Why Boko Haram Executed Five Aid Workers; Nigerians Outraged |The Source

By Uche Mbah

The news, Wednesday evening, of the execution of five Aid Workers by suspected members of the world designated terrorist group, Boko Haram, in one fell swoop, has outraged Nigerians.

The news came barely 24 hours after the Senate of the Federal Republic, passed a resolution asking the Service Chiefs to step aside.

In the heart rending video which has gone viral, the sect which identified their victims as aid workers, working for various Non-Governmental Organizations, NGOs said they killed them because their Government did not care about their lives.

In the video, five hooded men, armed with guns, stood behind five blindfolded  men,  who were kneeling down in front of them.

The video lasted for 35 seconds.

An unidentified voice spoke in Hausa saying: “This is a message to the infidels who are using you to cheat and turn our people into unbelievers. You should know that your employers are just using you to achieve their aims, but they don’t care about you. That’s why whenever we abduct you, they don’t care about you.

“Our advice for you is that you should repent and turn to God, or else we shall continue to waylay and abduct you all in all the routes that you traverse.

“And if you don’t heed to our warning, what is about to happen to these five aid workers would also be fate that will befall you too.”

At the end of the speech, one of the gunmen ordered others to fire. They murdered them in cold blood.

The aid workers were abducted by the sect last month in Monguno. Recently, the sect released a video of the main, desperately pleading to the Government to negotiate their lives.

The identities of the executed men were yet to be known, but an aid was reported to have said he recognised one of them as his colleague.

As the time of writing this, neither the Military, nor the Government has reacted to the executions.