[ April 26, 2024 ]
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram behind schoolboys’ abduction – audio message
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Pupils who escaped kidnap on Friday, by jumping over the fence of the Government Science secondary school in Katsina state in northwestern Nigeria and fleeing through a forest, said the attackers were armed with Ak-47 assault rifles and rounded up their victims before marching them off.
Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is forbidden” in the local Hausa language, has waged an insurgency in the northeast of Nigeria since 2009 but has not previously claimed attacks in the northwest.
The claims in the audio tape, if true, could mark a widening influence of jihadist groups operating in northeastern Nigeria, political analysts said.
Story continues below advertisementThey could also signal that jihadists have formed alliances with militant groups operating in the Sahel, which could further destabilise the impoverished north of Africa’s most populous nation which plays a pivotal role in regional stability.
Katsina state authorities said about 320 boys were missing and Nigeria’s government said it had spoken to the kidnappers, who have sought a ransom from at least one parent.
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“We’re begging the government to please try their best to get their release,” Hajiya Ummi, whose 15-year-old son Mujtaba is among those missing, said by telephone from her home in Bakori town in Katsina.
“His friends told me he was sick in bed when the bandits struck. He could hardly move but they dragged him out with the rest of the abducted students,” she said, her voice cracking with emotion
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In an audio message which reached Reuters via a WhatsApp message, a man purporting to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said: “We are behind what happened in Katsina.”
“What happened in Katsina was done to promote Islam and discourage un-Islamic practices as Western education is not the type of education permitted by Allah and his holy prophet,” he said.
No video footage was released of the missing boys.
The man offered no proof for his statement. Reuters was unable to verify the audio and Nigerian authorities did not immediately comment.
A security source told Reuters Boko Haram was not itself involved in the abduction, but that the kidnappers could have sold the boys to the Islamist group.
Spokesmen for the presidency, police and army did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Cheta Nwanze, lead partner at Lagos-based risk consultancy SBM intelligence, said huge swathes of northwest Nigeria were ungoverned spaces where arms and people moved freely across porous borders.
Nearby Burkina Faso has descended into chaos as Islamist groups with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State exploit ethnic grievances and government neglect of the arid north.
On Monday, an attack blamed on Boko Haram killed 28 people and burned 800 homes in the southern Diffa region of Niger, which borders Nigeria to the north.
“There is a danger that jihadists operating in the Sahel could potentially build alliances with groups that have previously remained in northeast Nigeria. That would further destabilise the region,” Nwanze said.
Boko Haram carried out the 2014 kidnap of more than 200 girls from a school in the northeastern town of Chibok. About half the girls have been found or freed, dozens have been paraded in propaganda videos, and some are believed to be dead.
More than 30,000 people have been killed since Boko Haram began its insurgency, aimed at creating an Islamic state.
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9 Comments
3 years ago
Will be an everyday event in the Democrats open borders USA starting January 21, 2021.
3 years ago
But what does international law say about muslums persecuting/raping/oppressing/slaughtering/enslaving their kafir population? If the OIC and their lapdog org. the UN support it doesn’t that mean such muslum behaviour has the sanction of international law?
3 years ago
May God protect the innocent. Boko Haram cells should be destroyed like Isis was.
But……The Corpse that will seat on the throne doesn´t have the cojones to do it.
3 years ago
As always, Africa stands back and does nothing. What a useless place.
3 years ago
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The French Army is current fighting Muslims in the Central African Republic!
3 years ago
Pisslam needs to be wiped off the face of the Earth.
3 years ago
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3 years ago
ANNIHILATE THESE SCUM!
3 years ago
Call Michelle…remember #BringBackOurGirls? THEY NEVER CAME BACK AND OBAMA DID NOT LOOK FOR THEM
