This was made known via a twitter handle belonging to Abu Ward Al-Raqqawi, a member of Raqqa, who happens to be one of the founders and activists during the Syrian revolution and also one of the first persons to share Boko Haram’s audio on Twitter. According to Abu Ward Al-Raqqawi, the terrorist group, ISIS/ISIL will accept Boko Haram in an official video soon.
In a related news, an audio recording believed to be from Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau, the jihadists, who is responsible for a six-year militia campaign in northern Nigeria, said Boko Haram will be merging with ISIS to boost their terror strength.
According to a translation of the Arabic broadcast, Shekau said:
‘We announce our allegiance to the Caliph… and will hear and obey in times of difficulty and prosperity.’
The recording identified ‘the Caliph’ as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS and self-proclaimed caliph of the Muslim world.
The message means that ISIS now has a foothold in Nigeria, as well as controlling swathes of Iraq and Syria and parts of Egypt and Libya.
Baghdadi has already accepted pledges of allegiance from other jihadist groups in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan and north Africa as he seeks to expand their reign of terror.
You can listen to the allegiance pledge video below:
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