever you
are, if you don't follow the way of
Allah, these calamity will befall you.
Jonathan if you don't repent and
follow the path of God, you will find
yourself alone before your creator.
"Yes, I am the dreaded Shekau: the
one even Obama fears; not even
Obama, even if Pharaoh were alive
today he would reckon with me
[laughs]. To hell with the United
Nations, to hell with Ban Ki Moon; to
hell with Obama. Yes we did the
bombing in Nyanya, we did it."
2014, from a video obtained by
AFP. The leader of Nigeria's Boko
Haram Islamists Abubakar Shekau
claimed responsibility for a
bombing in Nigeria's capital that
killed at least 75 people, in a video
message obtained by AFP on April
19. AFP PHOTO
The group released its new video to
journalists in northeast Nigeria
Saturday, hours after the AFP news
agency published highlights of the
clip.
In the video, Shekau admitted
responsibility for the Nyanya
bombing which officials say claimed
more than 75 lives and injured over
a hundred.
Witnesses and reporters, however,
put the casualty figure far higher.
Shekau, who appeared in the video,
as usual, clad in a military attire, with
a long dark cap strapped with a dark
turban, with an AK-47 rifle across his
chest, spoke boastfully about the
prowess of his group and how
vulnerable the Nigerian nation is to
him and his men.
He described the Nyanya blast as
"tiny incident" , which according to
him does not merit the global
condemnation that it has generated.
He said the attack was just the
beginning of more attacks on the
nation, adding that it was a general
reprisal for all the killing Muslims
across the country and the world
suffer "in the hands of infidels" .
Reading from a few pages of a white
spiral-bounded papers held with his
left hand, the deadly Boko Haram
leader continued to point
threateningly with a thick chewing
stick held in his right hand.
Shekau heaped scorn, as usual, on
President Jonathan whom he told in
the video that his group have been
within Abuja, yet they can never by
found.
He spoke at top of his voice into the
camera, laughing sarcastically.
"Let the world know that we were
responsible for the bombing within
Abuja in an area called Nyanya.
[President] Jonathan, you are a lame
duck. Jonathan, you are now too
small for us. We can only deal with
your grand masters like Obama the
president of America. Even they
cannot do anything to us. We are
more than them," he said.
"Yes, we did it. We carried out the
attack because you kill Muslims in
Plateau. You kill Muslims in every
country of the world. Why don't you
global tyrants talk when Muslims are
killed in Afghanistan? Why don't you
talk when Muslims were killed in
Iraq? And they are still being killed.
Why don't you talk when Muslims are
killed in the Islamic state of Iraq and
Syria, and now Yemen, Mali,
Azerbaijan, Shishan, Pakistan?" he
asked.
"Why were you not complaining
when our Muslim brethren were
killed in Plateau, their wives were
forcefully taken and raped, and if
they give birth, their children were
being killed? So because of that tiny
incident that happened in Abuja,
everybody is out there making an
issue out of it across the globe.
"We want you, Jonathan, to know
that we are worshipping only God
that is why we are always victorious
in all our attacks; stupid fellow like
you; if you are that wise, why is it still
very difficult for you to locate where
we are up till date despite the fact
that we are within Nigeria. Look at us
we are right within your city; and you
don't even know how to find us. Let
me tell you now. I am here very close
to you. I dare you to get me, if you
can.
"You cannot do anything. Remember
that this is the exactly the fifth year
that you boasted that you were going
to finish with us in just three months;
so we are not bothered with any
further boasting that you will make
now because what you cannot
accomplish in five years, is very
difficult to achieve now, never!
"We will not stop until our aim is
achieved; so everyone that calls
himself a Muslim should stop
obeying the constitution, should
leave democracy, should stay away
from western education.
"We are the bombers of Nyanya. Yes,
we are the bombers. If you really
want to know who did it, let me tell
you now. It was Shekau that did it."
Chuckling and tapping his chest, he
said, "This is me, Abubakar Shekau,
whose turban you don't like seeing,
whose armoured shirt you so much
hate. This is my usual gun with which
I kill. Get more annoyed, because I
am still here. Yes, I am the Shekau
that does not like Christians, and I
don't like Muslims that relate with
Christians.
"We have been commanded by Allah
not to associate with infidels because
they cannot be trusted until they
accept your religion. So you cannot
say you are a believer and then you
go and follow democracy; we cannot
allow you to ridicule the religion of
God; never!
"I am not afraid of death; and I pray
that God should let me be killed by
an unbeliever so that I can gain His
paradise. We don't love this sinful
world of yours; we want to die and
go to the presence of Him who
created everyone so that we can
enjoy ourselves.
"I don't care if you call me a liar, a
mad man or a stupid person; all I
know is that you all are ignorant".
"We are the ones that carried out the
Abuja operation and every other
recent attacks. Today whereever you
are, if you don't follow the way of
Allah, these calamity will befall you.
Jonathan if you don't repent and
follow the path of God, you will find
yourself alone before your creator.
"Yes, I am the dreaded Shekau: the
one even Obama fears; not even
Obama, even if Pharaoh were alive
today he would reckon with me
[laughs]. To hell with the United
Nations, to hell with Ban Ki Moon; to
hell with Obama. Yes we did the
bombing in Nyanya, we did it."
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