Yusuf Bello| A new video dated December 8, showing the execution of two Nigerian soldiers and a policeman masked men believed to be members of the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP), has emerged online.
Those killed in the video were believed to have been abducted at a fake checkpoint in Benisheikh, a village seventy kilometers west of Maiduguri, Borno State capital.
The video showed three tortured security personnel with their hands tied with their identity cards and introduced themselves as a mobile police sergeant, as well as a sergeant and a private soldier of the Nigerian Army.
Before the killing, a masked man backing a river believed to be around the Lake Chad area spoke in Hausa language.
He threatened that the group would carry out ‘massive attacks’ on military formations and ambushes on the highways in the region.
He said, “We are saying to the soldiers of Nigeria, we will never spare those fighting people practicing the religion of Allah. Because of that, we shall attack your barracks, wallahi we shall block you on your roads. The story is, what you hear is not what you see; what lies ahead is tougher and uglier than this, Allahu Akbar.”
Shortly before they were killed, the security personnel narrated that they were abducted from a village located few kilometers to Maiduguri.
The police and army authorities have yet to confirm the authenticity of the video and identities of the slain men.
Last week, ISWAP had in a statement claimed that it abducted 14 “prisoners” on the same road, six of which were soldiers, two staff of the Red Cross and six others.
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