Boko Haram releases video of abducted policemen, to be used as ‘slaves’

The Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, yesterday released a video, where he claimed to have abducted some Nigerian Police women, insisting he they would “serve as slaves,” to him and his members.

The video released through journalist Ahmad Salkida of Salkida.com, witnessed Shekau, claiming to have abducted several police women during one of his attacks.

The police women were alleged to have been abducted after an intense battle with a joint police/military convoy near Maiduguri-Damboa road.

The footage shows only still images of the abducted women, but no video. Shekau, holding a chewing stick (miswak) instead of a microphone, takes credit for the attack and in his usual manner, chides Nigerian security officials for lying that Boko Haram has been defeated. 
“I want to tell you that we are the one that attacked the convoy, here are the vehicles for all to witness, we are the ones that abducted the female police officers, in fact, they are senior female police officers,” he brags.  “What we did is nothing when compared to our women, children, and friends that have been wiped out or arrested for many years by the Nigerian government. We only abducted them to serve as slaves to us.”
The elusive terror leader gives a grim warning to moderate Islamic clerics, telling them to repent as in his words there is no way Christians should converge in mosques and Muslims in churches and work together.  He is referring to ongoing cooperation between Muslims and Christians, who, recognizing that Boko Haram often does not discriminate in attacking them, are in many places helping each other.
But Shekau challenges their mutual assistance as human beings.  “No prophet has ever practiced this,” he asserts. 
He also declares that the women his group abducted are fewer than 10 in number, and referred to them as “slaves”.