[An Nahar] A purported front man for Islamist group Boko Haram... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or
Big Louie...
on Friday grabbed credit for separate attacks on a church and Christian mourners in Nigeria that killed around 20 people.
The front man who goes by the name Abul Qaqa also said the attacks were in response to an ultimatum he issued on Sunday giving Christians three days to leave the country's mainly Moslem north.
"We are responsible for the attacks in Mubi and Gombe," the purported front man, who has claimed to be speaking on behalf of Boko Haram numerous times in the past, told journalists in the northeastern city of Maiduguri by phone.
"We are extending our frontiers to other places to show that the declaration of a state of emergency by the Nigerian government will not deter us ... We can really go to wherever we want to go."
He called on the federal government to release all jugged Boko Haram members as a condition for attacks to stop.
"The attacks are part of our response to the ultimatum we gave to southerners to leave the north," he said.