Nigerian extremist threatens to burn schools, kill teachers

Western education gets on his nerves

July 13, 2013 05:33 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 08:14 pm IST - LAGOS, Nigeria

The leader of Nigeria’s extremist Islamic sect threatens to burn down more schools and kill teachers. But he denies his fighters are killing children.

Islamist radical Abubakar Shekau speaks in a video released Saturday and denies his Boko Haram group is negotiating a peace with the Nigerian government.

But he says “School teachers who are teaching Western education? We will kill them! We will kill them.”

Attacks on schools have continued though Nigeria has deployed thousands of troops to put down an Islamic uprising posing the greatest threat in years to national security.

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