Boko
Haram, has vowed that “from now
on, killing, slaughtering,
destruction and bombing’’ would
be its religious duty anywhere it
invades.
The group, in a new video released
to journalists on Saturday, showed
its armed members mowing down
civilians lying face down in a
dormitory.
The setting of the latest video
appeared to be a long school
dormitory furnished with bunk
beds which an unnamed leader of
the group claimed was in Bama, a
town 40 miles north of Gwoza,
Borno State.
The leader of the sect was heard
saying that they were killing
‘infidels’ or non-believers.
The Mailonline which published a
story on the chilling video ,
reported that there were “so many
corpses the gunmen had difficulty
stepping to reach bodies still
twitching with life.”
It quoted the Boko Haram leader
as also saying that they had made
sure the floor of the dormitory was
turned red with blood to show
“how it is going to be in all future
attacks and arrests of infidels “
According to the Mailonline, the
start of the video shows the
Islamists enter the building where
the victims, mostly adult males,
lay.
It added that the video came two
days after fleeing villagers
reported that the extremists were
rounding up elderly people and
killing them in two schools in
Gwoza.
In it, the unnamed sect leader, who
noted that Prophet Mohammed
advised prisoners should be held,
not killed, said, ‘‘we felt this is not
the right time for us to keep
prisoners.’’
He added that that was why the
group would “continue to see that
the grounds are crimsoned with
the flowing blood of prisoners.’’
According to him, even though
those killed may call themselves
Muslims, the sect considers them
as “infidels.”
Previously, the militants had told
residents of villages and towns
that they would kill only enemies
since they wanted people to live
peacefully in an area they dubbed
an Islamic caliphate.
The sect had in its last video,
threatened to attack the Emir of
Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, for
mobilising support against it.
Sanusi had in statements asked
Kano State residents as well as
vigilantes to arm and defend
themselves against future terror
attacks following a recent attack
by suspected members of the
group on the Kano Central
Mosque.
The group’s leader, Abubakar
Shekau, condemned Sanusi and
adherents of most Islamic sects,
describing them as infidels who
had abandoned the Islamic
doctrine.
Shekau had said, “Before I start
talking to my brothers who
believed in me and the religion of
Allah, not the religion of
democracy, not that of western
education, those who believed in
the religion of the Quran not that
of the constitution and not religion
of the Emir of Kano.
“We do not practise the religion of
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, not the
religion of Jonathan, not the
religion of Obasanjo, not the
religion of Atiku, not the religion of
Babangida, not the religion of
Obama, not the religion of Bush,
not the religion of Clinton, but the
religion of Allah.
“Now listen to me Emir of Kano. I
am talking to you and only you
because of your recent utterances.
Let me inform you now that you
are late (dead), you should know
that you are only the King of Kano,
King of Central Bank, King of
money, you are only Sanusi
Lamido.”
He also said, “Emir of Kano
Sanusi, you are late, that our
triumph is just for a period of time
so you said. Even your
predecessors who are renowned
idol worshippers in Islamic history
like ‘Abujahal’ could not succeed
in fighting Islam.
“Yes, you can say that our success
is for a period of time, because you
are a king of Bank and a loyal
citizen of your country.
“Because you are made the Emir of
Kano, that is why you got angry
and was calling on the vigilante
groups and hunters to attack us.
Let me tell you that the hunters
and the vigilante groups will fail
and you will also fail.”
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