Nigerian troops might have scored a strategic victory in the current battle against terrorists operating in the North-East on September 17.
During a desperate attempt by the insurgents to capture Konduga in their delusion to eventually march on and capture Maiduguri, the man, who had been mimicking the late Abubakar Shekau in recent videos might have been finally killed.
According to senior military and intelligence sources, “it is getting more certain that the terrorists’ commander who has been mimicking Shekau in those videos is the one killed in Konduga on September 17, 2014.”
Sources said the suspected demise of the Boko Haram leader was responsible for the scattering of the sect members in different independent locations in neighbouring countries, especially in Cameroun in recent days.
A security source did not deny the suspicion but cautioned: “The process of confirming that the dead body we have is the same as that character, who has been posing as Shekau is ongoing. He is definitely a prominent terrorist commander. I don’t want to say anything about this yet please.”
Another high-ranking military source insisted that the resemblance was too striking to be a co-incidence. They cited his facial marks, beards and teeth, apart from the recovery by the Nigerian troops, of some of the armoured vehicles and Hilux jeeps that had featured in previous videos of the prime suspect.
The officers assured that the Defence Headquarters would soon address the nation after full investigation of the latest discovery.
