How Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau was
killed – Investigations
on september 22, 2014 at 8:38 pm in news
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KINGSLEY OMONOBI-ABUJA.
Details of how Abubakar Shekau, the impostor
and leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group lost
his left in a shootout with Nigerian troops in
Konduga on Wednesday Sept. 17 emerged
yesterday with military sources disclosing that he
met his waterloo in an ambush reminiscent of the
type the sect had been using to hack down
Nigerian troops.
Vanguard gathered that when the first attack on
Konduga whereby hundreds of insurgents were
taken unawares and killed after over seven hours
of fighting and several of their colleagues, arms
and ammunition captured, the military
commanders strategically urged his captured
members to send a message to Shekau that they
(insurgents) have routed the troops.
Before the captured insurgents were urged to
make the contact and deliver the message, the
military commanders had promised them that
their cooperation would play a role in the level of
punishment to be meted to them after the battle
hence they felt reassured.
Also, the captured insurgents had disclosed that
Shekau usually moved in a convoy of cars painted
in military colours while he sits in a MOWAG
Armoured tank with Boko Haram inscription on its
front.
When Shekau was contacted, his captured men
spoke to him in Arabic, assuring him that they
had taken over Konduga, thereby giving him the
all clear to proceed from Sambisa Forest. To
convince him further, a set of his men captured
were told to sing the victory song in Kanuri
language they normally sing at the background.
Having convinced himself that the messenger was
his chief courier in such situation and the
message is authentic, he and his followers made
for Konduga, heavily armed with Anti-Aircraft
weapons, General Purpose Machine Guns, several
AK 47 rifles and other IEDS’.
However, on entering Konduga town, he and his
followers were encircled by strategically placed
and heavily armed Nigerian soldiers. Immediately
he contacted the messenger and discovered that
something was amiss, he ordered his followers to
start shooting in all direction.
This spurred the Army Commanders to give the
directive to open fire. When he discovered that
the fire power of the Nigerian Army who used
both Infantry and Artillery weaponry was
overpowering that of his men, he jumped out of
the MOWAG and made to escape.
But eagle-eyed Nigerian Soldiers spotted him and
opened fire in him, shattering his legs in the
process. It was learnt that he also received bullet
wounds in other parts of his body leading to his
bleeding to death.
Recall that Military sources had on Sunday night
disclosed that Nigerian troops scored a strategic
victory in the current battle against terrorists
operating in the North East on September 17.
The sources noted that during a desperate
attempt to capture Konduga in their delusion to
eventually marching on and capturing Maiduguri,
the man who had been mimicking Late Abubakar
Shekau in recent videos was feared to have been
finally killed.
The sources said, “It is getting more certain that
the terrorists’ Commander who has been
mimicking Shekau in those videos is the one killed
in Konduga on September 17, 2014.”
Affirming the development, PRNigeria sources said
the suspected demise of the Boko Haram leader
is responsible for the scattering of the sect
members in different independent locations in the
neighbouring countries, especially in Cameroon
noticed in recent days.
The security sources noted further that “the
process of confirming that the dead body we have
is the same as that character who has been
posing as Shekau is ongoing” adding “He is
definitely a prominent terrorist commander. I
don’t want to say anything about this yet
please.”
Another high ranking military source insisted that
the resemblance is too striking to be a
coincidence.
“They cited his facial marks, beards and teeth
apart from the recovery by the Nigerian troops of
some of the Armoured Vehicles and Hilux jeeps
that had featured in previous videos of the prime
suspect.
“The officers assured that the Defence
Headquarters will soon address the nation after
full investigation of their latest discovery”.
Meanwhile, the Defence headquarters yesterday
dismissed insinuation that Cameroonian military
personnel carried out raids on Boko Haram
terrorists into border communities in Nigeria.
According to a report posted on its twitter handle,
DHQ said “There was no raid whatsoever in any
part of Nigeria’s territory in pursuit of terrorists
as claimed in some reports allegedly quoting
Cameroon military authorities”.
“All operations ongoing in the environs of
Konduga & all associated border location within
the country are completely being undertaken by
Nigerian troops
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