Niger’s President, Mahamadou Issoufou, was also warned for commiserating with France after the recent Islamist militant attacks against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
“Muhammad Yusuf (Mahamadou Issoufou), is that your job? Ah, ah, ah! Muhammad Yusuf, you will see. President of Niger, you will see,” he said.
– Flag burnt –
The video came after testimony from people fleeing Baga that four villages some 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the town had been visited by Islamist fighters and their residents told to leave.
Security analysts have said the capture of Baga puts the militants in a strategic position to push south towards Maiduguri, the state capital of Borno State, where the group was founded in 2002.
Boko Haram was forced out of Maiduguri in 2013 after the declaration of emergency rule but has in the last six months captured dozens of towns in the far northeast, effectively encircling the city.
It has been feared that they want to recapture Maiduguri to form the centre of the hardline Islamic state it has been fighting to establish.
Shekau, who has previously declared some captured towns part of Boko Haram’s caliphate, burnt the green and white Nigerian flag to cheers of “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) and celebratory gunfire.
“This is the replacement of the Nigerian flag,” he said, waving the Islamists’ black standard.
He also said in English: “Nigeria is dead, (the) constitution is dead.”
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