Terrorist group release footage boasting of killings

One crisis to another is the living state of Nigerians as insecurity continues to plague the country. And terrorism still lies another threat to religious peace within the geo-population.

The Islamic State (IS) group is believed to have unveiled footage showing the execution of Christian civilians within the northeastern region of Nigeria, Borno State as per reports by the BBC.

The video is said to bear footage of one of the terrorists, speaking in the Hausa language during the execution, and is believed to have carried out the execution to avenge the killing of the group’s leaders that had taken place in the Middle East earlier in the year.

The video was published on an IS-linked news outlet which showed three groups of captives in civilian clothes.

The time and location of the execution as shown in the video is yet to be identified and the Nigerian authorities have refused to speak on the video at the moment.

IS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi died in a February nighttime raid orchestrated by the United States Special Forces in Syria. The operation, in which Kurdish forces also took part in, was organized in the Idlib region where Abu Ibrahim’s own predecessor Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died in 2019 in a similar raid.

The IS militants operate in the Lake Chad region under the name Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), along with another its sister group, the infamous Boko Haram.

Shekau’s death left in the Bokoharam group a huge division amongst its ranks that saw some of its commanders pledge loyalty to ISWAP with the division creating a major shift in Nigeria’s conflict.