“For me the end has come,” says Boko Haram leader in new video

(KANO)

Boko Haram pioneer Abubakar Shekau showed up on video without precedent for over a year on Thursday, dismissing bits of gossip about his passing yet seeming to flag his time accountable for the Nigerian jihadist gathering might reach an end.

In a message that contained none of the rebellious rant, insults and impugning of political pioneers of past recordings and will probably be deciphered as an affirmation of annihilation, the discouraged looking Shekau pronounced in the Hausa dialect: "For me the end has come".

"This is a message of welcome and delight for you to see my face," said Shekau, who in March 2015 had vowed faithfulness to the Islamic State bunch in a sound message.

"This is my craving: that whoever sees this will hear only welcome in the middle of me and you. Just Allah knows the rest, as you accepted (and) as you submitted. For me the end has come.

"This is just the message I need to send to you for you to comprehend this is positively I. This is the reason I did this.

"May Allah ensure us so that no fraud remains between us. May Allah shield us from the demon with the goal that he doesn't accomplish his wickedness among us.

– 'Goodbye video'? –

A military source in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, in upper east Nigeria, told AFP: "Viewing Shekau in this video, the message is clear: the amusement is over.

"For this haughty and pretentious terrorist to talk in such a docile and repressed tone indicates he has been trounced past his creative ability.

"It is a goodbye video."

Not at all like messages from the Islamists toward the end of 2014 and begin of 2015, which were smoothly altered and nearly looked like those of the Islamic State aggregate, the new video was inadequately shot.

It was likewise posted on YouTube as opposed to by means of Twitter records connected to IS supporters and sites utilized by kindred jihadists, which had gotten to be Boko Haram's favored medium of correspondence.

The whiskery Shekau, who looked slight, addressed his adherents before a lime green foundation, with the Boko Haram dark banner superimposed in unrefined representation.

He likewise makes no notice of the Islamic State or Islamic State in West Africa territory (ISWAP) and utilizations the gathering's unique name "Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad" or "Individuals focused on the engendering of the Prophet's teachings and jihad".

There was no sign of when or where the video was shot and Nigeria's military said it was attempting to decide its credibility.

"We are subjecting it to intensive measurable examination," they said in an announcement.

A few investigators give occasion to feel qualms about the credibility of the video, bringing up that Shekau's face is dull and addressing why the old Boko Haram symbol is being utilized rather than that of the Islamic State.

"In the event that the message is honest to goodness it raises some intriguing inquiries," Africa security authority Ryan Cummings said.

"It could flag maybe an adjustment in administration or even center for Boko Haram."

– Past strained –

In the video, Shekau alluded in the previous strained to the Borno state town of Gwoza, which Boko Haram overran in mid-2014 and pronounced a caliphate, alluding to it as "Darussalam" or "Home of Peace".

The town was later retaken in a military counter-hostile that has seen Boko Haram-controlled towns, towns and region seized back throughout the most recent year.

Boko Haram supply lines are said to have been pressed, forestalling them sourcing fuel for attempt at manslaughter assaults and routine battling, in spite of the fact that suicide bombings endure.

There have additionally been reports of warriors surrendering for absence of nourishment. Shekau himself is said to be sequestered from everything in the Sambisa Forest zone of Borno state, as of now focused by the military.

Nigeria has asserted a few times that Shekau has been killed following the begin of the destructive uprising in charge of no less than 17,000 passings since 2009, just for him to return in video messages.

The military trusts a few carbon copies have following remained in for him.

(Source: AFP)