A group, the Coalition for Women Advancement in Africa (COWAA), has described the new video which showed a purported new Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, urging his followers to surrender to the military as a major victory for the military in the war against insurgency in the North East.
Addressing a press conference in Abuja yesterday, Executive Vice President of the group, Mrs. Jummai Samuel Pukat, said the group has recruited the services of forensic experts to determine the authenticity of the video. She, however, called on the Nigeria army to sustain its onslaught against the remaining terrorists, who may want to continue with their nefarious crimes.
“We have authoritatively confirmed the video after subjecting it to scientific scrutiny and wish to say it is authentic and represents the reaction of the group to the ongoing merciless onslaught being carried out by the Nigerian Army.
As mothers of the nation we are calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to see to an amnesty for those who are ready to lay down their arms and encourage the Nigerian Army to flush out every criminal elements or factional group that fails to utilize the opportunity of the declaration of surrender by Abubakar Shekau who has been known over the years as the leader of the group.
In the same spirit of a new Nigeria devoid of the killings, kidnappings and terrorism that Nigerians were elated to view the video of their longest nightmare in the person of Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau almost grovelling as he declared that ‘I am finished’. ”
Even without uttering those welcome words about being finished, which we believe equally applies to the terror group with which he brought this country down to its knees, the body language of the Shekau we saw in the video was that of a man who together with his minion are receiving the drubbing of their lives from the Nigerian Army ably supported by the Air Force,” she said
