Insurgent group, Jama'atu AhlisSunnah Lidda'awati Waljahad, popularly known as Boko Haram have
opened a new Twiter account with the handle @Alurwa_Alwuthqa in a bid to strengthen Public Relation campaign via Twitter, which is aimed at possibly winning 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.
'Photo of Cubs nation..Generation of conquest and victory, God willing' The handle twitted in Arabic, captioning the photos of the children soldiers.Investigations by NE revealed that the account started twitting on the 18th of January with a message about Baga attack has close to 4,000 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.
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