The Joint Task Force, Operation Restore
Order, in Maiduguri, Borno State said intelligence report available to it
“revealed that Abubakur Shekau, the most dreaded and wanted Boko Haram
Terrorists leader may have died”.
The JTF in a statement by its spokesperson,
Sagir Musa, on Monday said Mr. Shekau “died of gunshot wound received in an
encounter with the JTF troops in one of their camps at Sambisa Forest on 30
June 2013.”
According to the statement, “Shekau was
mortally wounded in the encounter and was sneaked into Amitchide – a border
community in Cameroun for treatment which he never recovered.”
“It is greatly believed that Shekau might
have died between 25 July to 3 August, 2013. He was reported to have
masterminded the kidnap of the seven French citizens and that of the elder
statesman Alhaji (Dr) Shettima Ali Monguno in addition to many murders of
Islamic clerics in Northern Nigeria.