Abubakar Shekau, factional leader of the Boko Haram sect, has mocked the Nigeria and its national pledge.
He called it “shirk” which in Islam means the sin of idolatry or worshiping of anyone or anything other than God.
In excerpts posted on Twitter on Tuesday, Ahmad Salkida, an investigative journalist, said Shekau was seen in the video clutching an AK 47 rifle as he read a prepared speech in Arabic about the doctrines of the insurgent sect.
Sakilda, however, wrote: “The factional leader of Boko Haram that has been weakened by an internal feud that led to the emergence of another faction in 2016 and persistent military campaign by the Nigerian Army and the Multinational Joint Task Force appeared to have impaired eyesight as he struggled to read his group’s ideology in Arabic, while intermittently reciting Nigeria’s National pledge in English, which he repeatedly said was an act of Shirk.
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“The 35-minute long speech in Arabic, according to analyst, may be targeted at the international jihadi community, and not the local audience in the #LakeChad region because #BokoHaram has been made a pariah terror group, following feuds between Shekau and several warlords that gainsaid his more extreme ideology, especially the use of women and children as suicide bombers in Muslim places of worship, Internally Displaced Persons camps and markets.”
