The reported killing of a top Boko Haram leader said to be Abubakar Shekau has again ignited another round of controversy between Nigerian and Cameroonian troops, and even concerned Nigerians.
Also, a top Nigerian military intelligence source has said the Boko Haram figure killed in a recent operation was not the REAL Shekau but Bashir Mohammed, leader of the Islamist sect’s Uye camp.
The late Mr. Bashir, who bore a striking resemblance to Abubakar Shekau, was killed as he led insurgents who were attempting to capture Konduga and then made a bid to seize Maiduguri.
* US President Barrack Obama promises to assist Nigeria in ending terrorism
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As Nigerians continue to expect the US Marines to arrive in the country
to assist the Nigerian military operatives in the fight against
terrorism, latest intelligence reports gathered by the US have added a
new twist to the missing 276 school girls in Chibok, Borno State.
According
to an article published by CNN today, the task of recovering the girls
appeared to grow more complicated with news that U.S. intelligence
believe the 276 girls might have been dispersed by the Boko Haram terror
group.
"We do think they have been broken up into smaller
groups," U.S. Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary,
was quoted in the report made public some minutes ago.
The American Navy man however, declined to reveal more detail on how U.S. officials came to the conclusion.
It could be recalled that this is not the first time that this
sentiment has been echoed, as some other concerned people have said
recently that the girls might already have been moved out of Nigeria
into neighbouring countries.
"The search must be in Niger,
Cameroon and Chad, to see if we can find information," former UK Prime
Minister Gordon Brown, the U.N.'s special envoy for global education,
told CNN few days ago.
"It's vital to use the information to find the girls before they are dispersed across Africa, which is a very real possibility."
The Islamic militant group, Boko Haram, which means ‘western
education is sinful’, has engaged in several atrocious enterprises but
their recent kidnapping of 276 girls from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, tops all forms of man's inhumanity to man and has brought amplifying world attention to their diabolical activities.
With
the US, France, China, and other countries joining hands with Nigeria,
it is the hope of everyone that the ruthless leader of the insurgents,
Abubakar Shekau, be captured and a crackdown of his ring of commanders.
We bring you a CNN's special feature on the dreaded Abubakar Shekau, rightly calling him a ruthless leader with a twisted ideology.
According to CNN:
He
is the face of terror. A ruthless leader with a twisted ideology. And
the sadistic architect of a campaign of mayhem and misery.
