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| Members of the 123 Special Forces Battalion against Boko Haram |
A video posted on the site of Amaq News Agency (Arabic: وكالة أعماق الإخبارية) shows members of an Islamic terrorist group allegedly executing two Nigerian Army officers and a policeman after been abducted at a fake Check points mounted at in Benisheikh, a village seventy kilometers west of Maiduguri.
Amaq News Agency is a news outlet linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. It is often the "first point of publication for claims of responsibility by the group.
Names of the 3 men killed are:
1. Sergent Christopher Omogbai (Nigerian Police, Mopol serving in Yenagoa)
2. Sergeant Yakubu Bandi (Nigerian Army, 123 Special Forces Battalion)
3. Yusufu Suleiman - 5 Battalion, Port Harcourt
See Video of the execution below.
In the video, posted on Sunday 8th of December 2019, the terrorists said they are against all those who are against the worshipers of Allah, and that what they have seen is "small" compared to the terror they will still unleash. They said they will waylay the soldiers on the road, and they will bring havoc/war to their barracks.
The Nigerian Army is yet to respond to the video.
Written by Emdee David
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