Boko Haram beheads ‘police spies’ in new video

Boko Haram has released a new video showing the beheading of two men it accused of acting as spies for security agencies.

The men, identified as Dawoud Muhammad and Muhammad Awlu, said they were from Baga, a border town in Borno.

The sect took over Baga but the military has recovered the town, which President Goodluck Jonathan visited on Thursday.

The six-minute footage called ‘Harvest of Spies’, showed masked militants with long knives standing behind Muhammad and another man who knelt on the ground.

It was posted on Twitter by the SITE intelligence group.

Muhammad confessed that he was a farmer from Baga and that a police officer paid him N5, 000 to spy on the sect in.

“We went to see a man from Mijka and a police officer that was with him. The officer gave me N5,000 in exchange of spying those who live there,” he said.

With its use of elaborate opening titles and sound effects like heavy breathing before the beheading, the video is different from previous ones released by Boko Haram.

Boko Haram previously published only one beheading and it was that of a pilot whose plane went missing in September.

Since 2009 when it unleashed its violent campaign, Boko Haram has wreaked untold havoc, particularly in northeastern communities across Nigeria.