The leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar
Shekau, has described as “propaganda,” the claim by the Defence
Headquarters that he was killed early September in Kodunga, Borno State.
Shekau, in a new video obtained by Agence-France-Presse on Thursday, boasted that “nothing could kill him” until the day Allah stopped his breathing.
He also claimed in the 36-minute video
that Boko Haram fighters shot down the Nigerian Air Force fighter jet
which was reported missing three weeks ago by the Defence Headquarters.
Last week, the Director of Defence
Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, told a news conference in Abuja
that troops killed Shekau and that his corpse was identified by the
people of Kodunga.