MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Nigeria’s army is posting a photographic collage of 100 wanted Boko Haram militants that features the shadowy leader whom they claim to have killed on at least three occasions.

The poster pasted onto walls this week includes elderly men and boys who appear to be minors. No names are attached since most images are screen grabs from videos seized in raids on Boko Haram camps or published on the Internet by the Islamic extremists.

No reward is offered for requested information as the military hopes that people will offer information as a public service.

The center of the collage features leader Abubakar Shekau cradling an AK-47 assault rifle.

Nigeria’s military has claimed that Shekau is dead at least three times in the past three years. In 2013, Nigeria offered the equivalent of $250,000 for information leading to his arrest. The United States has a $7 million bounty on Shekau’s head.

Shekau has not appeared in a video since he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group in March. In previous videos he has grinned and said how much he enjoys killing.

He has led the extremist uprising that began in 2009 after police, angered by Boko Haram’s beheading of police officers’ wives and children, retaliated by bombing the mosque compound of then-leader Mohammed Yusuf in Maiduguri city. They killed about 700 sect members before capturing and killing Yusuf.


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