Militant Islamist group, Boko Haram, has
vowed that “from now on, killing, slaughtering, destruction and
bombing’’ would be its
religious duty anywhere it invades.
The group, in a new video released to
journalists on Saturday, showed its armed members mowing down
civilians lying face down in a dormitory.
The setting of the latest video appeared
to be a long school dormitory furnished with bunk beds which an
unnamed leader of the group claimed was in Bama, a town 40 miles
north of Gwoza, Borno State.
The leader of the sect was heard saying that they were killing ‘infidels’ or non-believers.
The Mailonline which published a
story on the chilling video , reported that there were “so many corpses
the gunmen had difficulty stepping to reach bodies still twitching with
life.”
It quoted the Boko Haram leader as also
saying that they had made sure the floor of the dormitory was turned red
with blood to show “how it is going to be in all future attacks and
arrests of infidels “
According to the Mailonline, the start of the video shows the Islamists enter the building where the victims, mostly adult males, lay.
It added that the video came two days
after fleeing villagers reported that the extremists were rounding up
elderly people and killing them in two schools in Gwoza.
In it, the unnamed sect leader, who noted
that Prophet Mohammed advised prisoners should be held, not killed,
said, ‘‘we felt this is not the right time for us to keep prisoners.’’
He added that that was why the group
would “continue to see that the grounds are crimsoned with the flowing
blood of prisoners.’’
According to him, even though those killed may call themselves Muslims, the sect considers them as “infidels.”
Previously, the militants had told
residents of villages and towns that they would kill only enemies since
they wanted people to live peacefully in an area they dubbed an Islamic
caliphate.
The sect had in its last video, threatened to attack the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, for mobilising support against it.
Sanusi had in statements asked Kano State
residents as well as vigilantes to arm and defend themselves against
future terror attacks following a recent attack by suspected members of
the group on the Kano Central Mosque.
The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau,
condemned Sanusi and adherents of most Islamic sects, describing them as
infidels who had abandoned the Islamic doctrine.
Shekau had said, “Before I start talking
to my brothers who believed in me and the religion of Allah, not the
religion of democracy, not that of western education, those who believed
in the religion of the Quran not that of the constitution and not
religion of the Emir of Kano.
“We do not practise the religion of
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, not the religion of Jonathan, not the religion of
Obasanjo, not the religion of Atiku, not the religion of Babangida, not
the religion of Obama, not the religion of Bush, not the religion of
Clinton, but the religion of Allah.
“Now listen to me Emir of Kano. I am
talking to you and only you because of your recent utterances. Let me
inform you now that you are late (dead), you should know that you are
only the King of Kano, King of Central Bank, King of money, you are only
Sanusi Lamido.”
He also said, “Emir of Kano Sanusi, you
are late, that our triumph is just for a period of time so you said.
Even your predecessors who are renowned idol worshippers in Islamic
history like ‘Abujahal’ could not succeed in fighting Islam.
“Yes, you can say that our success is for a period of time, because you are a king of Bank and a loyal citizen of your country.
“Because you are made the Emir of Kano,
that is why you got angry and was calling on the vigilante groups and
hunters to attack us. Let me tell you that the hunters and the vigilante
groups will fail and you will also fail.”
Source:Punch Newspaper
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