Three members of the deadly Boko Haram sect who partook in
recent attacks and killings around towns and villages of Borno
State were arrested yesterday at a refugee camp in Maiduguri,
Borno.

They were said to be faking to be part of the Internally Displaced
Persons, IDPs from Baga, Leadership reports.
According to the Civilian-JTF operatives deployed to provide security
for the arriving displaced people of Baga after the terrorists attacks
last week, the arrested men had joined other IDPs to enter Maiduguri
with the intention of spying for their colleagues in the bush.
Giving his confession, one of them, Gambo Muhammed, a 27-year-
old native of Gaya in Kano State, said he was forcefully conscripted
into the sect through diabolic means, adding that he was never a
lover of the sect.

Muhammed, who was fished out by another conscripted but non-
combatant Boko Haram member who was helping the Civilian-JTF to
identify members of the sect that may have disguised as IDPs, said
he had only killed six people since he was forced to join Boko Haram
last year.

He explained that he was forced to join the Boko Haram sect after
some members of the group threatened him and several others to kill
them and their family if they refuse to pick up arms and fight
against non-members.

“ I and over 40 other young men were forced to become Boko Haram
members in Baga town when Boko Haram gunmen came to round us
up in the mosque.
“When we were taken to a bush camp near Konduga we were given
some water that was used to wash off some Arabic inscription from a
wooden tablet, and we were also given a fresh date that was rubbed
with some substance to eat. After eating mine, I felt some internal
heat, and then I began to sweat profusely; that was all that I could
remember and I became a full member of the sect doing everything
other members were doing including killing people.

“I killed only six people…and I swear it was not more than that
figure; in fact I was even forced to do it when we went to Konduga
and we wanted to forcefully take some people’s livestock of which
the owners said they won’t allow us go with them even if it was for
the purpose of doing “God’s job”. So, one of our leaders asked me to
step out with my gun and ordered me to kill the people and he
warned that if I refused to do as commanded, they would shoot me.
So I had to shoot them all,” he said.

According to the Provost of the Civilian-JTF, Lawan Zanna, who led
the team that arrested the three Boko Haram suspects, his team had
so far arrested about 270 of such Boko Haram members who would
join the IDPs to the camp either to escape being arrested or as spies.
He added that the three arrested Boko Haram members are still
being investigated with a view to revealing where some of their
members who may have sneaked into the state capital could be
fished out.

Last weekend, Boko Haram launched an attack in Baga and 18
Nigerian female soldiers were reportedly kidnaped.
Boko Haram militants were said to have razed at least 16 Borno
State towns and villages in another series of multiple attacks.
However, the coordinator of the National Information Centre, Mr.
Mike Omeri, said Nigerian troops have launched a serious offensive
against the deadly Boko Haram sect in an attempt to reclaim Baga
and other parts of Borno State overrun by the insurgents.

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