Boko Haram denies cease-fire Agreement with FG

The leader of Islamist group, Boko Haram,
has denied entering into a cease-fire
agreement with the Federal Government
and endorsed an attack last weekend on a
school in Yobe State.
The sect leader, Abubakar Shekau, in a video
message sent to reporters, yesterday,
denied the claim by the Minister of Special
Duties, Kabiru Turaki, that a cease-fire was
reached on July 8 after talks with the
group's deputy leader, Mohammed Marwan.
"Let me assure you that we will not enter
into any truce with these infidels," Shekau
said. "We will not enter into any truce with
the Nigerian government."Boko Haram, whose name means "western
education is a sin" in Hausa language, has
killed thousands of people in gun and bomb
attacks since 2009 in Muslim north and
Abuja in its campaign to establish an Islamic
state in the country. Nigeria
The purported cease-fire took effect two
days after 20 students and a teacher were
killed in an attack on a secondary school in
Yobe. Eli Lazarus, a spokesman for the joint
military and police task force in Yobe, said
the attack was probably carried out by
Boko Haram.
"We believe in the massacre inflicted on the
secondary school in Mamudo and Damaturu
and other schools; we earlier warned that
we were going to burn all schools," Shekau
said. "They are schools purposely built to
fight Islam."
While Boko Haram doesn't attack "children
and young girls or old women," he said,
"teachers that teach Western education, we
are supposed to kill them in the presence of
their students."