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Boko Haram leader Shekau
“alive and well”
 September 23, 2014
Ahmed Salkida, a Dubai-based
Nigerian journalist who
reportedly maintains
communication with some
leaders of the Islamist insurgent
group Boko Haram, claimed
today that the sect’s leader,
Abubakar Shekau, is alive and
well. Mr. Salkida denied reports
asserting that Nigerian troops
had killed the mercurial and
fiendish Shekau, the speaker and
voice in numerous videos
released by Boko Haram.
In a tweet earlier today, Mr.
Salkida also dismissed media
reports that the Nigerian
government was negotiating
with Boko Haram for the release
of more than 200 schoolgirls
kidnapped in mid-April by Boko
Haram militants in Chibok, Borno
State. The reporter’s tweet also
described as untrue reports that
the International Red Cross (IRC)
was working on a deal that
would persuade Boko Haram to
free the abducted Chibok
schoolgirls in exchange for the
release of detained Islamist
insurgents in the custody of
Nigerian security agencies.
“Mark my words, I have it on
authority that Shekau is well &
alive, the picture going round is
NOT the person who torments us
with his group”
Earlier today, a source revealed
that the person whose dead
body is seen in photos
circulating in news reports was
not Shekau but one “Mohammed
Bashir”.
Our intelligence source stated
that the dead Islamist figure,
who bore a striking semblance
to Mr. Shekau, was indeed a look-
alike who appeared in videos
released by the Islamist sect.
Mr. Salkida’s tweet appeared to
confirm that the Boko Haram
“officer” killed by Nigerian
soldiers in Konduga was a
different person from Mr. Shekau.
In fact, Nigerian security officials
have maintained for months that
Mr. Shekau was dead, apparently
killed by his own disaffected
lieutenants in an internal rivalry
for control of the terrorist
organization. “Mark my words: I
have it on authority that Shekau
is well & alive, the picture going
round is NOT the person who
torments us with his group”
However, Salkida sent out
another tweet today which
appeared to cast doubt on the
fact that Shekau indeed had a
double. “So Shekau has a double?
So it was his double I met during
the failed attempt to negotiate an
end to the plight of #chibokgirls?
Oh #Nigeria”
A confidential debriefing
document by the Nigerian army
obtained last week by
SaharaReporters also
acknowledged that Mr. Shekau
stayed permanently in his
holdout in Sambisa Forest and
was not in the habit of venturing
out to battles. Item “R” of the
document stated, ”Shekau has
his wife and 2 children in
Sambisa Forest. He is Kanuri, he
speaks Hausa and he does not
travel.”
Meanwhile, a security source said
that there was evidence of a
growing frustration among
insurgent fighters and a
simmering power struggle
between some of the sect’s top
figures. He disclosed that some
of the insurgents who
surrendered to Nigerian troops
last week in Konduga have told
army interrogators that they
decided to give up after their
commander executed two of
their leaders who led the failed
attack on Konduga. The source
confirmed that the insurgents,
who are being kept in one of the
barracks in Maiduguri, told
interrogators that they fled from
a camp near Bama after their
commander shot dead two
insurgent field officers “for
losing valuable weapons to
infidels.” He added that the
surrendering militants claimed
they were reluctant and small-
time fighters who were recently
recruited from towns and
villagers taken by Boko Haram.
The insurgents’ foiled attempt to
seize Konduga, which was a first
step in their plan to attack the
Borno State capital, Maiduguri, is
being seen as a possible turning
point in the war between the
insurgents and increasingly
confident Nigerian soldiers.
Nigerian troops killed hundreds
of insurgents in the battle for
Konduga and also seized an
armored tank and several
vehicles from the Boko Haram
fighters. Incidentally, Boko Haram
insurgents had originally
captured thetank and vehicles
from the Nigerian army in
previous battles.
For close to two weeks, the
insurgents have not been able to
reproduce their earlier streak of
victories over Nigerian troops.
Instead, they have been routed in
Konduga and driven out of Baza
in Adamawa State. dailyindependentnig.com/2014/09/boko-haram-leader-shekau-alive-well/

I have been expecting this, of course Shekau is an official name for leadership of boko boys and every replacement, no matter how different they sound, act or appear will still proudly answer this cursed name and insist there is no controversy. The animal is dead but then another animal will take over the evil business.

False alarm and to think I was so glad #bullshiiit

For your mind @ OP

berem hope you are now happy?

they said your uncle shekau is still alive

see as the op put am "alive and well"
I swear to god all this silly unpatriotic cows wea no suppose be nigerians just type Antin were they see and some people ma go agree with them. I go surely deal with una time the come.

Na una corrupt dump mind the make some silly countries insult us anyhow.
@at op even though the idiot no die most u put live and well just to create topic abi na the mumu copy and paste were u do..........even though the cannibal release another video "it just on borrowed battery" to me.