Boko Haram Launches PR Campaign, Opens Twitter Account

Insurgent group, Jama’atu
Ahlis Sunnah Lidda’awati Waljahad,
popularly known as Boko Haram has
launched a new Public Relation
campaign via twitter meant to win
people over to its side.

The twitter handle,Alurwa Alwuthqa,
which claim to be the mouthpiece of
the group, announced the sect’s
capture of Monguno while also
showing pictures of child soldiers in
training.

The account communicating in Arabic which started twitting on the 18th of January with a message about Baga attack has over 3,000 followers.

Though there is no video of the group’s leader Abubakar Shekau on the account, there is a video of an
interview with one Abu Mus’ab
Albarnawi who is said to be the
spokesman of the group.

Both the interviewer and interviewee
in the video had their faces blurred.
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters
has not issued any comment on the
twitter account and its content as at
the time of filing this report.

Source: Daily Trust

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