A faction of Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), has explained its reason for executing Hauwa Leman, the second International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) worker to be killed by the group in as many months.
Leman was captured alongside Saifura Khorsa, another Red Cross staff, and Alice Loksha, a UNICEF staff, after the dreaded group killed three other aid workers and eight Nigerian soldiers in Rann, Borno State on March 1.
Khorsa was executed in a Boko Haram hideout and the video of the execution was received by the Red Cross in September.
But in a short statement, ISWAP explained its decision to execute Leman.
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The terror group said, “We have kept our word exactly as we said, by killing another humanitarian worker, Hauwa Leman, who is working with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that were abducted during a raid on a military facility in Rann, Kala Balge in March 2018.
“Saifura and Hauwa were killed because they are considered as Murtads (apostates) by the group because they were once Muslims that have abandoned their Islam, the moment they chose to work with the Red Cross, and for us, there is no difference between Red Cross and UNICEF.
“If we see them, we will kill the apostates among them, men or women, and chose to kill or keep the infidels as slaves, men or women.”
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