Indication that the Boko Haram sect may after all be correct over the missing Nigerian Air Force fighter jet has emerged with the video released on Thursday that showed the beheading of a man identified as the pilot of the missing.
Also the video showed what looked like burnt parts of a plane, a further indication that the terrorist sect could have the capability to bring down aircraft.
The sect had Thursday claimed in a video that it brought down the fighter jet, but the Nigeria military denied such claim but maintained that the jet was merely missing and that efforts were on to find the aircraft and the crew members.
The 36-minute video also showed Boko Haram leader, Abu Shekau claiming he was still alive and that all areas won by the sect were still being governed with strict Sharia Law.
Shekau, in the early part of the video, said he was still alive in the video that showed members of the sect punishing alleged offenders by stoning them to death.
A man was accused of adultery was stoned to death; the hand of a young man accused of theft was amputated; the video also showed the whipping of a man and what appears to be a girl covered in the hijab.
The end part of the video showed parts of a crashed plane in the bush with a kneeling man in camouflage vest and a member of the sect hovering over him with an axe, which is later used in the beheading him.
The pilot, who said he was a wing commander in the Nigerian Air Force, said he was undertaking a mission in Kauri area of northeast Borno state on 11th September when the jet was shot down.
“We were shot down and our aircraft crashed,” he said, appearing to keep his composure throughout the ordeal. “
“To this day I don’t know the whereabouts of my second pilot,” he said.
