Boko Haram does not behead Nigerians - Amaechi
– Transport
minister Rotimi Amaechi had said that Boko Haram does not behead Nigerians –
The former Rivers state governor believes only ISIS engages in decapitating hostages
– Videos released by Boko Haram however have frequently
shown beheading
incidents The transport minister and former governor of Rivers state, Rotimi
Amaechi, has said that members of the Boko Haram terrorist group do not engage
in beheading Nigerians. 
He made the
controversial statement while speaking with Gbenga Aruleba during an African
Independent Television (AIT) programme, Focus Nigeria, on Friday.
Amaechi, who was speaking on the ongoing
strife and killings in Rivers state, alleged that the Rivers people were being
beheaded without naming their alleged assailants.
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Amaechi is apparently unaware that Boko Haram has released beheading videos The
minister, who boasted that there was no killings during his tenure as governor,
wondered how a human being was capable of killing a fellow human.
According to
him, the people who behead human beings are members of the ISIS sect, and not
the Boko Haram sect.
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Facebook Share on Twitter Boko Haram has copied the brutal beheading tactics of
ISIS “The kind of killing now did not happen the time I was the governor.
Beheading people? How can a human being behead his fellow human being?” Amerchi
said.
“The people
that do it are people in ISIS not even Boko Haram, Boko Haram don’t behead
people. “The difference between what is happening in Rivers state and what Boko
Haram is doing is because Boko Haram is almost decimated, and what the police
is doing in Rivers state is similar to what Goodluck Jonathan did with Boko
Haram; ‘oh I don’t give a damn if they want to kill them they can kill
themselves.
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from book to insurgency victims Amaechi’s statement about Boko Haram has been
met with shock as the terror group has released several beheading videos.
Eight months ago, a video was published online
which showed a Nigerian soldier being executed by the jihadists.
The
unfortunate warrior was beheaded by the terrorists with a knife after an army
patrol was ambushed in Borno state.
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