A 60-YEAR old businessman (name withheld) who alleged that his son was inducted into the Boko Haram sect and has killed several people in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, has handed over the child to men of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Hausari ward, requesting that he be killed.

The Guardian also learnt Sunday that the son, before leaving his parents’ house in April, had threatened to kill his father. Neighbours of the businessman and other residents of the area were said to have been baffled with the return of the son to the house to plead with his

father to allow him refuge from soldiers and members of the Youth Vigilance Group that are massively hunting for fleeing sect members from Kirenoa and Sambisa Games Reserves Forests destroyed training camps.

One of the neighbours said that after confessing all his (son) crimes, including how he participated in killing people and looting of banks, to his father, the old man declared that it was against his conscience to keep a killer-son in his home. According to him, “this was what informed the businessman to turn his son to men of JTF.”

He also told The Guardian that the father, who is a Kanuri man, after making up his mind against housing or keeping a killer-son, approached the office of the JTF and told them of the criminal involvement of his son in killing and robbery. It was gathered that the soldiers followed the father home to arrest the son, who was shot dead, while trying to escape arrest.

An eyewitness said: “When the young man was shot by the soldiers and was wreathing in pains, the old man only turned round to say Masha Allah (to God be the glory).”

The old man was also said to have decided against taking up the ill-gotten wealth of his son stashed away near the family house. “Before he was handed over to the soldiers, the young man had revealed to his father and family members that he possessed two cars and had millions of naira buried somewhere near the family house.

“But the no-nonsense and God- fearing father said he has no interested in his ill-gotten assets and has no intentions of inheriting them in obedience to Islamic injunctions because they are haram (forbidden).”

Confirming the incident Sunday in Maiduguri, spokesman of JTF, Lt. Col Sagir Musa, said that the businessmen took the courage to speak the truth about his son joining the Boko Haram sect, and at the same time harbouring them while attacking and bombing military and police formations in the metropolis.

He noted that with the recent appeals and sensitisations of residents and other community members by the JTF, the people, particularly parents and guardians, are responding to JTF’s appeals for support to fish out suspected Boko Haram terrorists among them.

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