THE Department of the Security Service (DSS), on Tuesday finally declared the recent video purportedly released by deceased Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, as false.
The agency made this disclosure after a thorough voice analysis of the video of Shekau, where he had purportedly stated that he was alive contrary to claims by the military that he was killed in an operation.
According to a senior official who spoke on strict conditions of anonymity, the amateur cloned replica of Shekau was wrong on several grounds including the fact that his former appearances in former videos was done in a certain way.
The video was said to have been sent in for analysis and it was deduced that the movement of the purported Shekau's lips did not synchronise with the words as pronounced, apparently betraying a recorded message inefficiently manipulated.
The experts had stated that the clone's attempt to mimick Shekau voice during the opening stanza soon gave in, and the impostor reverted to his real voice, adding that the intonation was different buttressed by the fact that Abubakar Shekau does not drawl while talking.
Other differences spotted was that Shekau in previous video appearances would start with a recitation of a full verse of the Quran that sometimes could last up to five minutes, a sequence the stand-in Shekau did not observe.
A DSS source who spoke to newsmen said, "How did these add up to strengthen his case? One is dead and the other had left government long before the advent of Boko Haram. The video was just to create unnecessary panic in the public.
"The fact is that Abubakar Shekau was truly shot, critically injured and evacuated by his lieutenants to a conventional hospital outside Nigeria. It is only time that will tell if he survived but we know now is that the video is as fake as it gets."
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