Was Abubakar Shekau ever dead?
On August 2016, the Nigerian @HQNigerianArmy announced that the Air force had killed a number of senior #BokoHaram militants, including the terrorist group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau. tinyurl.com/y4mj7ojp
On August 2016, the Nigerian @HQNigerianArmy announced that the Air force had killed a number of senior #BokoHaram militants, including the terrorist group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau. tinyurl.com/y4mj7ojp
https://twitter.com/TheICIR/status/1327928099128872960
Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, the @HQNigerianArmy’s spokesperson at the time said in a statement that “their leader, so-called ‘Abubakar Shekau,’ is believed to be fatally wounded on his shoulders.” tinyurl.com/y4mj7ojp
Barely, a month later the wanted leader of the Nigerian Islamist group #BokoHaram released a video message refuting the claim by the military that he was killed or badly wounded in an airstrike. tinyurl.com/y4mj7ojp
The statement follows a trail of similar assertions made by the Nigerian military about the #BokoHaram leader in the past that were either false, misleading or lacked evidence. tinyurl.com/y4mj7ojp
In June 2013, Colonel Sagir Musa spokesperson of the Joint Task Force (JTF) elite fighting troops against insurgents in North East revealed that Shekau had been killed in a gun battle with JTF troops in one of their camps at Sambisa Forest on 30 June 2013. tinyurl.com/y4mj7ojp
Chris Olukolade, Defence spokesperson at the time announced to journalists in September 2014 that the Nigerian army had killed a man posing as #BokoHaram leader Abubakar Shekau, at the press briefing he also confirmed the death of #Shekau. tinyurl.com/y4mj7ojp
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