News have it now that the leader of Boko Haram is dead.

Abubakar Shekau is Dead, We’ve Killed Him”: Negotiating New Boss Abu Zamira Claims

Well time will tell....

Source
http://newsrescue.com/abubakar-shekau-is-dead-weve-killed-him-negotiating-new-boss-abu-zamira-claims/#axzz2ap1RGXid

Well lets see.
if this is true, it might be end to the Boko boys or is this poli-tricking

Is death ?

the story
BORNO—Sheikh Abubakar Shekau, leader of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has reportedly been shot and deposed by members of his own sect, Boko Haram.

A new leader, Abu Zamira Mohammed, who is the sect’s leader negotiating with the federal government has been appointed new leader by the group’s Shura Council.

The group also said that its ceasefire declaration is working, pointing out that there has not been any suicide bombing since the declaration. It noted its condemnation of the Yobe massacre where 40 students were killed, adding that some politicians now commit murder and ascribe it to Boko Haram

On the Kano blasts last Monday, which led to the death of about 45 people, the group blamed it on federal government’s tardiness in responding to the ceasefire agreement.

A joint report published yesterday, by Dr. Stephen Davis, a conflict resolution expert and an adviser to the last three Nigerian Presidents and Phillip van Niekerk, President of Calabar Africa, a strategic advisory company focusing on Africa, and former Editor of South Africa’s Mail & Guardian newspaper, in the US based online newspaper, huffingtonpost.com, quoted one Imam Liman Ibrahim, spiritual leader of Boko Haram, as saying that the change in leadership was prelude to peace negotiations with the federal government.

A faction of Boko Haram has entered into a back-channel dialogue with the government in the search for an elusive peace to a conflict that has seen multiple suicide bombings, attacks on government buildings and churches, and has claimed thousands of lives since 2011.

The Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Restoration of Peace in the North-East, Tanimu Turaki, last month announced that his committee had reached an “understanding for ceasefire” with members of the Jama’atu Ahlul Sunnah Lih Da’awa Wal Jihad, JAS, more commonly known as Boko Haram. JAS leadership also nominated five people to enter peace discussions with the Federal Government: Abu Liman Ibrahim, Abu Zamira Mohammed, Abu Adam Maisandari, Kassim Imam Biu and Mallam Modu Damaturu. In its press statement, JAS said the ceasefire would be in effect for 60 days, and that during the period, any attacks in its name or in the name of its leader, Imam Shekau, would be bogus attacks.

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Boko Haram has been in preliminary discussions with government emissaries since the organisation declared a ceasefire on June 26. Abu Zamira Mohammed told the paper that his group was still waiting for the Federal Government’s response to the ceasefire declaration. The contacts are still at an early, fragile stage, and there is no guarantee that the talks will achieve a breakthrough.

The writers said: “It has now come to light that Boko Haram’s leadership sent representatives to the capital Abuja on June 25, 2013 where they revealed to the government that Shekau was no longer their leader.”

Imam Liman Ibrahim, the spiritual leader of Boko Haram, explained that the teaching of Shekau was becoming increasingly harsh and began to depart from the Holy Qu’ran.

“It was harsh, harsh, harsh,” Imam Liman said when explaining the reasons for the change of leadership.

“The beheadings, the killings, the recent death of students … this is not the way of the Holy Qu’ran. We could tolerate it no longer.

“Imam Liman explained that Shekau was given a choice of joining the peace dialogue with the Nigerian government, forming his own sect or being killed. Several senior Boko Haram commanders including Shekau’s Chief of Security and personal bodyguard, Abdullahi Hassan, have claimed that Shekau has since been shot in the lower leg, thigh and shoulder,” the paper went on.

NewsRescue analysts predicted his death in this report on July 15:

Nigeria Chief Terrorist, Abubakar Shekau Appears Mentally Challenged In New Video
NewsRescue analysts have predicted that Shekau will soon either be killed or arrested/turned in for the $7 million bounty, if Nigeria continues its operation against the radical terrorists. There is evidence of lost morale and fragmentation among the remaining denuded terrorists. With an “animal” appearance Shekau’s demeanor compared to the past was more of a desperate violent talk with inverse relationship to capacity, the more violent your talk, usually, the less your capacity, experts said. Related: NewsRescue-New Video Shows Boko Haram Terror Capability and Training Before SoE

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The report said,” Shekau’s exact fate is not known. A video clip recovered from a Boko Haram camp in the Sambisa Forest Reserve in the northeast Nigeria, raided by the military on May 16, shows Shekau limping, providing confirmation of reports he had been shot.

“However, Shekau has been noticeably absent from recent public statements and is not one of the leaders who have engaged with government emissaries. It had been presumed that Shekau chose to voluntarily leave peace discussions in the hands of Boko Haram’s leadership group,” the duo wrote.

The JAS leadership were quoted as citing the Qu’ran as their inspiration for seeking peace. “In the Holy Qu’ran, Sura At Tauba: Wa-injanahuu-Lisalmi Faji Nahlahaa, we are encouraged to seek peace. The Holy Qu’ran also tells us it is good to negotiate. Sura At Nisa Ayih: Wa-sulhu Haira.”

In June, the Boko Haram leadership demanded that women held by the military under the state of the emergency in the north be released. President Jonathan authorised the release, which opened the door to the ceasefire and the peace dialogue.

The report also said “the Boko Haram leadership has appointed Abubakar Babasani Ibn Yusuf as spokesman to replace Zamirah. Babasani says the leadership has been consulting all senior commanders to assure compliance with the ceasefire. He said commanders as far afield as Niger, Chad, Sudan and Cameroon have agreed to the ceasefire and discussions with the Nigerian government on the subject of a peace deal.”

The June 26 ceasefire announcement has been accompanied by an absence of suicide bombings, giving credibility to the new leadership and their intention of signing a peace accord. However, the administration’s tardiness in responding to the group’s ceasefire announcement is believed to have precipitated three car bomb attacks in the northern city of Kano this week that left at least 15 people dead.

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Atuman-WANTEDOther attacks have persisted including the recent horrific killings of students in Yobe where about 40 students were incinerated in their school building. The latest Boko Haram statement is highly critical of the Yobe deaths and denies responsibility for the attacks.

The leadership blames such atrocities on politicians in the northeast whom they accuse of arming gangs and committing crimes in the name of Boko Haram.

Shekau was deputy leader under Boko Haram founder Imam Mohammed Yusuf who was captured in July 2009 in fighting in the northeast of Nigeria and executed by Nigeria’s Police force in what appears to have been an extrajudicial killing. The interrogation and Yusuf’s bullet-riddled body were filmed on video.

Yusuf’s death radicalized the Boko Haram leaders and led them to move underground and identify more closely with Al Qaeda. Following the founder’s killing, Shekau emerged as the new leader of a revitalised Boko Haram in 2010 and he and other commanders refocused the group towards global jihad.

overdrive: Is death

^^^Thats the point.

Other link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phillip-van-niekerk/abubakar-shekau-boko-haram_b_3690034.html

Hope its true?Then this would be the best news to kick start the new month

Men... Plenty stories. The question is where is the dead body? In fact the is too much procrastination on this stories. Na wao

OP,

Shey na your gbagaun kill am?

Then handover the body to JTF

Abeg stop embarrassing Nairaland with your headline! Modify that Death to Dead!! ....

of course the guy is always Death

Ofcos if he was unconcious b4, ur shelling post go kill am!.

Ofcos if he was unconcious b4, ur shelling post go kill am!.

mr_king: Abeg stop embarrassing Nairaland with your headline! Modify that Death to Dead!! ....

Hahahahahaha! very funny, can't believe i wrote that. Thanks for the correction.............

cogitoErgo: of course the guy is always Death

weather shakau is dead or not, another leader will emerge,so we should embrace for another terrorist activities..it is way of there life,they need to spill blood to appeals there god..when osama billaden was killed by America army,another leader was emerged,we all know what is going on across Iraq now,if sunni Muslim could go ahead and throw bomb into shia mosque in Iraq during period they termed as holy month,so what are we talking

Where is his body? If he is truly dead as dey claim, let dem (his gang) release his body to d military let d general public see

why am i finding it hard to bliv dis story?

What a load of crap...if he is dead show us evidence. Not all Nigerians are stupid. #smh

I refuse to believe it. It could be a propaganda to make him disappear while they seek Amnesty funds. It aint gonna happen. Shakau body has to be seen.

dem boko boys have gotten wiser.....did i just read that they killed forty because of tardiness?.....we can blame them for a lot but we cant fault their shrewdness in negotiations.....lmao....im in my house in lag where baba fash has no constitutional right to come deport me....popcorn and coke tins

this na wlcum development

What dead him?

to God be the glory. PIR to the dead

Shobayo Emma: to God be the glory. PIR to the dead

Why the reverse of your RIp??

Temismith: What dead him?

AK7 with lots of bullet deaded HIM

I read about it this afternoon as breaking news, ...but there's a BUT no proof

hmmm... simple tactic by the NA..the guy has been quiet for a while so some rumours need to come out about him so he can come out and deny as well as assert his leadership of the sect so the NA can have a lead again...just saying though

Billyonaire: I refuse to believe it. It could be a propaganda to make him disappear while they seek Amnesty funds. It aint gonna happen. Shakau body has to be seen.

GBAM

As long as say Huffington Post na Part of the news carrier,I refuse to believe!!

How d news take long lyk dis?

This cheering and sensitive news must be confirmed by forensic experts to prove that indeed Shekau is indeed DEAD! If eventually confirmed, kudos to Jonathan and the New Improved Nigerian Army for making good their promise that Boko Haram will be history soon! I am watching