Boki haram commander shekau killed at last?

There is tension in the security circles over the reported killing
of the leader of the Boko Haram Islamic sect, Abubakar
Shekau, by operatives of the Joint Task Force in Borno State.
The spokesman of the JTF, Col. Sagir Musa, said in a
statement on Monday that the Boko Haram leader died of
gunshot wounds he sustained during the invasion of the
Sambisa Forest.
Curiously, the Director of Defence Information, Brig. Gen Chris
Olukolade, referred our correspondent to the headquarters of
the JTF in Borno State, when he was contacted for further
confirmation.
Ordinarily, the killing of the most wanted terror leader, who
has a $7m bounty on his head, would have been celebrated by
all security agencies but the situation appears to be different
in the absence of evidence of his death.
But Col. Musa insisted that intelligence reports at the disposal
of the JTF showed that: “Abubakar Shekau, the most dreaded
and wanted Boko Haram terrorist, may have died.”
The JTF spokesman said the Boko Haram leader was seriously
wounded in the attack at Sambisa on June 30, 2013, by the
special forces and was taken to a border community in the
nation’s border with Cameroun, identified as Amitchide, for
treatment.
He said Shekau did not recover from the gunshot wounds he
sustained at the Sambisa Forest.
The statement said, “Shekau was mortally wounded in the
encounter and was sneaked into Amitchide – a border
community in Cameroun for treatment, from which he never
recovered. It is greatly believed that Shekau might have died
between July 25 and August 3, 2013."
Col. Musa added that a video released purportedly by the Boko
Haram leader on August 13, 2013, was a deceit by a member
of the sect to convince members to continue with the
insurgency. He urged members of the sect to lay down their
arms and accept the Federal Government’s offer of dialogue.
Musa added that the video was “dramatised by an imposter to
hoodwink the sect members to continue with terrorism and to
deceive undiscerning minds”.
Is Shekau truly dead? Can we believe the JTF this time?