…As security services rescue 223 vulnerable persons
Following fracas that led to the death of the leader of the factional Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau after a violent confrontation with some renegade Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) top commanders, a month and some weeks ago, the Boko Haram and ISWAP fighters have now reunited, PRNigeria reports.
According to a 13-minutes video, terrorists of the two groups reunited themselves after they individually placed their hands atop one another, while chanting words of solidarity, to demonstrate their reuniting and togetherness.
The groups also pledged their allegiance to one Aba Ibrahim Al-Hashimiyil AlKhuraishi, whom they unanimously ordained as ‘Khalifan Muslimai’, translated as “The Leader of all Muslims”.
In the same video, four insurgents from the defunct Boko Haram and ISWAP sects, declared their loyalty to the new commander in Arabic, Hausa, English and Fulfulde languages.
One of the speakers confirmed the report that intelligence services played critical roles in creating divisions in the camps of the terrorists, claiming that, “the enemies succeeded in dividing us, but we are now back.”
PRNigeria had reported how the immediate-past Chief of Military Intelligence of the Nigerian Army, Brig. Gen. Abdulrahman Kuliya, who died with the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, in an air mishap in the Kaduna last month, played decisive roles in the infiltration of terrorists’ factions, leading to violent confrontations among fighters of Boko Haram and ISWAP groups, and the eventual death of Shekau.
A top intelligence officer informed PRNigeria that in one of the joint coordinated security operations, over 223 vulnerable persons, including women and children, were rescued and undergoing rehabilitation.
Meanwhile, in the latest video released by Boko Haram, the terrorist element who first spoke, extended his greeting to their new Leader, Khuraishi, thanking him for bringing them together, eventually.
While pledging his loyalty, he said every member of Boko Haram and ISWAP should be happy that they were now united.
Another terrorist speaking in the Hausa language, ‘warmly’ greeted Al-Hashimiyil Khuraishi assuring that he and his colleague-insurgents will not flout his orders and commandments.
He expressed delight that they were now back as one ‘indivisible entity’, after the mutual hatred that hitherto divided them, gave way.
Another ISWAP fighter, who was wielding a sophisticated gun hung on his neck, thundered: “What is left now is Jihad. We will not stop fighting the unbelievers. All the disbelievers have entered trouble.”
According to the terrorist, every Boko Haram and ISWAP member must be ready to fight under the directive of their new Leader, for them to survive, and succeed.
By PRNigeria
