“Attack more Schools and Murder more Teachers,” Abubakar Shekau Tells Followers

Leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau,  who has debunked claims that a ceasefire had been agreed on with the government has called on followers to torch more schools and murder teachers weeks after 46 students were gunned down by militants in an attack on a school

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Abubakar Shekau said in a video message that Western-style education was a "plot against Islam."

"Teachers who teach Western education? We will kill them. We will kill them in front of their students, and tell the students to henceforth study the Koran," he said.
"We are going to burn down the schools if they are not Islamic religious schools for Allah."

Shekau insisted that his fighters killed children. "Our religion does not permit us to touch small children and women. We don't kill children".  

In recent weeks the group, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language, has increased its attacks on "soft" civilian targets after a state of emergency was declared in April and the government launched a military crackdown in the Northeastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, where Boko Haram is most active.