Eight members of the terror group, Boko Haram, have denounced their membership
of the sect, in a town around Mussa in Askira/Uba Local Government Area of
Borno State.
According to the Chairman of the youth vigilance group in the town, Apagu
Istifanus, the eight men claimed they are tired of killing innocent
persons.
Istifanus, who spoke with journalists on the telephone, said the eight were
arrested in Mussa and after interrogations, they confessed their membership of
the sect and stated their readiness to renounce
their membership and rejoin their families.
PUNCH reports that he said:
4pm on Thursday and when we interrogated them, they said they were tired, they
did not want to wage Jihad again and we handed them over to the military in
Mubi, Adamawa State.”
arrested members of the sect were from Gwoza town, the headquarters of Gwoza
Local Government Area.Another member of the youth vigilance group from the area, who spoke on
condition of anonymity to journalists, said the eight were nabbed at a remote
village of Mussa in Askira-Uba LGA in the southern part of Borno State.
Meanwhile, residents of Miringa town of Biu LGA of the state have decried the
locking down of the town by the military authorities for about six days.
They lamented that they had been made to go hungry as they were made to go
without food, water and other basic necessities of life.
A resident of the town, Idris Musa, told journalists on the telephone that they
were locked up in their homes since last Saturday, without prior notice and not
allowed to replenish basic necessities.
Musa adeed:
water and other essential needs of life. It was only on Wednesday they gave us
time to go out from 8am to 12noon and today, Friday, they allowed us to go for
Friday prayers.”