Boko Haram release new video says "Nigeria should be ready for war"

Boko haram militants has a released a new video, denying the old video which the Nigerian Army obtained weeks ago, which displayed that they have surrender to Nigerian soldiers. In the old video their leader Abubakar Shekau shadowy appeared in a rare message looking dejected and frail.

The unverified video last week said his time in charge of the Nigerian jihadist group may be coming to an end. If the video indeed depicts Shekau, he appears thin and listless, delivering his message without his trademark fiery rhetoric.

However, in Friday’s message, Boko Haram maintained it was a potent fighting force, with fighters posing with AK-47s in front of Toy­ota Hilux pick-up trucks and a lorry mounted with a military cannon.


“You should know that there is no truce, there is no negotiations, there is no surrender,” an unidentified masked man wearing camouflage said in a prepared script in Hausa, in the video posted on YouTube.

“This war between us will not stop.” The video, which was of markedly better quality than Shek­au’s and included Arabic subtitles, featured nine masked Boko Haram fighters standing on sandy ground in an undisclosed desert location. It is unclear if the masked people in the video include the Boko Haram leader.

Shekau was still the head of the “West African wing”, said the masked man in the video, likening Boko Haram to the Islamist insur­gencies in Iraq, Libya and Syria.

Meanwhile, in March 2015, Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, another of the world’s most deadly terror organisations. But there were few signs Boko Ha­ram — now styled as Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) — has so far benefited from the partnership.