We Did Not Kill the 40 students of Mubi Polytechnic - Boko Haram

The insurgent group, Jamaatu ahlis Sunnah lil daawati wal jihad, also known as Boko Haram, has denied carrying out the attack that claimed the lives of over forty persons, most of them students of tertiary institutions in Mubi, Adamawa State last week.

"We have no business with students or student politics. If students are our target we would have killed them randomly on sight and in their school and not sneak on them in the creeping darkness in an area occupied by both students and residents," he said.
He accused the JTF of hiding the casualty figure suffered by the force in various confrontations with the sect.
"We have killed a lot of security personnel in the north especially in Yobe and Borno state, far morethan the lies the JTF sell to you, media," he said; adding that "a significant number of our brothers were killed but most of the people the JTF have killed have nothing to do with us. They are just youths in the wrong place at the wrong time."

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He said his sect was "not like the JTF that hide their casualties." "Yes, we suffered some casualties but I want to assure you that our structure, specialists and armpower are intact, and these crises will continue tillwe die," he said.

Qaqa alive, may have been captured A successful search operation in Kano, in September, by members of the JTF had led to thekilling of some of the sect's members and arrest of others. One of the arrested persons is believed to be Mr. Qaqa, according to top security sources.

The Boko Haram leader in his talk, like the evasivestatement of its overall leader, Abubakar Shekau, would however not confirm whether Mr. Qaqa hadbeen captured or not. "Our Imam has made it clear in his last video that Qaqa is alive, but I cannot answer your queries whether Qaqa is alive with us or with the security agencies," he said.

"I can assure you that we will not suffer any more defeat like we did in the past Insha Allah," he added