Sect Denies Post-Ceasefire Attacks

Terrorist sect, Boko Haram is said to have denied involvement in the recent attacks purportedly carried out by the sect after it supposedly agreed to a ceasefire with Nigeria.

Foreign Affairs Minister, Aminu Wali stated on Monday, October 27 that members of the group had attributed the post-ceasefire attacks to “other rogues and criminals”, Reuters reports.

Wali said this while assuring that negotiations were still ongoing between Nigeria and Boko Haram to secure the release of the over 200 girls abducted by the group in April.

The minister stated further that the continued violence after the announcement of the deal would not jeopardize the talks to free the girls.

He told journalists after a meeting French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius:

"There are still negotiations going on and we expect a lot of progress to be made. Soon we will announce exactly where we are."

"Boko Haram are saying that those ones (attacks) were done by other rogues and criminals ... Kidnapping has being going on in Nigeria for some time ... by miscreants."

"But certainly this is not something that will threaten the negotiations going on. And we will make an effort also to bring back those that have been kidnapped."

The Nigerian government announced on October 17 that a ceasefire agreement had been reached with Boko Haram but the battle for supremacy between the country’s troops and the sect have continued.