The factional leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has launched a scathing criticism on President Muhammadu Buhari over the lockdown order against social gatherings including mosques.
This statement by Shekau was published via an audio recording obtained by a newspaper, Hum Angle based in Abuja. Shekau further boasted that Boko Haram members are immune to the virus due to their religion.
“We thank God for the state of health we find ourselves in. That is the power of God, in today’s world but we pray five times, we fast, we amputate hands and we flog adulterers we are enforcing the law.
In the latter part of his message, he takes a dig at American president Donald Trump and three presidents in the Lake Chad region. He is heard insulting presidents of Nigeria, Chad and Niger. The message is interspersed with background track with intermittent sound of gunshots.
“We thank you God for this pandemic. We thank you that it (the pandemic) has surfaced in the times of Trump, the abnormal one. The time of Idris Deby (uses an expletive) and the time of Buhari and Mahamadou Issoufou, the one who does the bidding of the French,” he calls on people to repent and earn their praise if they don’t want to be cursed.
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