Nigerian Army has said that Abubakar Shekau’s allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria clearly indicates that he may soon surrender or he will be killed in the on-going military operations in the north east.
Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman said this in an interview with Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation in Maiduguri.
He said “With or without allegiance to ISIS, the days of Shekau has already been numbered, because all the insurgents’ training camps and hideouts in the affected North-East have been destroyed, while the terrorists have been routed from their camps and hideouts; and those who have escaped our “condone and search operations” in the Sambisa Forest and the Lake Chad Basin Areas, are on the run, abandoning their operational vehicles, arms and ammunitions.
“Shekau’s public allegiance to IS clearly indicates that he may surrender or be killed in the ongoing joint military operations of Nigeria and three neighbouring countries of Chad, Cameroon and Niger,” Usman added.
Last Saturday, Abubakar Shekau pledged allegiance to ISIS in a video released online.
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