Nigerian troops can’t do anything to us, Boko Haram’s Shekau

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has stated that Nigerian security operatives cannot do anything to halt the Islamist sects bid to capture the North East of the country.

In a video message on YouTube directed to Cameroun president, Paul Biya, Shekau warned that the same fate would befell Nigeria will befall Cameroun if it does not stop its military assault on his fighters.

Shekau, in military fatigues and green rubber boots, speaks for more than 17 minutes in the video, flanked by four masked Boko Haram fighters, two of whom hold the militants’ black flags.

Two others fighters are seen standing on the back of pick-up trucks fitted with heavy machineguns. Shekau fires an assault rifle into the air at the end of his address.

There was no indication when the video — entitled “Message to President Paul Biya of Cameroun” — was shot or where.

It also used the group’s preferred Arabic name “Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad” or “People committed to the propagation of the Prophet’s teachings and jihad”.

“Your troops are nothing,” he said to Biya, noting that, “Even Nigerian soldiers couldn’t do anything to us.”

He then went on to state that: “Oh Paul Biya, if you don’t stop this, your evil plot, you will taste what has befallen Nigeria… Your troops cannot do anything to us,” Shekau said in Arabic.

In the video, Shekau praises his fighters “inside Camerounian soil” and calls on Biya to “repent”.

“If you do not, you will see what will come from Allah, the All-Powerful who has control over everything in respect of chastisement and calamity,” he says, waving his right index finger.