Nigeria’s military on Saturday claimed further gains in its counter-offensive against Boko Haram, but the group’s leader Abubakar Shekau dismissed the talk of success as “lies”.

Army spokesman Sani Usman said troops destroyed more rebel enclaves and camps in the restive state of Borno, which has been worst hit by the six-year Islamist insurgency.

“The fight against the terrorists in the northeast is gaining successful momentum, with most of the camps falling to the Federal might,” he said in a statement.

A total of 62 people were rescued from around the town of Gwoza, which last year Boko Haram declared the headquarters of its caliphate but which it lost control of in March.

Some 77 men, women and children, most of them “haggard, dejected and obviously malnourished”, also arrived in the town of Bama on Saturday, Usman said.

One man picked up said he had his right hand cut off by militants in their Sambisa Forest stronghold in Borno last year, he said, adding that eight Boko Haram suspects surrendered to troops.

Nigeria’s military has claimed a series of successes against Boko Haram recently and on Friday said it had rescued 90 people and dislodged Boko Haram from two villages near Gwoza.

President Muhammadu Buhari in early August gave his new military commanders three months to defeat Boko Haram, after six years of violence, at least 15,000 dead and more than two million homeless.

Shekau has not been seen on video since February and until an audio message last month had not spoken since March, when he proclaimed Boko Haram’s allegiance to the so-called Islamic State group.

His absence sparked fresh rumours about whether he was still alive or had been deposed as leader, with other videos this year fronted by an unknown rebel under the name Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP).

Shekau said in a 25-minute recording in Hausa and Arabic via social media: “They (the military) lied that they have confiscated our arms, that we have been chased out of our territories, that we are in disarray.

“We are alive, I am alive, this is my voice, more audible than it was before. This is Shekau.”

He added: “Buhari is a liar and has deceived you. The army spokesman is also lying. He and his footsoldiers always run helter-skelter whenever we come face to face with them…

“Buhari, you once claimed that you will crush us in three months. How can you crush us?”

Shekau directly refers to IS group leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, to whom he says he is “loyal and subservient”.

He also namechecks IS spokesman Abu-Mohammed al-Adnani and sends “greetings to the faithful in Yemen”, where there is also an IS “affiliate”.

There was no indication of where or when the recording was made but it appears to have have been in recent days.

Shekau talks of Buhari’s “deal with Hollande”, referring to the Nigerian president’s three-day visit to Paris earlier this week, which included talks with his French counterpart Francois Hollande.

He also dismissed as untrue Buhari’s comments about “our brethren in prison”.

Buhari this week said the Nigerian authorities were talking to Boko Haram prisoners in their custody and could offer them amnesty if the group hands over more than 200 schoolgirls abducted last year.

Source: http://nigeriainfohub.com/nigerian-military-success-claims-over-boko-haram-are-lies-abubakar-shekau/

Hmmm

Hmmm

Coward

lol

Oloriburuku somebody

APC and Lies again?

well so far shekau is currently right. i think APC are fighting bh on newspaper

Did any one notice how he called Buhari

Not infidel or stewpyd government

If the international stories and local news is anything to go by

Shekau is lying

oya come out and overrun a single army barracks as you used to

lie muhammed , cum and tell.us lies again oo

come out and fight

dejavski:
APC and Lies again?

The Wailers are now siding and teaming up with SheCow. TANoids are jokers

egift:


The Wailers are now siding and teaming up with SheCow. TANoids are jokers

The masturbating Liars get thee behind me

We shall continue to support the fight against insurgency but the government should be honest with situation of things. Lying Liars...


Death to Boko Haram

Insurgency must be crushed in this nation. But we can't win this war with lies coming from the government.
American envoy said the same thing that Nigerian military is lying last week...
APC should tell us what's up

But back then Bokoharam was showing us good videos how they overrun army barracks and loot our armouries...

Back Then Shekau showed us good videos standing in front of Armoured Tanks and Jeeps to insult Nigeria..

Sorry Shekau I got paddies in the army fighting this war so I know what's going On...

Ride On My Gallant Soldiers

DaBullIT:
Did any one notice how he called Buhari

Not infidel or stewpyd government

If the international stories and local news is anything to go by

Shekau is lying

Above you, you are the only sensible postal here who sees beyond tribalism and political sentimentalism.

If the above many haters can't see that the purported Shekau tape is only a false, hurriedly put -together audio to boost morale in the face of resounding defeat, then they can never believe anything in their life.

Boko Haram has lost its bite, and from the story so far, you can see true the veil that it is a foreign sponsored organization now losing the war.

Ngasky:
oya come out and overrun a single army barracks as you used to

Dead men don't ride, my brother! That guy don die since...! Them just dey where im mask on someone else to come yarn for video tapes. Biut now, them no even get someone to yarn for for them again, naim make you no dey c am for video again so.

Chigold101:
Insurgency must be crushed in this nation. But we can't win this war with lies coming from the government.
American envoy said the same thing that Nigerian military is lying last week...
APC should tell us what's up

Make i hear word jare! They are lying, but we see the women and manourished children freed from Boko haram enclaves by the military. What about the multitudes of women freed so far from the Sambisa forest, whose footage has been widely seen on media bodies like Aljazeera? Did they just appear from thin air, or na stroll them stroll come from their? ;-/

The fact that a person do'nt like the government or the person of the President, should not be an excuse to deny reality. Boka haram has taken serious beating recently to the extent that the only reprisals they could muster, was suicide bombings in market places and refugees camps, as they could no longer carry out the large scale raids on military targets and civilian populations like before when they had control over many local governments.

The US embassy can say sh*t as she like, after all, they have never wanted the survival of Nigeria. It is completely useless and outright nonesense to even make reference to them when discussing Nigeria and Boko haram, knowing their motives against Nigeria.

GabrielSuswam:
But back then Bokoharam was showing us good videos how they overrun army barracks and loot our armouries...

Back Then Shekau showed us good videos standing in front of Armoured Tanks and Jeeps to insult Nigeria..

Sorry Shekau I got paddies in the army fighting this war so I know what's going On...

Ride On My Gallant Soldiers

thank you mister! Na sensible pikin you be...

Na audio naim come fit shekau to take talk now. See wetin defeat they do person. And even the wailers them they feel am too.

I dey laf o.

Up Nigeria!

Boko HARAM 's first leader was abubakar shekau which has been killed by the millitary. In terrorism, whoever will take the mantle of their leadership will bear the name Shakau. It's just a simple terrorist strategy.

Boko HARAM 's first leader was abubakar shekau which has been killed by the millitary. In terrorism, whoever will take the mantle of their leadership will bear the name Shakau. It's just a simple terrorist strategy.
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Appleyard:


Make i hear word jare! They are lying, but we see the women and manourished children freed from Boko haram enclaves by the military. What about the multitudes of women freed so far from the Sambisa forest, whose footage has been widely seen on media bodies like Aljazeera? Did they just appear from thin air, or na stroll them stroll come from their? ;-/

The fact that a person do'nt like the government or the person of the President, should not be an excuse to deny reality. Boka haram has taken serious beating recently to the extent that the only reprisals they could muster, was suicide bombings in market places and refugees camps, as they could no longer carry out the large scale raids on military targets and civilian populations like before when they had control over many local governments.

The US embassy can say sh*t as she like, after all, they have never wanted the survival of Nigeria. It is completely useless and outright nonesense to even make reference to them when discussing Nigeria and Boko haram, knowing their motives against Nigeria.

okay sir... What is the difference from what you hear now and what you heard in March this year during GEJ's twilight in government?

Thanks , I just call em how i see em

Appleyard:


Above you, you are the only sensible postal here who sees beyond tribalism and political sentimentalism.

If the above many haters can't see that the purported Shekau tape is only a false, hurriedly put -together audio to boost morale in the face of resounding defeat, then they can never believe anything in their life.

Boko Haram has lost its bite, and from the story so far, you can see true the veil that it is a foreign sponsored organization now losing the war.