A UK news source reports that, based on an intelligence report it obtained, Boko Haram is currently in Zimbabwe, heading to South Africa.
ZimEye reported with reference to the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report that the South Africans had alerted their colleagues in Zimbabwe that the insurgents were in Matebeleland region (Bulawayo) en route to SA.
The Zimbabwean security forces were said to have been put on standby. South Africa’s intelligence service alleged that Boko Haram intended to take revenge for the xenophobic attacks, which also affected Nigerians.
Officers were reportedly mobilized at around 9pm on April 25 and stationed in the area of purported camps and along the streets.
Earlier this month, after South Africa had been seized by an anti-immigrant mood, the Islamist sect reportedly issued a 24-hour ultimatum to Pretoria threatening to extend their terror activities unless the violence stops.
The authenticity of the released video, and of the recent intelligence report, could not be ascertained.
Nevertheless, the news generated a lot of reaction online. One of the Nairaland users said that Boko Haram was no longer “a Nigerian thing”, but “an African thing”. The others called it “irony” that those guilty of mass murders of Nigerians were ready to “protect” them from South African xenophobes.
ZimEye reported with reference to the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report that the South Africans had alerted their colleagues in Zimbabwe that the insurgents were in Matebeleland region (Bulawayo) en route to SA.
The Zimbabwean security forces were said to have been put on standby. South Africa’s intelligence service alleged that Boko Haram intended to take revenge for the xenophobic attacks, which also affected Nigerians.
Officers were reportedly mobilized at around 9pm on April 25 and stationed in the area of purported camps and along the streets.
Earlier this month, after South Africa had been seized by an anti-immigrant mood, the Islamist sect reportedly issued a 24-hour ultimatum to Pretoria threatening to extend their terror activities unless the violence stops.
The authenticity of the released video, and of the recent intelligence report, could not be ascertained.
Nevertheless, the news generated a lot of reaction online. One of the Nairaland users said that Boko Haram was no longer “a Nigerian thing”, but “an African thing”. The others called it “irony” that those guilty of mass murders of Nigerians were ready to “protect” them from South African xenophobes.
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