do anything to us”. Shekau, in military fatigues and green rubber boots, speaks for more than 17 minutes in the video, flanked by four masked Boko Haram fighters, two of whom hold the
militants’ black flags. Two others fighters were seen standing on the back of pick-up trucks fitted with heavy machineguns. Shekau fires an assault rifle into the air at the end of his address.
There was no indication when the video – entitled “Message to President Paul Biya of Cameroon” – was
shot or where. It also used the group’s preferred Arabic name “Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad” or “People committed to the propagation of the Prophet’s teachings and jihad.”Boko Haram roughly translates from the Hausa language widely spoken in northern Nigeria as “Western education
is forbidden.” In the video, Shekau praises his fighters “inside Cameroonian soil” and calls on Biya to “repent.” “If you do not, you will see what will come from Allah, the All- Powerful who has control over everything in respect of chastisement and calamity,” he says, waving his right
index finger. “Your troops are nothing. Even Nigerian soldiers couldn’t do anything to us.” He also calls on the people of Cameroon to “rebel against democracy and shun it.”
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