The sect said that if truly the JTF had killed certain people, they must have been civilians and not its men.
Colonel Victor Ebhaleme, the field operations officer of the JTF in Borno had announced that 20 sect members were killed while a soldier died and two others sustained wound in a gun duel with the terrorists.
“We got intelligence reports that some suspected Boko Haram terrorists were having a meeting at a particular location in the metropolis,” he said. “While we approached the venue of their meeting, the terrorists opened fire on the JTF, leading to the killing of 20 of the terrorists. We lost one soldier while two others sustained injuries.”
However, on Monday, spokesman of Boko Haram, Abu Qaqa, speaking in a teleconference to journalists in Maiduguri, capital of Borno, said that his fighters were not meeting at the location where the Military announced that they were killed.
“They only succeeded in killing civilians,” Qaqa said. “Twenty of us cannot risk sitting in a volatile place to hold a meeting ... It is not possible.”
The Boko Haram Islamist sect has since 2009 been at the forefront of a “delightful” serial war against the government, Christians and security agencies.
In an email last month, it promised that “Christians in this country should either accept Islam, which is the only true religion, or they will not know peace again,” adding that it would “continue to hunt for government officials wherever they are” and “continue to attack the residences of government officials and security operatives the same way they keep attacking us and demolishing the houses occupied by our members despite being aware that we only rent such buildings.”
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