A faction of the dreaded Boko Haram sect on Saturday denied they were involved in last week’s abduction of seven French nationals in Cameroon.
The group made this known in a press conference in Maiduguri, the Borno capital.
Sheikh Abu Muhammad Ibn Abdulazeez who spoke on behalf of the sect leader, Imam Abubakar Shekau, also said it was not part of the the ongoing violence within and around Maiduguri. ‘We have been hearing, of late, how people are linking us with the kidnap of the seven French nationals in Cameroon. We have nothing to do with the French people or their abductors’, he said.
‘The security or whoever that is trying to rescue the kidnapped French nationals should better look elsewhere, because it would amount to waste of time if they continue assuming we are involved’.
He restated their leader’s commitment to the ceasefire deal with the government.
He absolved their leader from the recently circulated leaflets in some parts of Maiduguri in which a group claimed that the leader had not discussed any truce deal with government.
Ibn Abdulazeez further said the sect may go out of its way to deal with media organization that publishes false news about their group.
He made reference to a Sun newspaper, a report that they demanded N26.6 billion at the meeting that preceded the ceasefire declaration.
“‘We take exception to that and also want to tell the world that we have never and will never make such demand from anyone,” he stressed.
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