LAGOS – A man claiming to be Boko Haram
leader Abubakar Shekau said more than 200
girls kidnapped by the group six months ago
had been “married off” to its fighters,
contradicting Nigerian government claims
they would soon be freed, AFP said on
Saturday.

Nigeria’s military says it killed Shekau a year
ago.

The insurgents usually give a copy of their
videos to the French news agency about a
day before they are posted online. The latest
is likely to raise doubts about whether talks
between a Boko Haram faction and the
government in neighbouring Chad will secure
the girls’ release.

The man claiming to be Shekau also denied
there was a ceasefire pending talks, and said
his group was holding a German hostage
kidnapped in the northeastern city of Gombe
in July.

Gunmen, widely assumed to be linked to
Boko Haram, kidnapped the teacher from a
technical college.
“We have married them off. They are in
their marital homes,” AFP quoted Shekau as
saying of the girls kidnapped from a
secondary school in northeast Nigeria in
April. “Don’t you know the over 200 Chibok
schoolgirls have converted to Islam? They
have now memorised two chapters of the
Koran.”


Shekau’s denial of the ceasefire appears
supported by the violence that has occurred
since the government announced it two
weeks ago. It also raises doubts about the
actual influence of Danladi Ahmadu, the man
with whom the government is negotiating.
The five-year-old campaign for an Islamic
state by Boko Haram, which has killed
thousands and whose name means “Western
education is sinful”, has become by far the
biggest menace to the security of Africa’s
biggest economy and top oil producer.
Boko Haram has attacked targets almost
every day for weeks and last week seized
control of Mubi, the home town of Nigeria’s
defence chief Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh.
It was Badeh who announced the ceasefire.
They robbed banks, burned down houses and
hoisted their black flag over the Emir’s
palace, killing dozens of people and forcing
thousands to flee, witnesses said.


A car bomb thought to be planted by Boko
Haram killed at least 10 people at a crowded
bus stop in Gombe on Friday morning,
emergency services said.
The government has blamed the violence on
Boko Haram's allied criminal networks that
the group cannot control. There are believed
to be several competing factions within the
group.

http://m.ewn.co.za/2014/11/01/Nigerias-purported-Boko-Haram-leader-says-has-married-off-girls-AFP

Nigerians wake up.You are been fooled by your ruling government.

hmmmn,afterall dy allowed dem to regroup and reinforce with there ceasefire stuff..... .ceasefire is a scam-asari dokubo