MAIDUGURI-- Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has claimed responsibility for June 25 bomb attacks in Lagos and Abuja which claimed several lives. Five persons died in the Lagos explosion which occurred very close to Folawiyo tank farm while that of Abuja which went off in a shopping mall killed 22 persons. Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, in a 16-minute video obtained by AFP yesterday also mocks the social media and protest campaign, BringBackOurGirls, which emerged after the Islamists kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls on April 14 from Chibok. The girls, whose abduction has drawn unprecedented attention to Boko Harams five-year rebellion, are not pictured in the video, which was given to AFP through similar channels as past messages. One previous recording showed more than 100 of the hostages, some of whom are Christian, reciting Muslim prayers. Shekau also said his loyalists carried out twin car bombings in May in Jos and a June attack at a college in Kano. We were the ones who detonated the bomb in filthy Abuja, Shekau said in the video referring to a June 25 attack on a popular shopping centre in Abuja that killed at least 22 people. Later that day a huge explosion also rocked the Apapa, which the authorities blamed on a cooking gas explosion, with no casualties. A bomb went off in Lagos. I ordered the bomber who went and detonated it, Shekau says in the video, which shows him flanked by at least 10 gunmen in front of two armoured personnel carriers and two pick-up trucks. You said it was a fire incident, he added. Well, if you hide it from people you cant hide it from Allah. Shekau, in boasting about the Lagos attack, incorrectly identifies the Governor of Lagos State, taunting Adams Oshiomhole, who is in fact the Governor of Edo State. Lagos State is governed by Babatunde Fashola. Declared a global terrorist by the United States and sanctioned by the UN Security Council, Shekau is thought to have previously claimed credit for attacks that he did not directly order.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:17:09 +0000
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