BOKO HARAM CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR ABUJA ATTACK

The terrorist group Boko Haram, has claimed responsibility for the Abuja bombing which killed at least 75 people and injured over 120.

Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekarau was qouted in a video obtained by the AFP news agency.

In the 28-minute clip, Mr. Shekau is dressed in military uniform and sits with a Kalashnikov resting on his left shoulder, the AFP reported. He spoke in both Arabic and Hausa.

“We are in your city but you don’t know where we are,” the terrorist leader quipped at President Goodluck Jonathan.

The Nyanya car bomb targeted ordinary working class people leaving early for work in Abuja’s city centre. Police and witnesses have spoken of a lone man driving a Volkswagen Gulf into the packed bus station and detonating the bomb-laden car.

The attack was followed hours later by the mass abduction of at least 129 girls from Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State.

The state authorities say 44 of the girls have now been joined with the families having escaped from their captors.

The video made no reference to the kidnappings.

SOURCE: PREMIUM TIMES