Boko Haram: UNIMAID Bomb Victims Were Infidels

Boko Haram members with leader Shekau

In an audio that went viral yesterday, a voice which is supposedly that of Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, praised the bombing, declared that Boko Haram was responsible for it and promised more of such attacks. In the speech which was in Hausa language, the speaker called the victims of the attacks ‘infidels in mosques’ because they supported the political participation of Muslims in the democratic system. The speaker said with no remorse, “The act of participating in politics is worse than homosexualism”. The speaker in the audio once again said that he was Shekau and that he has not been killed contrary to what the government has said in the past. The voice also said the audio was recorded on the evening of the day of the attack. The speaker called on Muslim scholars who criticize the activities of Boko Haram to bring their proofs that the group is a deviant one. He also lashed out at President Muhammadu Buhari calling him the leader of an infidel land. It would be re-called that prior to the Presidency of Buhari, Boko Haram once called on him to mediate between them and the government of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan; Buhari declined. On Monday (16th January 2017), a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in the Central Mosque of the University of Maiduguri Borno state killing five and injuring fifteen others. Among the martyrs were a Professor of veterinary medicine and four students. Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the ISIS terrorist group in 2015.