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Boko Haram has issued a 72-hour ultimatum to the Nigerian authorities implicit 416 captives successful its custody.
The violent radical had asked for ransom for the merchandise of the captives, abducted successful Borno State.
In a video seen by DAILY POST, a masked spokesperson of the panic group, speaking successful Hausa, warned that nonaccomplishment to conscionable the group’s demands wrong the stated deadline would pb to the sidesplitting of a ample fig of those being held, including women and children.
The radical claimed it is holding 416 captives and insisted that urgent steps indispensable beryllium taken earlier the clip runs out.
The spokesperson said successful Hausa, “We are Jama’atu Ahlis-Sunna Lidwatu Wal-Jihad nether Imam Abu. Today being 19th April 2026, we are giving retired a caller connection to Borno South Youth Alliance (BOSYA) besides to the Nigerian authorities who are not our government.
“This is our archetypal and past message. We springiness you 72 hours if you bash not conscionable our demands we volition stock retired the pistillate and children to antithetic locations. All of them. You person made your decision, and we person made ours. We instruct you, successful the sanction of Allah, not to transcend the fixed time.”
Boko Haram did not specify its demands successful the video.
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