Abubakar Shekau, leader of terrorist group, Boko Haram has been sighted by vigilantes in Kala-Balge forest.
Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau
Following claims by the Nigerian Army that it has defeated Boko
Haram terrorists by capturing Camp Zero, security sources have now
revealed that Shekau has fled the Sambisa forest and is now hiding at
another location.
According to AFP report, it seems like the war is not yet over even
as President Muhammadu Buhari had announced on Christmas Eve that
months-long campaign had led to the “final crushing of Boko Haram
terrorists in their last enclave in Sambisa Forest”.
But yesterday, Boko Haram’s elusive leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a video to dispute the government’s claim.
“We are safe. We have not been flushed out of anywhere,” Shekau said in the 25-minute video, flanked by masked armed fighters.
Shekau and his men have reportedly fled to areas on the edge of the
forest, islets on Lake Chad as well as villages on the Cameroon border.
“They were sighted in large numbers in … the Kala-Balge area,” said a vigilante helping in the fight, referring to a region near Cameroon.
The head of the fishermen’s union in Borno state, the epicentre of
Boko Haram’s seven-year insurgency, said some fighters had regrouped on
Lake Chad, which straddles Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad.
It provides the jihadists with a “convenient sanctuary”, with its
400 islets covered with dense vegetation that makes aerial detection and
ground operations dangerous, Abubakar Gamandi said.
“The islets are between one and two square kilometres and the fresh water and abundant fish in the lake make them habitable,” said Gamandi, who has fished in Lake Chad for 40 years.
Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the leader of a Boko Haram faction recognised
by the Islamic State group, has already been living on the lake since
his group split from Shekau’s leadership in August, residents and
vigilantes say.
Should Shekau and his troops move there, it is unclear whether the two rival factions will end up battling each other.
Cameroonian troops have intensified their operations along their
nation’s frontier with Nigeria, where fleeing Boko Haram fighters have
also sought refuge, according to a vigilante in the Nigerian border town
of Banki.
“Cameroon has upped security along the border which has forced
fleeing Boko Haram (fighters) to head to Kala-Balge, where Nigerian
troops are deploying”, said the vigilante, who did not want to give his name.
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