“Here I am, alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my breath,”
Shekau said, adding that his group was “running our… Islamic caliphate” and administering strict sharia punishments.
“Nothing will kill me until my days are over… I’m still alive. Some people asked you if Shekau has two souls. No, I have one soul, by Allah,” he said, apparently reading from a script.
“It is propaganda that is prevalent. I have one soul. I’m an Islamic student.
“I’m the Islamic student whose seminary you burnt… I’m not dead,” he added,
apparently referring to the destruction of the group’s mosque in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, in 2009.
The shows Shekau firing an anti-aircraft gun into the air from the back of a truck
“We are running our caliphate, our Islamic caliphate. We follow the Koran… We now practise the injunctions of the Koran in the land of Allah,” he said.
“For any group to claim they shot it down is mere propaganda and rubbish,” Air Commodore Dele Alonge told AFP
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