We Do Not Have Any Ceasefire Agreement With Presidency; Boko Haram Commander

Leader of the dreaded Islamist militant group Boko Haram denied that it entered into a ceasefire agreement with the federal government or its agents.

Boko Haram commander also endorsed the heartless attack on a school in Yobe state last week, saying they are planning more attacks to be carried out soon...

According to Bloomberg, the commander Abubakar Shekau, in a video message sent to reporters denied claims by the Minister of Special Duties, Kabiru Turaki, that a ceasefire was reached on July 8 after talks with the group’s deputy leader, Mohammed Marwan.

“Let me assure you that we will not enter into any truce with these infidels,” Shekau said. “We will not enter into any truce with the Nigerian government.”

Boko Haram, whose name means “western education is a sin” in the Hausa language, has killed thousands of people in gun and bomb attacks since 2009 in the mainly Muslim North and Abuja in campaign to establish an Islamic state Nigeria, a country whose about 160 million people are split between Christians, predominant in the south, and Muslims, mostly in the north.

Reacting to the attack on the secondary school, Shekau said: “We believe in the massacre inflicted on the secondary school in Mamudo and Damaturu and other schools; we earlier warned that we are going to burn all schools. They are schools purposely built to fight Islam.”

Insisting that Western Education is a sin, Shekau added: “Teachers that teach Western education, we are supposed to kill them in the presence of their students."